[wink]

One on each ear...?

 

[jux Tpose]

You all need to try Yerba Mate if you like to be wired.  It's a very strong south american tea, and can sometimes be found in grocery stores.  Guayaki is the best brand.  It's more stimulating than coffee, but has a bit less caffeine.

 

[serman005]

  You all need to try Yerba Mate if you like to be wired.  It's a very strong south american tea, and can sometimes be found in grocery stores.  Guayaki is the best brand.  It's more stimulating than coffee, but has a bit less caffeine.

What is the active ingredient?

 

[CCXR594]

Caffeine is the main active ingredient. However, it does also have theobromine. Mate is made from a plant called Ilex paraguensis, brewing the leaves and stems of the plant like you do in normal tea. 
 
Personally I don't find it gives as much of a boost as coffee, and I also don't like the flavor as much. Guayaki's cold canned mate is really convenient though and I would choose it over an energy drink.

 

[serman005]

  Caffeine is the main active ingredient. However, it does also have theobromine. Mate is made from a plant called Ilex paraguensis, brewing the leaves and stems of the plant like you do in normal tea. 
 
Personally I don't find it gives as much of a boost as coffee, and I also don't like the flavor as much. Guayaki's cold canned mate is really convenient though and I would choose it over an energy drink.

Ah--thanks for the explanation. I believe theothrombine is a methylxanthine, like theophylline. What you say makes sense.

 

[StanD]

  One on each ear...?

That's old math.

 

[wink]

New math is too arcane to explain.

 

[jux Tpose]

I prefer to French press my mate. How much do you French press? Lol

 

[wink]

It's the bench press for the heavy lifters.........   

 

[pureangus62]

I prefer to French press my mate. How much do you French press? Lol

 
I've actually doing skullcrushers on an incline bench referred to as a French press.

 

[wink]

That sounds lethal.....    

 

[Music Alchemist]

  That sounds lethal.....    

 

[wink]

 

 

 

 
 

 

[wink]

All you dudes must have run out of coffee.........   

 

[StanD]

No, I didn't run out of coffee. I was in a store replacing an electric can opener that passed away, when I saw a Primula cold brew gadget, it wasn't expensive, so one left the store with me. Yes wink, I paid for it. Later tomorrow I get to drink the stuff and I'll find out what the soundcoffeestage is like. Supposedly it is more concentrated than coffee, how that stacks up against espresso, I'll find out. Have any of you made your own?