{"id":5563,"date":"2024-01-12T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/?post_type=embm_beer&#038;p=5563"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:30:49","slug":"mitra9-kava-seltzers","status":"publish","type":"embm_beer","link":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/mitra9-kava-seltzers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitra9 &#8211; Kava Seltzers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to try out some alcohol alternatives for Dry January, starting with these <a href=\"https:\/\/mitra-9.com\/collections\/kava-seltzer\/products\/variety-kava-beverages\">Kava seltzers<\/a> containing 500mg kava kava root extract per can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taste:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sparkling Coconut Lychee: Milky white in color, smells very faintly coconut. Sweet lychee and creamy coconut up front, more coconut, lychee tartness, and notes of earthy kava in the finish; overall sweet and very creamy, I like this flavor a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Sparkling Lemonade: Milky white, smells like Country Time lemonade. Sweet and tart lemonade up front with a strong earthy kava flavor in the finish with a touch of lingering acidity; overall the initial lemonade flavor is nice but it&#8217;s quickly overpowered and ends up tasting almost like a traditional bowl of kava.<\/p>\n<p>Sparkling Strawberry Watermelon: Milky white, smells of strawberries, watermelon rind, and lime. Sweet strawberry candies and watermelon gummies up front with a light acidity and notes of watermelon rind and lime peel on top of (and greatly attenuating) the earthy kava finish; overall much better than the lemonade, but not quite as good as the coconut lychee.<\/p>\n<p>Sparkling Orange Dreamsicle: Milky white, smells of orange, kava, and the tiniest hint of vanilla. The taste is mostly just earthy kava with subtle whispers of Tang underneath, finishes with a little more orange and vanilla notes and more earthy kava; overall it&#8217;s better than the lemonade, but the orange creamsicle flavor is very subtle, mainly just smoothing out the kava notes in the finish.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite: the Sparkling Coconut Lychee tastes great and covers up the kava flavor the best. The coconut even adds a creaminess to the mouthfeel that I really enjoy. 2nd favorite would be Strawberry Watermelon, then Orange Dreamsicle, and least favorite was the Lemonade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Classic mouth numbness of kava while drinking, with a moderately strong kava buzz from just one can. Two cans gives a heavily sedated yet lucid buzz, similar but superior to alcohol. One can of kava plus one can of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/mitra9-kratom-seltzers\/\">Kratom Seltzer<\/a> is a very mellow, relaxed buzz with a noticeable sleep inducing sedation.<\/p>\n<p>Overall these are certainly more convenient than traditional kava preparation, with virtually the same experience, plus some nice flavors to mask the earthy kava to varying degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","embm_styles":[275,234],"embm_groups":[],"embm_menus":[],"class_list":["post-5563","embm_beer","type-embm_beer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","embm_style-kava-kava","embm_style-seltzer"],"embm_profile":{"malts":null,"hops":null,"additions":null,"yeast":null,"abv":null,"ibu":null},"embm_extras":{"availability":null,"notes":null,"beer_number":null},"embm_untappd":{"id":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/embm_beer"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/5563\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embm_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_styles?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"embm_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_groups?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"embm_menu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_menus?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}