How to be Sure your Kava is Noble

[Steve Mariotti]

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[Steve Mariotti]

Great post. Makes me want to put together a short informational video with simple animated shapes to show what kava is, where it comes from, how it's used and how it differs. Sort of the "ABC's of Kava".

 

[Pacifico]

A certain waka out here doesn't measure up to the highest standard but it seems to have a huge following. Thoughts?

 

[Pacifico]

That is very interesting. This was my first kava and I have gotten hammered on it twice. I will need to play with this one a bit more to really know. It might be a good glowing mixer to. I read about someone mixing it with moi. These two extremes could work.

 

[Pacifico]

Has GHK ever had waka?

 

[verticity]

The latest BKH COA for 11 year says 346251, which is the strangest chemotype I have ever seen and doesn't correlate with any known cultivar anywhere.

That's really weird. Great if you like yangonin I guess. I'm willing to believe the orange acetone test is a false positive. Judd claims to have tested the KL/FK ratio, which demonstrated it is noble, but anomalous COAs like that give one pause: was it actually the same thing tested in the COA and what is being sold?

 

[verticity]

Has GHK ever had waka?

GHK sells a Fijian kava, which is quite good, although I am not sure if it is technically "waka" (meaning lateral roots only)

 

[Pacifico]

Yep, that is what it means. I am intending to stay micro though. The word "waka" has a glow to it.

 

[Gourmet Hawaiian Kava]

Has GHK ever had waka?

Hi, my Fijian kava is a blend of the Waka (lateral roots) and the lewena (corm) or the kava, it is a 50/50 ratio. Aloha.

Chris

 

[Pacifico]

Hi, my Fijian kava is a blend of the Waka (lateral roots) and the lewena (corm) or the kava, it is a 50/50 ratio. Aloha.

Chris

Cool. I am Micronesian though.

 

[verticity]

Cool. I am Micronesian though.

That's cool, but I'm pretty sure you're allowed to use kava from places where you are not from.

 

[Pacifico]

So glad I am not Wakanese...

 

[verticity]

Cool. I am Micronesian though.

... And 23 hours later I finally get the joke. But I'm of Medium Grindian ancestry; we can be kind of coarse sometimes.

 

[Pacifico]

... And 23 hours later I finally get the joke. But I'm of Medium Grindian ancestry; we can be kind of coarse sometimes.

Oh no you didn't gurrrlll. I also don't know who is speaking American English or British English or Commonwealth English for that matter. That's it guys... I declare we are speaking Spanish.