Chimarrão

Hmmm... I almost forgot how good the winter-taste of chimarrão is! Just had some sips at the gaucho's one now in the office.

I sold all my chimarrão stuff to a Japanese friend in Toronto and this was the first chimas I drunk since then. Last Saturday I bought new equipment (gourd and straw) but I haven't used them yet.

Chimarrão's quick definition: "unsugared enriched maté-tea prepared in a gourd and sucked through a metallic tube with a strainer at the bottom end, called bomba (straw)"

For those who want to learn more about it, here's an excellent illustrated tutorial: http://www.das.ufsc.br/~emerson/chimarrao/ (it's in Portuguese but for the pictures it's worth having a look).

update
in English: http://www.promate.com.br/chima2.htm