Your Ideal Scene for consuming Kava?

[kl.trevorlay]

Was just curious as how you all enjoy your kava?  With music, Outside in the quite, Social get togethers, reading, T.V. or movie as a few examples

Whats some of your favorite music to listen to while drinking this great drink?

Also is their anything you avoid while drinking kava (besides the hopefully obvious driving!)

-Thanks!

 

[kl.rcoz]

I'm surprised this didn't get any replies. Anyway I usually watch a sitcom, sometimes with the family. I've been meaning to experiment with setting. I've read about some nakamals are dimly lit and discourage talking. I've also seen some videos on youtube where people gather in brightly light rooms, playing guitars, singing.



I wonder how much it adds to the enjoyability vs tradition.



I'm trying to get my wife to drinking kava, so far it's failing I gave her a few shells of Wow! and couldn't get over the numb stomach.

 

[Islandtime]

I think oudoors is the best, or around a fire with friends.  My problem with that is I have a hard time getting people into kava. So If I am by myself I like dim lit rooms listening to music(always calm music) reading is also very enjoyable.  watching TV or movies can be fun as well.  Sometimes the setting needs to match the kava. Some kavas make me want to be around people and others make me want to just chill. Those are just some of my thoughts hope it helps.

 

[Kojo Douglas]

About an hour before dinner. Sitting around with good friends, discussing the Kava and then other things. Then again after the meal about 3-4 shells. Drinking Kava on the beach is also great, especially something like Solomon or Hiwa (not trying to compare the two, but both good for the beach). Then playing bocci ball... Yeah. Kava and bocci ball is so fun.

 

[Paradise Kava]

Ideal scene which is embedded in my memory forever.
 
Sitting with Pops, Uncle Robert, in his Kava Bar in Kalapana, Hawai'i. This is the last standing house next to a sea of black lava. It's a magical place at night specially, where one downs shells of kava while sometimes being able to see the clouds colored in hues of pink, red and orange, reflecting  Kiluea's bright lava flow nearby.
Nothing is so pleasing as listening to the palm leaves rustling by the ocean, the sparing words spoken between the kava drinkers, dim lighting for pupus (appetizers) in between shells while one listens to one's own mind in between the sounds of waves breaking nearby.
The only way this ideal scene gets better is if one of his kids starts to sing a moving Hawaiian song.
This is the only place in any of the Hawaiian Islands I have been to where time is so slow, it's almost unbearable for those who just flew in from the mainland US who talk and talk away to compensate for the lack of words being said.

But those of us who can just drink Kava and let it all in, it's just magic! Just ideal!

 

[Kojo Douglas]

Now that sounds nice. I need to get out to Hawaii sometime.

 

[kl.rcoz]

paradisekava, sound great. One day I'll get to Hawaii.

 

[kavalover]

Major bump. Wow. Two year bump.



Yesterday I had the most amazing experience. I hiked up this hill we have just outside of our city, there's one path up and the rest drops off a steep cliff. The view is wonderful for sunsets, I live in a fairly flat Semi Arid area so you can see as for as your eyes will let you down the dusty landscape. It's wonderful. I got there right about as the sun started leaving us, and I made about 4 tbsp of Vanuatu Instant Green in probably half a cup. Gulped it down. Man, that was the most beautiful thing ever. The clouds glowing in the setting sun, Venus shining bright in the Northwest sky. A slight breeze patting my face. The euphoria from the instant kava just setting in once half the sun was beyond the horizon. That was hands down the greatest experience I've ever had with the aid of kava. Though probably not recommended with being near a cliff and all.



Jus had to share it with you guys.

 

[Ed!]

That sounds amazing.



I'm a big nature lover and I really haven't used kava out in nature other than sitting on my porch watching the trees. I may have to bring some of my instant green (which should be arriving any day now!) on a camping trip some time.

 

[Prince Philip]

The one thing I need to avoid while drinking kava is technical support.



I was in a dark room, listening to the soundtrack to Angels & Demons, and suddenly Queen Elizabeth II says "fuck this shit!" and turns off the music and turns on the lights. Now, I'm totally krunk because I think that a second-pressing will be too weak without adding something else in, so I've got this combination of White Sands mixed thick (because back in the day I was trying to follow the seriously heavy Nakamal@Home recipe), with maybe one or two teaspoons of Shaman making it even heavier. I wind up freaking out because I'm interpreting her turning the lights on and the music off as a major emergency, and we wind up screaming at each other because I resent her being a total buzzkill. The next day, I try to make things right by taking her to Microcenter Mall to buy a $50 precision gaming mouse to play Minesweeper with. Yes, I shit you not, Minesweeper.



So, yeah, avoid tech support, buzzkills, and probably the House of Windsor in general. I mean, I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children. (OK, Chuckie and Annie do call themselves by the surname Windsor-Mountbatten {don't ask me why the Germans call Mount Yasur "Mountbatten"}).