Club Mate
What Your Favourite Energy Drink Says About You
Goths love Monster and straight-edge ravers love Club-Mate. Sorry, we don’t make the rules.
The Ketwurst Is Germany’s Strangely Phallic Answer to the Hot Dog
The ketwurst is an East German hot-dog-not-hot-dog made by pushing a bread roll onto a hot spike, toasting the inside, swilling a sausage around in a tray of ketchup, and squeezing the resulting meat mess into the bread hole.
Everything I Ate When I Cycled the Route of the Berlin Wall
The Berliner Mauerweg cycle path follows all 170 kilometres of the former Berlin Wall. But what do you eat as you attempt to cycle through history? Bread, bottles of Club Mate, Ritter Sport, and a lot of currywurst.
Chaos Communication Congress: A Very German Hacking Conference
From WWII, through the leftwing rebellions of the 80s, to the squats of Berlin, the CCC is a hacking conference built on politics. And volunteers.
How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice
After gaining a cult following at hackathons and raves, Club-Mate has quietly gone global.