Greetings from Argentina, it's great to see adoption of Mate in the US markets!

Like the way you put that.

Very good topic. I have a friend that's a real square and he criticized me. This was before I had found your video. He told me that I was trying to chase a high. I had told him that it's a rush of indorphins type "high". Unfortunately we live in a society that likes to put lables on people. You brought up some good points and I agree with you. I just told him that he needs to try it and not knock till he's tried it. He does not drink coffee or even tea. Well kudos to you great educational video. Have a good day.

@yerbamatenow

2 ай бұрын

He does sound like kind of a square. Try to get him to try it!

@user-sg1nu6ch3j

2 ай бұрын

@@yerbamatenow I agree, I will keep trying. Thank you

I looked the Yerba up at Amazon USA. The cheapest costs around 10 USD for 500 Gramm. That is way way to expensive to consume as your main drink daily as coffee is. Over here we consider it expensive when we pay 1.5 USD for an pack of 500 Gramms of Yerba with natural herbs (no artificial flavours). Locally here in Southamerica it costs around 1.5 USD per 0.5 Kg pack. There is no way people will afford Yerba for Terere or Mate if the package of 0.5 Kg costs 10 USD + tax in the USA. One 0.5 Kg pack lasts your around 1 week or less if you take 4 times a day Terere (like in hot states you would take Terere and not Mate) as your daily water consumption each Terere (new Yerba in Gourd) being consumed with 1.2 liters of ice water. We take here less Yerba per Gourd as you do per Terere session of 1.2 Liters. I take these 40 Oz Stanley tumblers as Terere pitcher. One gourd full of fresh Yerba lasts you exactly 1.2 Liters of cold water. By volumen you fill up an 4 cm wide and 9 cm high round cylinder with Yerba which gives you the approximate amount of Yerba we use in each Guampa (gourd) per serving (per Terere it is called). So 500 Gramm of Yerba lasts you allmost a week. Over here we drink around 2 to 4 times Terere per day so up to 4 fresh gourds full of Yerba per day and each time with 1.2 Liters of water for total of over 4 Liters of water consumption per day per person with Yerba (Terere). If you use it as your main water consumption per day the Yerba has to be cheaper in the US - way cheaper. You did not mention the elephant in the room: Discrimination in Northamerica of all and everything which is not anglosaxon based. In Northamerica I was looked weird by natives when I started to drink Terere there. Basically they saw me as an outsider and basically I heard them asking already "tell me when are you leaving?". Discrimination is a reality in Northamerica of everything unusual of the "native englishmen" so that way they treat Yerba as an kind of newby religion while it is just common stuff in Southamerica on a daily basis. Coffee is here not so popular and tea even less in the english manner. We consider ourselves as an tea nation as the english but we are not aknowledged by others as such. For the US and Canadian englishmen you are a weird bird if you drink Yerba and they immediately see you as an outsider. You will experience immediately discrimination and you will not advance in any means in Northamerica if they see you with a gourd, bombilla (straw and filter) and Terere pitcher. They even invite you under the hand to go back from where you came. Basically the locals think: Why did you come in the first place?! Weird bird just go back... So discrimination and societal bullying are the main reasons why Yerba never will become main stream in Northamerica. They even suspected me to drink liquid cocaine suspended in the Yerba once. I could not convince the english of the contrary at all. I invited them to try but they denied frankly. I knew they saw it as an culture non grata in northamerica since it "was not from them". Once out from Northamerica I stopped immediately drinking coffee completely. Wasn't the worst thing in my life to do. I saw how northamericans started to shake if they did not have their tumbler of strongest coffee. So I realised they where all hooked up onto coffee addiction. Yerba as Terere suspends very little coffeine so you can not even get addicted. It makes mostly just flavoured water with some micronutrients suspended (but it does not give you really a kick specially if only natural herbs are added). So there is no addiction with Yerba hence americans and canadians despise it. That way it goes - it's all about getting drugged up for americans. Can't do that, ain't any good. Sad but true!

I love soccer, and mate. I love your videos man. One question I have for you is where do you buy your gourds and bombillas? Similar to you, I'm American and live here in Texas.

Tbh, i was drinking like 4 red bulls a day. Than i bought mate, bombilla with some "yerba verde mate" and i drank some of it in a morning. I was pretty high 😂 i tried lot of drugs in my life and i felt same effect like if i took half of extasy. I was like after injection of dopamine and kicked by 4 redbulls in same time. I had meeting on teams and i had to control myself not to, u know, dancing around my room. 😂 From that day, i stopped drinking redbulls and iam drinking just an yerba. And apologize my English, iam from Czechia. 😊

Does it make you sweaty?

Are you familiar with brewing tea gongfu style?

@yerbamatenow

2 ай бұрын

I am! I used to have a nice gongfu teapot that I used to use to brew oolong. Gave it to a friend as a gift!

Football!!!!