Kava Kava

[Hosakawa Tito]

The initial verdict is in: Don't waste your money. I may have prepared it wrong, so I'll try again later.

Edit: To elaborate, I guess it did make me feel at ease a bit. I had a slight buzz, but the disgusting nature of kava probably will prevent me from buying it again unless my next attempt blows me away.

Well grasshopper, here's a link on how to prepare kava kava.

Take the kava – powdered, pressed, ground or shredded – put it in a strainer and place that in your beverage of choice and allow it to steep for several minutes minimum… the longer you let it brew, the better it will be. However, be careful not to use traditional tea strainers if you are using a powder; the wire mesh is not fine enough to hold in kava powder and it is very possible some will escape into your drink. Instead, use fine muslin bags which are reusable and better to strain the kava.

If you just dumped the powder into the liquid and drank it instead of steeping it or didn't use a fine enough strainer as described...I can well imagine it must have tasted awful. I'm surprised you didn't puke. Where's a Hawaiian WitchDoctor when you need one, eh? Crazy kids and their newfangled recreational drugs. Why, back in my day weed & lsd were the goldstandard...