Terere
6 guides tagged Terere
Buyer's Guide
The Best Tereré Gear (2026): Guampas, Insulated Cups, and Ice-Cold Kits
Paraguay drinks its mate ice-cold, and cold mate has its own gear logic: insulated vessels that fight condensation, bombillas that handle long icy sessions, and pitchers built for ice. These are the tereré setups worth buying, from a handmade Paraguayan kit to a $15 double-wall starter.
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Explainer
Yerba Mate Recipes: Ways to Drink It Beyond the Gourd
Tereré, iced mate, a mate latte, citrus and herbs (yuyos), and a mate cocktail — simple ways to use yerba mate beyond the traditional plain gourd.
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Explainer
What Is Tereré? The Cold-Brewed Mate of Paraguay
Tereré is yerba mate drunk ice-cold — water (or juice) poured over the leaf in a guampa and sipped through a bombilla. What it is, how to make it, and why it's the summer way to drink mate.
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Explainer
What Is a Guampa?
The cup of tereré — the cold-brewed mate of Paraguay and northern Argentina. What a guampa is, how it differs from a hot-mate gourd, and how to care for one.
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Buyer's Guide
The Best Yerba Mate for Cold Brew & Tereré (2026)
Drunk cold — over ice water or juice — yerba mate becomes tereré, the Paraguayan tradition. Cold also sidesteps the hot-beverage temperature caveat. These are the smoothest leaves for it.
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Buyer's Guide
The Best Paraguayan Yerba Mate (2026)
Paraguay makes the smoothest mate of the three big origins — con palo, lightly smoked, long-aged, and the only one built for ice-cold tereré. These are the Paraguayan brands worth buying, ranked.
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