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Kava Orange Dream
If you buy one can, make it Kava Orange Dream. Bright sparkling orange up front, kava's soft earthy note underneath, 50 calories and zero alcohol. It's the can we hand every first-timer.
Shop Orange DreamZero alcohol · Ships direct from Botanical BrewingSomewhere between the third latte and the second glass of wine, people started reaching for something else.
Kava bars are filling up in beach towns and strip malls. Bartenders are building zero-proof menus on purpose, not as an afterthought. And the cans in the fridge door look a lot more interesting than plain seltzer.
These are botanical drinks made from plants people have been drinking for centuries: kava root from the South Pacific, kanna from South Africa, kratom leaf from Southeast Asia. This is our field guide to the new evening drink, and the cans we would buy first.
The cans in our fridge.
All from Botanical Brewing Co., the brand we reach for first. Prices are per pack, straight from the brewery.
The 6pm can.
The laptop's closed. The commute is over. For a lot of people that moment used to mean a beer. Now it means cracking a can of kava: sparkling, citrusy, and made from a root South Pacific islanders have shared at the end of the day for centuries.
Orange Dream is where we tell everyone to start. Bright orange up front, kava's soft earthy note underneath, 50 calories, zero alcohol.
The dinner-party can.
Kanna is a South African succulent with a long history of traditional use, now sold in a handful of alcohol-free sparkling cans. Never with antidepressants; adults 21+.
Pomegranate Fusion is pomegranate and raspberry, sparkling, and it looks good on a table next to the wine glasses nobody is filling.
The tropical one.
Botanical Brewing's elixirs are brewed with kratom leaf and labeled by leaf color (white, green and red), each in a different fruit flavor. Kratom is for adults 21+, can be habit-forming with regular use, and isn't sold in every state.
Island Breeze is the white one: mango and passion fruit, sparkling, and the most tropical can in the lineup.
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