Berlin’s best kept secret.
Spend any time in tech circles in Berlin and you’ll come across Club Mate (pronounced mah-ta, like stigmata).
It’s a plant-based energy drink, kind of like a cola, but lighter. The taste is unusual and hard to describe.
“Your first sip tastes like horse urine filtered through hay”, according to one enthusiast. I’d say it’s more like a cross between tonic water and Lucozade.
But it’s strangely addictive. Once they’ve tried it, people tend to become somewhat obsessed.
This tattoo photo comes from the Club Mate fan page on Facebook, which has 120,000 followers.
The drink is particularly popular among developers, who find its caffeine content helps them focus.
For that reason it’s been dubbed Hacker-Brause, or “hacker fizz”. The drink also has vague hipster connotations. There’s a lot of it on Instagram.
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