A kava bar in the United States, a nakamal in Vanuatu and that “baby mix” any day of the week in Fiji all share one thing in common: kava. Not just any kava, what’s in demand is quality kava. Quality ...

Starting a small business is challenging enough, but opening a beverage shop during a pandemic has presented a slew of new hardships for the owners of Pacific Kava, Pensacola's first kava shop. This ...

Kava (Piper methysticum) is a plant native to the Pacific islands. Its roots are dried, crushed, and mixed with water which turns it into a non-alcoholic drink with sedative and stress relieving ...

Kava's reach has expanded from a cultural drink widely consumed in the Pacific islands to Australia, where it is drunk at kava bars and sold in anti-anxiety pills. The former deputy prime minister was ...

It's an evening ritual familiar in towns and villages across Vanuatu. Before sunset, many people stop for "mae taem" — having a shell of kava and some conversation with friends. The beverage is woven ...

With little of the homemade Pacific brew available in Australia, prices have skyrocketed, and there’s been a spike in seizures at the border The questions are asked quietly, but urgently: “Kava, do ...

You might be hearing more about kava over coming months, the psychoactive drink better known in the Pacific, but becoming more widely available in Australia. How it’s imported and regulated has ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It is one month since the Australian Government began a trial to ease restrictions on imports of kava ...

Pacific kava is in high demand, after the opening of Australian markets to commercial imports, raising hopes for increased interest across other global markets in Asia, North America, and the European ...

It looks like old washing up water and tastes little better, but for centuries kava has underpinned the cultural traditions of South Pacific peoples living at home and abroad. The murky liquid is ...