Yeppers, Intrepidus_dux...I didn't want to name names, but that may be where I got some nasty kava a couple of years ago. I tried it, and had a bad experience, and am only now getting re-acquainted with kava. The vendors who come on here are great. I look forward to trying all of their kavas!
Lil K
a few pointers that helped me with the taste/gag thing early on:
1. make stronger kava, higher root:water ratio so you have to consumer less volume, lessen exposure, until you adapt. Just chug it all at one go, fast as you can and then chase it.
2. Instead of just water, I would use a mixture of 2/3 water and 1/3 coconut milk
3. Immediately after swallowing, chase it. Best is ginger beer (not ginger ale but ginger beer, which is more gingery, and it's the ginger that produces the effect). Before that I used fresh pineapple. But anything is better than nothing, any fruit or juice or even pop. Ginger beer is the very best chaser, tho, IMO.
