Highballs and long drinks · Rum
Take a Caipirinha, swap the cachaça for rum, then fill the glass with fizzy, lightly bitter Club-Mate. The result is tall, cold and grassy-tart, with brown sugar at the bottom and a caffeine lift from the mate.
½
lime cut into small wedges
2 tsp
brown sugar
1¼ oz
white rum either works; gold rum adds more caramele.g. Bacardi · Havana Club · Plantation · Don Q · Flor de Caña
top up with
Club-Mate about 150 to 200 ml, well chilled
Garnish: Lime pieces in the glass · Ice: Crushed ice
Tschunk
Tart lime and caramel-like cane sugar over the dry, slightly smoky tea flavor of mate, with gentle fizz. Easygoing and not very strong, though it does contain caffeine.
The Tschunk comes from Germany and is closely tied to the hacker and computer culture there, above all to the events of the Chaos Computer Club, where Club-Mate has long been the unofficial drink of choice. Club-Mate is a carbonated soft drink made with extract from yerba mate, a South American plant naturally rich in caffeine, and it became a cult drink in German tech and club circles.
The Tschunk grew out of that scene as a simple mixed drink built like a Caipirinha: lime and sugar muddled in the glass, crushed ice and a spirit, only lengthened with Club-Mate. There is no known inventor, and the name has no clear origin; it is simply what the drink is called at hacker camps, congresses and bars in Berlin and beyond.
A German carbonated soft drink made with yerba mate extract, lightly sweet with a tea-like flavor and a fair amount of caffeine.
Other mate sodas work. Without mate it is simply a rum highball with lime, so the character of the Tschunk is lost.
Both are common. White rum keeps it fresh and clean, gold or dark rum adds caramel and vanilla.
The perfect sound
A long night of coding at a hacker congress.
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