Posts Tagged "kava powder"

Shredded or Powder – Which is Better?

Posted by on Aug 23, 2008 in Ask Makaira | 6 comments

Shredded or Powder – Which is Better?

Mike asked: Your kava is definitely the best I have tasted of the five or six kinds I have had. It is also the second strongest kind that I have had (I had some Mo’i kava which, although even stronger, was much more difficult to drink). Anyway, the first time I bought kava from you, I was very surprised with how finely ground it was. I put it in my strainer the way that I did with kava in the past but nearly all of it ended up in the water. I drank it anyway and found it good aside from when I got to the end of the bowl and it was powdery. I just added some more water and was able to...

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Has All of Your Kava Been Dried and Powdered?

Posted by on Jul 26, 2007 in Ask Makaira | 1 comment

Has All of Your Kava Been Dried and Powdered?

Peter asked: Do you sell kava fresh, straight out of the ground, or has all of your kava been dried and powdered? Makaira says: We only sell dried and powdered root. We’ve tried to sell whole root as well as fresh root, but there has been so little demand that we lost a great deal of money from the stock we put aside to sell as fresh root each month. Our kava kava powder is sun dried and processed soon after harvest, and we have a high turnover rate, so you are sure to get extremely fresh kava kava root powder when you order from us! Aloha no,...

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