Prep and Drinking
The usual prep for me. No lecithin, just 1.5 cups of boiling water to 1.5 cups of room temperature tap water. Poured into 25 micron bag, squished for 10 minutes. Did a 2oz second and third wash with cold tap water until diluted results appeared.
First shell and second shell were at 15 minute intervals, and 30 minutes in I felt like I was standing on the tracks hit by a freight train. Got some eye-lag and light nausea accompanied by sighing and an "amped" feeling. Waited 30 minutes for third shell, as I debated whether I really needed it. Waited 20 more before fourth shell.
The taste was pretty bad. Pretty rank compared to the GHK varieties I've been drinking recently. Washed hands to get the smell off my hands. Very piquant. The taste hit with a kind of uneasy oilyness and then climbed to a bitter peak followed by an earthiness that lingered. I didn't chase with fruit, just let it ride. The bad taste dissipated after 30 seconds or so.
Onset and Effects
Holy cow, this stuff hits hard. I drank on an empty stomach as I always do. It rammed into my brain like an out of control shopping cart full of bricks. Eye-lag was immediate (at 30 minutes) followed by nausea and gurgling. I felt some disorientation and uneasy balance walking around for about 15 minutes. I ate a little and it started to even out, so I went back for two more shells spaced farther apart.
All I can say is: WOW! I definitely feel stimulated. Some warmth in the face but I'm feeling most of this in my cranium, not in my body. And the brain effects are STRONG! I feel like dancing. In fact, I'm listening to some upbeat industrial dance music and that's fitting perfectly. Fired up some 8kHz Mono - Monochromator, and I feel like The Terminator cruising through the streets of 1980's LA in a stolen cop car, punching lights and tearing over to the police station to find Sarah Connor. Lots of sighing and some giddiness. Speaking, my sentences are coming out in long run-on staccato syllables and I'm annoyed that my mouth can't keep up with what I want to say.
I'd say the uplift is stronger than M'oi or Borongoru, which are my go-to social kavas right now. I can definitely see going out to a rock concert on this stuff and fist pumping and rocking out to air guitar in the audience. I don't think I've ever had such a strong stimulant feel from kava. I feel like the Neuromancer after popping an octagon and buying some monofilament wire from The Swede before a night of infiltration. At times I feel my heart racing interspersed with lulls.
Overall Impressions
Fantastic! I sit here under a waterfall of pleasure streaming over me, hitting in waves and shoving me around. This is truly a special brew, and a singular experience so far in my roughly three months of avid kava drinking. I'm less "in the groove" and more on top of it, like a surfer jerking my board left and right to find the tastiest part of the curl.
Great stuff! Highly recommended! Not your couch-melter variety at all. Definitely strong and definitely a heady monster. I'm gonna keep the rest of the bag for the weekend and whatever social events I can drum up. I think I'll drink it before jam sessions on guitar as well. Seems like that would fit perfectly.
POOMP-POOMP, Mr. Toad. POOMP-POOMP!
The usual prep for me. No lecithin, just 1.5 cups of boiling water to 1.5 cups of room temperature tap water. Poured into 25 micron bag, squished for 10 minutes. Did a 2oz second and third wash with cold tap water until diluted results appeared.
First shell and second shell were at 15 minute intervals, and 30 minutes in I felt like I was standing on the tracks hit by a freight train. Got some eye-lag and light nausea accompanied by sighing and an "amped" feeling. Waited 30 minutes for third shell, as I debated whether I really needed it. Waited 20 more before fourth shell.
The taste was pretty bad. Pretty rank compared to the GHK varieties I've been drinking recently. Washed hands to get the smell off my hands. Very piquant. The taste hit with a kind of uneasy oilyness and then climbed to a bitter peak followed by an earthiness that lingered. I didn't chase with fruit, just let it ride. The bad taste dissipated after 30 seconds or so.
Onset and Effects
Holy cow, this stuff hits hard. I drank on an empty stomach as I always do. It rammed into my brain like an out of control shopping cart full of bricks. Eye-lag was immediate (at 30 minutes) followed by nausea and gurgling. I felt some disorientation and uneasy balance walking around for about 15 minutes. I ate a little and it started to even out, so I went back for two more shells spaced farther apart.
All I can say is: WOW! I definitely feel stimulated. Some warmth in the face but I'm feeling most of this in my cranium, not in my body. And the brain effects are STRONG! I feel like dancing. In fact, I'm listening to some upbeat industrial dance music and that's fitting perfectly. Fired up some 8kHz Mono - Monochromator, and I feel like The Terminator cruising through the streets of 1980's LA in a stolen cop car, punching lights and tearing over to the police station to find Sarah Connor. Lots of sighing and some giddiness. Speaking, my sentences are coming out in long run-on staccato syllables and I'm annoyed that my mouth can't keep up with what I want to say.
I'd say the uplift is stronger than M'oi or Borongoru, which are my go-to social kavas right now. I can definitely see going out to a rock concert on this stuff and fist pumping and rocking out to air guitar in the audience. I don't think I've ever had such a strong stimulant feel from kava. I feel like the Neuromancer after popping an octagon and buying some monofilament wire from The Swede before a night of infiltration. At times I feel my heart racing interspersed with lulls.
Overall Impressions
Fantastic! I sit here under a waterfall of pleasure streaming over me, hitting in waves and shoving me around. This is truly a special brew, and a singular experience so far in my roughly three months of avid kava drinking. I'm less "in the groove" and more on top of it, like a surfer jerking my board left and right to find the tastiest part of the curl.
Great stuff! Highly recommended! Not your couch-melter variety at all. Definitely strong and definitely a heady monster. I'm gonna keep the rest of the bag for the weekend and whatever social events I can drum up. I think I'll drink it before jam sessions on guitar as well. Seems like that would fit perfectly.
POOMP-POOMP, Mr. Toad. POOMP-POOMP!
