Description: This brew gives you a tasty boost with a unique combination of exotic ingredients. It combines freshly roasted peaberry coffee beans with Argentine maté, and laces them with almonds, white chocolate and other roasted barks and roots. The result is sweet, rich and deliciously satisfying. Plus it’s a sweet treat you can enjoy guilt-free, as this blend has virtually no calories. No wonder they say maté makes you efficient.
Ingredients: Roasted yerba maté, peaberry coffee bean or flat bean, cocoa nibs, carob, cloves, white chocolate (Sugar, nonfat milk powder, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, soy lecithin, monoglycerides, artificial colour, artificial flavour), almonds, red clover, oat straw.
Allergens: Dairy, nuts and soy
Caffeine: 3 (Stimulant)
How to Brew: 1.5 tsp 98°C/208°F 4-7 min
(From DAVIDsTEA: Jumpy Monkey)
Steph's Thoughts:
Good morning, maté! If it weren't so frowned upon to put you in my guampa instead of regular maté, I totally would. (Traditionally, only Ilex paraguariensis - straight yerba maté - goes into the guampa.) It would make my day so much better.
You can definitely tell this tea is a maté from the bouquet, and the taste. It's slightly bitter, like maté, but there's a hint of something else, something .... earthier. Chickory, maybe? Except there's no chickory in the ingredients... I was expecting this to taste a little more like chocolate, given the amount of chocolate in the tea, but I guess that's Chocolate Rocket I'm thinking of. It's not as sweet as some of the other matés, so in my opinion it requires a little bit of sweetener. It has a very nice initial taste, but has a bit of a maté kick to it as an aftertaste.
The thing about maté is that it gives you the same mental boost without the jitteries of coffee, so if you need to be awake, maté's just as good as coffee, without the crash. And this tea has actual coffee beans in it, so WHEEEEEE.
And HEY, did you know that yerba maté is actually from the holly family? So TECHNICALLY IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE SEASON!!!!! (because it is Christmas-ish, you see...)
VERDICT: Not my favourite maté, but better than straight maté!! Uh, Half-win??
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