Kava Kava

[Ice]

My thoughts exactly.

I shall do this. I'll either have it tomorrow or Friday. I'm going to mix in some pineapple juice, coconut milk, and oj. I'll then drink it while smoking a fine cigar after dinner, and report back here with my experience.

[Megas Methuselah]

... a fine cigar-

What exactly are we celebrating here?

[Ice]

What exactly are we celebrating here?

Nothing really. Fine cigars really don't cost much if you know how to pick them.

[A Nerd]

You are indeed a worldly and sophisticated fellow! ;) I too would like to know how your experience goes!

[Hosakawa Tito]

I shall do this. I'll either have it tomorrow or Friday. I'm going to mix in some pineapple juice, coconut milk, and oj. I'll then drink it while smoking a fine cigar after dinner, and report back here with my experience.

Don't mix it with alcohol, drive a vehicle or operate a chain saw please. We don't want anything bad to happen to you.

[Megas Methuselah]

Don't ...or operate a chain saw please.

Yeah, no kiddin. You can't afford to cut off your fingers, Ice. Accountants need those little limbs more'n anythin.

[Ice]

Kava arrived today in the mail. Not wanting to wait to try it out, I immediately open the package. The stuff basically looks like dirt crossed with some sort of herb. I pour some pineapple juice, milk, coconut milk, and 2 tsb of kava in a blender. I try the result... I almost gag. I add a banana, and reblend it. It tastes much better now.

I'll let you know how the outcome fares.

[Ice]

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.

[Fragony]

Here they sell it in capsules at the shroomshop, must be for a reason it sounds horrible.

[Ice]

Here they sell it in capsules at the shroomshop, must be for a reason it sounds horrible.

I'd advise against buying it in capsules. Much of the liver toxicity HT linked to before was caused as a result of people eating these capsules. There is really no way to tell what's in these capsules, and instead of using the root many companies would throw in the leaves, branches, and other scraps which caused such toxcicity.

Describe disgusting nature. Taste, texture ?

The taste was pretty gross. Like I said before, I had to put in a lot of additives to force the mixture down. This caused an increase in volume, and kind of made me sick from the amount I had to consume. My stomach didn't feel quite right afterward.

The texture was almost that of dirt. It wasn't a huge problem, but the mixture tasted a bit grainy.

How was the cigar?

It was good. I actually was just smoking another one out back since it's such a beautiful Saturday afternoon. I've found a knockoff of Montecristo which are very cheap in bulk, so I've been smoking those.




The more read about Kava, the more I think I prepared it incorrectly. I supposedly have excellent stuff, and I've read reports on people getting very good results.

[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.

Describe disgusting nature. Taste, texture ?

Ah well, there's always alcohol.

[Megas Methuselah]

Well, this is disappointing.

How was the cigar?

[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...

[Megas Methuselah]

Well, there you go: let it steep.

[Ice]

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

This is one of the methods to prepare kava. I elected for the blender because it was supposed to agiatate the mixture and release kavalactones at a quick rate. However, most of the recipes told me to strain which is impossible after blending something for 5 minutes.

Edit: After reading the article, I realized that I wasn't using enough fat soluble liquid. I'll definitely this again.