New Packaging for Vanuatu Instant Kava from Australia Kava Shop. Certainly a step up from the old brown bag and label look - same fantastic Vanuatu buzz and perfect for booze replacement!
Check out the below Instant Kava recipes clips that you can use Instant kava with:
Instant Kava has been around since the very early 00's. It began with a guy in Vanuatu called James Armitage tinkering around with ways to make kava easily accessible and quick to prepare. James was working for a kava processor exporting milled dried kava powder. He started to think that this is not how kava is drunk in Vanuatu. In Vanuatu, kava is prepared using the fresh green root. But this couldn't be exported for both microbial and national IP reasons. So how could people experience the fresh green kava effect?
He began to tinker around with fresh green kava juice and how to separate the active component (kavalactones) and the other parts of kava juice that work with it. He came up with an idea that used a centrifugal process to separate the water from the juice, leaving only the good stuff left.
That worked.... but he was left with a goooey mess. So he dried it out into a powder. He then milled it added it to some water and BINGO! Whilst not exactly water soluble, the effect was immediate and heady like al good Vanuatu kava. Then came the clincher.... and end product of this could make kava quick and easy to prepare. Living in Vanuatu this hadn't be at the forefront of James mind. After all kava bars prepare kava for their customers. BUT with dried kava powder being exported end users in the US and EU had to prepare their own kava.
Now here was a product (albeit still in its infancy) that allowed people to have kava ready to go in 10 seconds!
Obviously since then, the product has developed and the process is being used by a couple of Vanuatu manufacturers now. So next time you have a shell, have one in honour of the Instant Kava inventor and round kava guru James Armitage!
