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What Is Unsmoked Yerba Maté

Unsmoked yerba maté refers to the method of drying the plant cut and leaf cut of the harvested yerba maté. Unsmoked yerba maté is dried using a "tumble" technique and hot dry air blown on the leaves.

What Is A Gourd

The traditional gourd or "Maté" is used for drinking yerba maté and is grown from various types of plants and trees. Namely from the squash family. In Argentina and other heavily consuming yerba maté counties the gourd has taken on the role of a traditional drinking vassal. The gourd or "Maté" is the oldest known devise for consuming yerba maté.    

What Is A Bombilla

The Bombilla (bom-bee-ah) is a traditional straw with a spring or whole like filter on the opposing end of the drinking tip. The Bombilla is used traditionally to drink yerba maté tea with a plant gourd.

The purpose of this device is to allow the individual to drink yerba maté tea in the traditional South American style.

How To Drink Yerba Maté With A French Press

Making yerba maté in a French press is fast and one of the most popular ways to brew yerba maté in the United States. You make yerba maté just like the way you would other teas or coffee's in your French press.

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Curing & Packaging Yerba Maté

There are 2 major techniques of curing yerba maté in the world.

The first and most commonly commercially processed method is fire dried:

Map Of Yerba Maté Farming & Production In South America

This map of South America details the general geographic regions of yerba maté cultivation. Included is wild yerba maté and domestic cultivation of yerba maté Ilex paraguariensis  in South America. The yerba maté plant grows best in subtropical environments of Northern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and parts of Southern Brazil. Each region has developed different "methods" or styles of growing, curing and marketing yerba maté.

Yerba Maté Plant Cultivation (Wild, Bio-Dynamic, Organic & Chemical Based)

Yerba maté grows in South America wild and is widely cultivated throughout central South America.

Wild Yerba Maté: The wild yerba maté plant is a species of holly in the aquifoliaceae family native to subtropical South America namely Northern Argentina, Southern Paraguay, Western Uruguay and Southern Brazil.

Bio-Dynamic farming yerba maté: At this time we do not know of any bio-dynamic farms growing yerba maté.

Cultivating conventional yerba maté:  Most of the global production of yerba maté is grown by using fossil fuel based fertilizers. 

 

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To start drinking yerba maté with your new yerba maté tisane blend it helps to know what options are available. There are many ways or methods to consume yerba maté tea. We have started a list of the more known methods. In general you can brew yerba maté using the same processes as you would any coffee or tea. These include a verity of accessories:

  • Official Power It® Method.
  • Traditional Gourd & Bombilla.
  • Electric Coffee Pot.
  • French Press.
  • Sun brewed.
  • Tea Ball.
  • Tea Bags.
  • Open Pot or Pan.
  • Mash or Non-Filtered.
  • One Cup Brewers and many more...

There are 2 major differences in the effects your body will have from the yerba maté stimulation. The first being a stimulation from consuming the yerba maté like you would coffee. The second being more like a cup of tea. The more yerba maté you drink the more you feel.

The measurements vary depending on how much energy you would like to expose your body to. Much in the same way you measure ground coffee you can take the same steps with yerba maté. So a larger amount of loose leaf will make a much stronger cup. Often we recommend to taste, but we regularly brew a full basic or about 45 grams of yerba maté in one coffee pot (12 cup). In traditional terms this measurement would be close to a full gourd.

After the tea has brewed you can add organic sugar, honey, soy, milk and or many other fun flavors. Yerba maté is actually quite easy to manipulate to taste by adding other spices, stimulates and herbs. We have done this in our yerba maté energy line including organic guayusa, organic hibiscus and more. The possibilities are endless.

Below is a list of even more detailed explanations on how you can start drinking Mendo Maté® yerba maté:

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