Organic Fresh Green Yerba Mate Loose

I was very nervous to try this tea. I have stood by the notion that I do not like green yerba mate for a long time now… and this is pure, fresh, unflavored and unfettered green yerba mate. I was certain I wouldn’t like it.

But I was wrong. This is really refreshing. It tastes really good. It doesn’t have that overly earthy quality that I normally associate with yerba mate. It isn’t smoky. It is slightly sweet and just barely vegetative. Very pleasant. And invigorating!

This is a pick me up tea as I lost an hour of sleep last night due to that stupid thing called “Daylight Savings Time.” I was horribly frustrated as I forgot to set my clock in my room an hour ahead and so I woke up thinking it was 9:30 and I would have the house to myself when it was actually 10:30 and my parents would be coming home soon from church.

Regardless, I am quite tired and I had a mate latte at a coffee shop in Burlington the other day and it was quite lovely, so I recreated it. I brewed up the mate at 195 for 5 minuets, added some maple syrup for sweetness, and topped it with some frothed soy milk. The result is an easy to make and delicious (and healthy AND a great pick me up, the perfect package :D) latte. It’s really good and I think this will be my pick me up drink of choice from now on!

I’ve come to the unfortunate realization that all of the teas on my list from yesterday won’t be able to be reviewed because I had to go to a dinner thingy last night and I stayed for much longer than expected, and I have homework to do today :( AND I have orchestra rehearsal. Meh. Regardless, I’ll try to get some of them done.

So, I had tried a few yerba mate blends before, and even got a surprise gourd, straw and pound of mate from some friends overseas a few years back. Admittedly at the time I was very politely ungrateful and all “My friends moved to Argentina and all I got was this nasty bitter dusty tea!” Though not out loud, of course. Turns out I just hated the type of mate. This stuff is much better.

This green mate is MUCH better than the dry dusty brown stuff I am used to. It has a bitterness still, but much more subdued, and it can stand on its own or particularly well with a bit of sweetener. I also tend to toss a bag of lipton lemongrass ginger tea in with this. Yeah, I said it. Trust me, (or better yet try it) – it’s good.

I’ve tried and tried but couldn’t enjoy the smoked stuff. Several of my friends developed a taste for it, but I suspect that has more to do with the buzz than the flavor. This has the same buzz but doesn’t taste like chewing a wet cigar out of an ashtray.

This has no aroma and it’s flavor is mellow but pleasant. A little sweet.

SIPDOWN! Almost time to go pay rent! Ouch. That always hurts. But this tea will get me through!

This isn’t so fresh anymore thanks to me. But now at least I can say I have a better idea of what unflavored green mate tastes like. It’s not bad! I think I actually like it. Thanks to LiberTEAS for providing this generous sample! I probably still prefer the flavored variety, but I really did want to try it unflavored. Another bucket list tea checked off! :)

Quite good semi-sweet well balanced mate :)

I´m from Uruguay and yerba mate is like drinking water here. When you prepare it as a cup of tea it´s called mate cocido. It also can be drunk in a mate which is a recipient made out of wood or glass in which you put the yerba and little water.
I really like it but it can be a bit bitter when you first try it.

David Duckler has me thinking about how incense and tea interact, this tisane is a good example. Usually it’s a bit grassy and bitter on its own (due to my forgetting about my drink for a good hour or so), but when I burned some Dragon’s Blood incense today to scare off the bugs, the taste took on oddly medicinal and sweet taste. I needed a honey cough drop after forsaking sleep and it tastes like my evening mate. Very interesting…however, I am too tired to ponder the specifics of this. A repeat experiment (I certainly have enough work to get through) is something I look forward to trying.

Really nice fresh, green flavor. Very green tea-like. And supposedly they use a smoke free drying process so you wont be getting any unhealthy carcinogens polluting your mate and affecting the taste.

Maté Factor is my favorite brand of yerba maté. It has a fresh, green, healthy taste to it. Other maté on the US market is stale tasting. It is very versatile in hot and cold drinks. My favorite is cold steep it for 3 hours and add organic juice concentrate (peach, lemon, etc…) and a little honey or agave to make a refreshing, cold, natural, energizing drink!

This doesn’t taste like the Yerba Mate I am used to (which is probably a good thing). It doesn’t have nearly the smoky/earthy quality that mate normally has. No bitterness at all. It tastes kind of like mate crossed with green tea. This is something I will actually drink for the flavor, not just the effects of the mate. Prepared with stevia.

this is great tea!!! I drink it every day. Good weight loss program! :)

I drink this yerba mate almost every day. Although I sometimes prefer other brands, Mate Factor is very consistent in it’s flavor and has a robust vegetale taste that is not astringent. It soothes the taste buds, and is definitely mellow in comparison to other yerba mates. It can hold a consistent flavor for about 4 or 5 steeping sessions depending on the amount of yerba in the gourd. If using a larger gourd you may get up to 8 solid sessions before the flavor begins to waver.

Add this to your favorite tea & get all the add benefits & a very good energy boost!

The best yerba mate I’ve had, bar none.