What can I use? Someone help me.
I'm currently using 2 cups of coconut milk + 10 packets of splenda + 1/2 tsp of lemon juice + 1/2 tsp of olive oil + 1/3 tsp of cinnamon for each 1 tbsp of kava that I drink.
The coconut milk + olive oil are mostly for the fats, which I've heard will make kava last longer + become more effective.
But even then I'm getting tired of this taste. I need to mix it up a little.
What (or a combination of whats) can I use that will absolutely mask the taste of kava that's sugar-free and non-acidic?
The reason I'm using splenda instead of sugar is because sugar is bad for my teeth. Very low pH and very acidic.
Forget the fat. People get hung up on that but it really really really doesn't matter. Yes it can for some people, hard core experienced kava drinkers all, perhaps improve their experience by maybe 10%. If you are one of the small percentage of hardcore, then yes, it matters. But really? No, it doesn't matter. Forget the fat, unless you love the fat.
Generally I advise people to avoid additives. Just make grog, chill it down in the fridge or with ice, and do the smallest possible shot you can do without it bothering you. 2 - 4 oz of very cold grog will go down fast, in one go. Wait till your face stops contorting and do another shot. They key is to take what would normally be the shell you would want to drink. Say 8 oz. And then just break it up into units small enough that you can chug. Have some ginger beer handy to chase the taste. Basically maybe do a 2 oz shot, take a swig of ginger beer, wait a minute or two, do another shot etc. So it takes 10 minutes to get down 8oz instead of one minute, but it could be a lot easier. Worth a try, anyway. But in general I would focus less on additives to mask the taste at all and look at technique: chug tiny amounts in sequence, chasing with a strongly flavoured beverage to mask the taste and help with any stomach issues. Ginger beer is far from the only good chaser here but it is an ideal one.
Linguistic Note: in the kava world that's not what the word chaser means. I was using it in the alcohol sense of something you have immediately after a shot to ameliorate any unpleasantness. Properly speaking, in the kava world a chaser is something you eat after you have been drinking kava for a while in your session and want a snack. Typically these are quite high calorie junk food crap. It's wonderful, although I understand in the Pacific there are health hazards from this practice of eating "bad for you" food as kava chasers, although selling them can be a lucrative or even crucial money-maker for nakamals as impulse purchases are in many stores and gas stations here, or the wine list in a restaurant, yeah the resto sells food but that just breaks even, they make money on the impulse purchases, the Beer-Nuts n stuff. I used to love greasy hot spicy sausage as a chaser but I graduated to ice cream.