Pixie Mate Reviews!!!

I recently wrote Dan Olson of Pixie Mate based in Boulder. I had heard that Pixie Mate had joined with 3rd Street Chai. I wanted to find out more details, and try some Pixie Mate as I had only had a very limited amount of the stuff.

From first look on their website, the incredibly quirky laced wordage is quite intriguing. They describe their founding story as:

Two amigos in Boulder went looking for a healthy change. They discovered the newest old beverage and launched the sacred sip that gives the buzz of coffee a blush of shame. They mingled the mystery of mate with the juice of cheeky and a squeeze of sass, and called it Pixie Mate. It will float your soul on the wings of a softer buzz and beat the bushes for body-happy antioxidants. Pixie Mate. Take flight.

After reading their entire website(http://pixiemate.com/find.html), I wanted to know more about Pixie Mate and 3rd Street Chai now. Dan Olson was awesome and gave me some great info:

"Third Street and Pixie were both local companies that merged a year and a half ago. Third Street makes Chai and Iced Tea concentrates and Pixie makes Yerba Mate concentrates (among other things), so there was a great opportunity to combine manufacturing (Pixie concentrate production was outsourced prior to the merger). Plus, many of our customers in the specialty coffee channel overlapped and there were many opportunities to gain lots of distribution.

The good news is that our concentrates are now microbrewed in Boulder, using real organic spices, in our 100% wind-powered facility. We also now compost 100% of our ingredients with local farmers and we’re able to offer our product in recyclable #5 plastic bottles, instead of tetrapacks (which aren’t easy to recycle)"

I couldn't of said it better.

Here is my review: (minus Mate Chai concentrate, coming soon...)

Mate Latte Concentrate

-After creating the drink as you can see above, I notice off the first sip that the taste is very "throaty," and that a minty taste is very prominent while also refreshing which leaves me with pleasant breath.

-It is a very sweet, but drinkable beverage, which I enjoyed. My Girlfriend thought it was too sweet and wanted more Mate presence.

-My final thoughts on the drink is that it is very tasty, but the mate is not prominent enough and it has too much “chai” taste, which my girlfriend and I were quite confused by.

The next reviews are all Yerba Mate infusions in TeaBags (In note form):

Ruby Roobios Mate

-Tasted a bit "Metallicy." Unsure why, I feel it may be the packaging

-Very Flavorful and Tasty

-Got me really Jacked up

-Had to use the restroom a bunch

-Potentially awesome Juicy mate.

Great Infusion, I REALLY enjoyed this one.

4/5

Green Tea Mate

-A very tasty blend

-The metallic taste is very overwhelming and daunting

-The Mate and the Green Tea both bring their own tastes, which blend together very nicely.

-Didn’t jack me up, which I needed at the time. Unsure why.

3.5/5

Traditional Mate

-Not as "metallicy" as the above two

-I would love to try their loose leaf tea, as teabags need to be stronger

-The Mate tastes unsmoked but it is hard to tell.

-It tastes much like EcoTeas

-Very smooth and drinkable

4/5

Chocolate Mate

-Smells like Chicory. Very strong, not very pleasant

-Has potential for awesome Mate Milkshake

-Mate not very prominent

-Honey or Mascovo addition could be tasty

-Bit watery, minty, metallicy

-Taste grew on me as I drank it as I was weiry of chocolate mate

-I think this blend has potential for espresso mate, mate lattes, and mate milkshakes.

-Post Drink analysis: Mouthy minty feeling, I am not understanding this minty feeling that Pixie has been giving me.

2/5

Limon Mate

-Most tasty blend I have tried so far.

-Best Limon Mate blend I have tasted

-Would enjoy more mate presence, but very tasty

-Little metallicy

-Well done.

4.5/5

Mate Chai

-CARDAMOM is a very strong presence. Overpowering smell

-Can’t taste mate

-Smooth, but a bit bland

-Metallicy, makes mouth minty feeling

-Bit of spice when swallow

2/5

Dark Roast Mate

-Minty

-Smooth

-At first I hated it, but became tasty. Smell is not pleasant though

-Nothing special, but drinkable

3/5


Thank you so much Pixie Mate. On the whole, I would say that Pixie is hit or miss with their deliciousness, but they do have it. I feel they need to work on the "metallic" taste, and the minty post-drink taste I have in my mouth with most of their drinks.
I love the culture of Pixie Mate, and I feel they have a very strong future in the Mate game. I am very excited to taste their Juicy Mate in the future, as well as the Mate Chai(review up soon).

Thanks again PIXIE MATE & 3RD STREET CHAI

Check out their sites at:

http://pixiemate.com/

www.3rdstreetchai.com

Taken from http://www.shadetreemate.blogspot.com/