I've started drinking this instead of earl grey and it's actually pretty good. Anyone else tried it? I originally got it after seeing a post on erowid about it being 'really relaxing'. I didn't make really concentrated tea like that person did, so I didn't really get any effect, but I enjoy the taste regardless. I bought (box of 25 bags) some for $6 in the capital, which I thought was steep, but I just ran out and the grocery store sells it for $8.75.....Kinda a lot for tea, even if it is free trade and organic...anyways
Well, here in Argentina its really popular, but we drink it in a diferent way. We use like... a cup, wich we call "mate" and then we put the "yerba" there.
The same happens here in Uruguay, we drink it in a "mate". It's a traditional drink in this part of the world
it has caffeine in it so im not a frequent sipper of the yerba mate. i do love on some organic earl grey tea i still have from a while back when i went on an all things organic are good kick. dont know how antioxidizing it is though? i know white tea is the best, then green, then black, but i dont know where grey fits in there? and i just drink it out of bland culture-less american glass, lol.
actually, this is one plant the errowid is innacurate about. The chemical is NOT caffeine, but a close derivitive. Tweaking a molecule changes a lot. At home my sweetie the stimulant freak uses a french press and a travel mug. what do you mean by grey tea? Earl Grey was a person's name, not a descriptive of teh plant. True tea is green or black. white is an earlier part of teh leaf. Red is a rubioos twig infusion as are all herbal "teas".
oh i thought they were given colors by the way they were processed, and some methods of process left more good stuff than others.
sort of, with green/black. It's the drying and the age of the leaf at harvest. Yerba Mate is a completely different plant (so it, too is also an infusion technically)
i love yerba mate. I use a tea ball with it-not bags as im a caffine freak and need more caffine than what bags can provide me.
yes. Good stuff. Manitou Springs Colorado has a cafe. There are a few others. For a long time the only us sopurce of non-smoked (like Guiyaki -missspelled) leaves. Now offering a smoked-leaf (smoother some say) version. Disclaimer: owned by a cult (academic definition of a religious splinter with a living charismatic founder) called 12 Tribes. some odd offshoot of Xtian with a gloss of Hebrew language.
