Club Mate
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Club Mate is a not very sweet, dry soda made in Germany. Super popular with the Hacktiirs, its pronounced MAH-TEY! (Cf. Yerba Mate Tea)
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We normally try to keep a good supply of Club Mate at Noisebridge because it is great to drink while hacking. It's not very common in the states (though getting more so), so it's a bit of a unique feature that we have it. It's also a good fundraiser for us. We normally ask about 4-5 dollar donation per bottle and get them for about half that, so this really helps pay our rent.
Ordering Club Mate[edit | edit source]
Last updated 2019
We normally order our club mate from Ferrymen (www.ferrymen.net). Our contact is Alex Rethwisch and they can be reached at alex at ferrymen dot net. Email, explain you are from Noisebridge, and ask for a quote. They should send a quote, then you need to agree to it. They will send an invoice and you pass that on to the treasurer to pay the invoice (good to CC yourself on all that to make sure it paid, etc!)
When we were ordering in 2018, it was $40 per case. There are additional costs for acquiring or renting a vehicle to cart all the cases to Noisebridge from their storage in Oakland, OR for shipping.
There are two types of cases (both types are $40 per case):
Original bottles values are 330ml (24 bottles per case) and 500ml (20 bottles per case), equals 11.2 oz and 16.9oz. But in the US the small bottle is known as 12oz, the big one as 16oz.
The big one has much more Maté for the buck. But fewer per case and the price is higher, so we probably make a bit less when we order the big ones.
In 2023, we paid 36.00 per case for 48 cases of the 500ml/16.9oz bottles (20 bottles per case), for a total of 1728.00 cost, plus around 300 extra shipping cost for delivery to Noisebridge's address.
You will need to mobilize volunteers to schedule delivery, meet the delivery truck, and unload the boxes from the pallet into the space and store them out of the way.
We often get requests from people who want to donate to take a case for personal use or for another organization. Please use your own judgement about this, but keep in mind, we normally go through at least two pallets a year, and organizing the orders and delivery is a bunch of actual work. So, letting other orgs take a couple of pallets (for a comparable donation) means, More work for you and the Club Maté unloading crew!
The following may be obsolete as of 2024[edit | edit source]
The 2600 Hacker Magazine group also sells Club Mate. Normally it's more expensive than ferrymen but once in a while they have a good deal if the Club Mate is going to expire soon. Shipping is normally more because it ships from New York area. Contact is Kyle Drosdick. Email is flyko at 2600.com A pallet is 48 cases.
Slogan[edit | edit source]
"Man gewöhnt sich daran..." Literally, one gets used to it.
It does have some other meanings, You get used to it...you (can) get accustomed to it or in the sense of (suck it up, it'll be ok) you'll get used to it...or you can build up a resistance to it....weird. Strange slogan... --Charlotte 13:53, 21 June 2009 (PDT)