HolyMate

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Project HackMate
Name HackMate
Start 2020/12/11
Contact Okarin
Website
Information Club Mate imitation inpired by Hack Pittsburgh's open mate recipe
Status Ongoing


Equipment

  1. Thermometer
  2. Pan
  3. Kitchen scale
  4. High precision scale
  5. Steeping bag
  6. Soda-Keg or Soda-Keg bottle addapter
  7. Co2 Tank

11/12/2020 attempts

Ingredients

Test Batch 1A

  1. Hot water (500ml)
  2. Yerba Mate (10g) (Yerba mate CBSé guaraná)
  3. ‘raw’ cane sugar (35g)
  4. vanilla sugar (8g)
  5. 130mg caffeine powder (handle with care!)
  6. Cold water (500ml)
  7. CO2

Test Batch 1B

  1. Hot water (500ml)
  2. Yerba Mate (10g) (Yerba mate CBSé guaraná)
  3. ‘raw’ cane sugar (35g)
  4. 130mg caffeine powder (handle with care!)
  5. citric acid (2g)
  6. Cold water (500ml)
  7. CO2

Test Batch 2

  1. Hot water (500ml)
  2. Yerba Mate (10g) (Yerba mate CBSé guaraná)
  3. ‘raw’ cane sugar (40g)
  4. 100mg caffeine powder (handle with care!)
  5. citric acid (1g)
  6. Cold water (500ml)
  7. CO2

Procedure

  1. Heat 440ml of water to 75*C
  2. Steep Yerba Mate using a steeping bag for 10min
  3. in a seperate pan heat 60ml of water
  4. Add sugar's
  5. Heat until the sugar is fully dissolved
  6. Add the sugar syrup to the tea
  7. Add add the citric acid
  8. Add Cold water
  9. Add caffine
  10. Poor into Keg and pressurize to 2 Bar

Results

Needed more carbonation time sample 1B tasted closest to the original club mate


10/09/23 Attempts

Test batch 1

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Steep 10gr tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 1gr citric acid
   6. Add 500ml cold water

Results

- Too sour/sweet. - Too yellow.

Test batch 2

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Steep 10gr tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 1gr citric acid
   6. Add 500ml sparkling water

Results

- Not sparkling enough - Slightly too sour - Too yellow.

Test batch 3

Procedure

   1. Heat 340ml water to 75C
   2. Steep 10gr tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 1gr citric acid
   6. Add 600ml sparkling water

Results

- Too watery, but the taste is somewhat similar - Not enough carbonation - Too yellow.

Test batch 4

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Steep 10gr tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 0.75gr citric acid
   6. Add 500ml sparkling water

Results

- Clearly too watery - Very flat, almost no carbonation - Too yellow.

Test batch 5

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Steep 25gr tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 1.5gr citric acid
   6. Add 500ml sparkling water

Results

- Not enough fizz - Too yellow.

Test batch 6

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Steep 25gr tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 1gr citric acid
   6. Add 500ml sparkling water

Results

- The Tea is slightly too strong - Not enough fizz - Too yellow.

More carbonation is needed. Attempt 5 and 6 are the closest to original club-Mate, but are still distinctly different. The colour is also too yellow. The original Club-Mate uses E150D (Caramel colour). Future attempts will also include this food colouring.

17/09/23 Attempts

Test batch 7

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   3. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   4. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   5. Add 2gr citric acid
   6. Add 500ml water
   7. Add 1 gr baking soda

Result

- Ondrinkbaar vies

Test batch 8

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Add the E150A
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   8. Add 1 gr baking soda to the sugar water
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   6. Add 2gr citric acid

Result

- Ondrinkbaar vies

Test batch 9

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Add the E150A
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 35gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Add CO2 using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

- tastes fine, but still less carbonation than the real version - a bit too sweet

Test batch 13, 14, 16, 18

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Rinse the tea slightly
   3. Steep 12g of tea for 5 minutes
   4. Dissolve 50gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1.2gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Filter trough a coffee filter 3 times
   8. Add CO2 at 3bar using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

Tastes good the additional citric acid brightens up the taste good balance with sweetness but still less carbonation and mate flavor than the real version.


28/10/23 Attempts

test batch 16

- Water - 17 gr taragui pure leaf - 50gr (cane) sugar - 1.2gr citric acid

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Wash the tea in a few ml water.
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 50gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1.2gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Add CO2 using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

Fresh and tasty, but too strong

test batch 17

- Water - 17 gr amanda premium - 50gr sugar - 1.2gr citric acid

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Wash the tea in a few ml water.
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 50gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1.2gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Add CO2 using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

Fresh and tasty, but too much tanine

05/11/23 Attempts

test batch 19

- Water - 17 gr Pajarito yerba mate - 50gr sugar - 1.2gr citric acid

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Wash the tea in a few ml water.
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 50gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1.2gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Add CO2 using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

Fresh and tasty, but too smokey

09/11/23 Attempts

test batch 20

- Water - 17 gr FJW mystery mate - 50gr sugar - 1.2gr citric acid

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Wash the tea in a few ml water.
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 50gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1.2gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Add CO2 using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

WIP

test batch 21

- Water - 10 gr Taragüi pure leaf - 7 gr pajarito tea - 50gr sugar - 1.2gr citric acid

Procedure

   1. Heat 440ml water to 75C
   2. Wash the tea in a few ml water.
   3. Steep the tea for 10 minutes
   4. Dissolve 50gr sugar in 60ml (heated) water
   6. Add 1.2gr citric acid
   5. Add the sugar-water to the tea
   7. Add 500ml water
   8. Add CO2 using a tank and let it rest for a good while

Result

WIP


Other recipe's

  1. Hack Pittsburgh Open Mate
  2. Interlock Rochester's Open Mate Beta 2
  3. Make's Dave-Mate
  4. Overbryd's imatate
  5. Jnin's Club Mate Copycat
  6. Tilde's Mate (post long overdue)
  7. HackMate
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