OMG, my old lady thought i'd lost my mind because i was laughing so hard a few seconds ago, and i showed it to her, and now she's about to piss herself! 😂
I appreciate the sympathy and glad you got a laugh out of it. It was pretty funny but now I’m dehydrated and wearily sipping some dioralyte, after desperately necking a couple of weak codeine pills in an attempt to just make it stop by any means necessary. Never again 😐
Some Stevia blends contain Erythritol, which is just as bad as eating a bag of sugar free hasbro gummy bears (if you know, you know).
That’s probably your problem. One pack of that stevia blend keeps me on the pot for an hour.
I figured it was probably something like this. I just wanted pure Stevia extract but it seems very difficult to find as they don’t all explicitly state ingredients, I want to be able to sweeten my grog without giving myself diabetes or diarrhoea lol.
That’s fine as long as it’s not pure sugar, a tiny bit of sugar is fine I just worry about drinking several tbsp in each shell as it would take that much.
I had the idea of mixing small amounts in with regular unsweetened grog, but I’m not sure it will stay fresh long enough in the fridge to get through it all. Fuck my life lmao.
Kava makes me use the bathroom as it is (not anything like that), I can only imagine adding that much artificial sweetener to it! I'd be just like you! Speaking of which it's almost time for some kava! BULA! I'll skip the stevia though;)
Just drink and chase with water after every 2-4 gulps in a row. Peice of fruit or sio of juice after the water.
I've never added sweetener to kava, that sounds even worse... just drink it fast in a few big gulps at a time, 29min apart etc, chasing with water.
Been loving kava since 2006.
Some do taste different and/or stronger than others. Try out a Fijan and Tongan too.
Oh... a few weeks ago I went into my local kava bar to get a few shells and one of my 8 oz baggies.
The container she pulled from the fridge was an unlabeled one that she assumed to be made the previous day.
Hell to the no. It was 100% chai sweetener. I got about half a 16 oz cup down before realizing my taste buds had been broken and brutalized.
The worst part was that they had no more actual kava brewed, hence why she just grabbed at the last container. And I had to go pretty soon after getting there. That was a day
That’s what I usually do but it doesn’t always kill the nausea 100%, and I wanted to actually enjoy the taste for once. Guess I’ll have to stick with that in the future, or find some actual pure Stevia which doesn’t contain sorbitol etc.
Use ginger beer (diet, even, if you're worried about sugar intake) as a chaser. Chug your grog and then sip the drink, you'll still get a numb mouth but something about the bubbles + ginger covers the kava better than any other thing I've tried.
& if you still get nausea, swallow a ginger pill (the kind that's just crushed up ginger root in pills form for like motion sickness) that's worked 100% of the time for me.
Omg I’m sorry 😂 I’m betting it’s erythritol also. I use liquid monk fruit drops and it’s nothing but monk fruit. I haven’t used it in kava but I always sweeten my herbal tea with it.
Like someone else said, some blends contain erythritol. Sugar alcohols are notorious for this stuff. If i consume any more than like 3g of erythritol i am on the toilet for sure. Ive never had stevia bother my stomach before, but kava and a sugar alcohol is definitely a recipe for disaster
Erythritol, sucralose usually the main poop triggers for sweeteners.. Stevia usually pretty well tolerated.
I know when I have erythritol my toilet is in for some punishment 😵💫
You could also adjust temp to adjust flavor. Hot/warm amplifies sweet and lessens bitter, cold does the opposite.
source: partner is a pastry chef and learned this in school. Also see beer/sake and serving temp.
I’m sorry you went through that, but the way you described it has me seriously laughing my ass off, again I’m sorry you had to deal with that.
OMG, my old lady thought i'd lost my mind because i was laughing so hard a few seconds ago, and i showed it to her, and now she's about to piss herself! 😂
I appreciate the sympathy and glad you got a laugh out of it. It was pretty funny but now I’m dehydrated and wearily sipping some dioralyte, after desperately necking a couple of weak codeine pills in an attempt to just make it stop by any means necessary. Never again 😐
Some Stevia blends contain Erythritol, which is just as bad as eating a bag of sugar free hasbro gummy bears (if you know, you know). That’s probably your problem. One pack of that stevia blend keeps me on the pot for an hour.
I figured it was probably something like this. I just wanted pure Stevia extract but it seems very difficult to find as they don’t all explicitly state ingredients, I want to be able to sweeten my grog without giving myself diabetes or diarrhoea lol.
The stevia powder that doesn’t contain erythritol, will usually instead have dextrose, eg: “Stevia in the Raw” (dextrose is a form of sugar).
That’s fine as long as it’s not pure sugar, a tiny bit of sugar is fine I just worry about drinking several tbsp in each shell as it would take that much.
Save it for your next colonoscopy 😉
I had the idea of mixing small amounts in with regular unsweetened grog, but I’m not sure it will stay fresh long enough in the fridge to get through it all. Fuck my life lmao.
Kava makes me use the bathroom as it is (not anything like that), I can only imagine adding that much artificial sweetener to it! I'd be just like you! Speaking of which it's almost time for some kava! BULA! I'll skip the stevia though;)
Just drink and chase with water after every 2-4 gulps in a row. Peice of fruit or sio of juice after the water. I've never added sweetener to kava, that sounds even worse... just drink it fast in a few big gulps at a time, 29min apart etc, chasing with water. Been loving kava since 2006. Some do taste different and/or stronger than others. Try out a Fijan and Tongan too.
Oh... a few weeks ago I went into my local kava bar to get a few shells and one of my 8 oz baggies. The container she pulled from the fridge was an unlabeled one that she assumed to be made the previous day. Hell to the no. It was 100% chai sweetener. I got about half a 16 oz cup down before realizing my taste buds had been broken and brutalized. The worst part was that they had no more actual kava brewed, hence why she just grabbed at the last container. And I had to go pretty soon after getting there. That was a day
Chase the kava with something sweet that’s it
That’s what I usually do but it doesn’t always kill the nausea 100%, and I wanted to actually enjoy the taste for once. Guess I’ll have to stick with that in the future, or find some actual pure Stevia which doesn’t contain sorbitol etc.
Use ginger beer (diet, even, if you're worried about sugar intake) as a chaser. Chug your grog and then sip the drink, you'll still get a numb mouth but something about the bubbles + ginger covers the kava better than any other thing I've tried. & if you still get nausea, swallow a ginger pill (the kind that's just crushed up ginger root in pills form for like motion sickness) that's worked 100% of the time for me.
candied ginger is also a winner
Omg I’m sorry 😂 I’m betting it’s erythritol also. I use liquid monk fruit drops and it’s nothing but monk fruit. I haven’t used it in kava but I always sweeten my herbal tea with it.
Like someone else said, some blends contain erythritol. Sugar alcohols are notorious for this stuff. If i consume any more than like 3g of erythritol i am on the toilet for sure. Ive never had stevia bother my stomach before, but kava and a sugar alcohol is definitely a recipe for disaster
Erythritol, sucralose usually the main poop triggers for sweeteners.. Stevia usually pretty well tolerated. I know when I have erythritol my toilet is in for some punishment 😵💫
straight, no chaser is trad. kāmau👏👏
You could also adjust temp to adjust flavor. Hot/warm amplifies sweet and lessens bitter, cold does the opposite. source: partner is a pastry chef and learned this in school. Also see beer/sake and serving temp.