Reddish/brown Kratom

[KennyOmitra]

I’ve heard it referred to as fermented or sometimes labeled as bentuangie. What are your thoughts on this type of Kratom? A few years ago I would see i on gold, yellow, or bentuangie strains. These days I even see it when I get Reds.

It has never quite popped for me. Does anyone have any suggestions? Do you need to take a little more than usual or less to make this more effective? Does it work better as blend with more greenish color strains? Interested on any thoughts. Thanks!

[StringThing]

I like bentuangies but I don't really notice a difference in effects from say, a strong red. I think the fermentation helps it to 'mature' the alkaloids and break them down in the same way that leaves on the tree mature from white>green>red.

Not a fan of the taste

[Joshgreenhorn]

Most people take a little more of dark leaf. I can add up to 2g if it's been fermented. Great for pain.

[Sanbutsushin]

Golds and yellows aren't literally gold or yellow or even brownish in my experience but it also depends on the vendor because different vendors have different ways of classifying what a yellow or gold is.

I have some brownish leaf in my stash and as far as I can remember it's all fermented stuff, though sun-drying the leaves also changes their color that way iirc. I take them the same way I take anything else. You don't need to blend it if you don't want to. If it's not working for you try more, if that doesn't work then try less. There's no hard and fast rule really. Maybe put it away and come back to it later since there's that mysterious kratom phenomenon where some leaf that doesn't work for us at first will magically feel better down the line?

It could also just be that the stuff is low-quality. I myself am not sure how to differentiate between "bad-quality brown" and "fermented brown" apart from actually using it and noting whether it does anything or not.

[HeatherLelane]

I love bents/browns/chocolates for pain, to help relax enough to sleep, or to mix in a blend for an anxiolytic relief. It will not give me euphoria. Ever. I don't "feel" it like I do other colors. I even take some when I've gotten the wobbles, it's so mellow it seems to counteract other leaf. But when I have bad pain days, I turn to it. It's simply the best for that. And like I said, I also like to mix it with a good anxiolytic yellow for extra rough anxiety.

[gumbyke1]

I’ve heard it referred to as fermented or sometimes labeled as bentuangie. What are your thoughts on this type of Kratom? A few years ago I would see i on gold, yellow, or bentuangie strains. These days I even see it when I get Reds.

It has never quite popped for me. Does anyone have any suggestions? Do you need to take a little more than usual or less to make this more effective? Does it work better as blend with more greenish color strains? Interested on any thoughts. Thanks!

Most (not all) of the "brown powder" floating around the market isn't Bentuangie/Fermented at all, but instead its low-quality tarp-dried leaf (dried in the sun = heavily oxidized = brown powder). That doesn't mean all brown powders are bad, there are some techniques to create some very nice brown powders and true bents.... but that's a small percentage of the brown powders out there.

I dont know how to tell a "good brown" by looks or smell, but If you buy from some of the smaller specialty vendors that are popular on this forum, you will have much better luck than with the "browns" than if you pick some up at the headshop.


Most people (including many vendors) do know the difference between a bent and oxidized batch. If you want a full breakdown of bents vs oxidized batches, check out the last post I wrote on the post linked below. Just scroll down to the section that says "Are any of those fermented?".


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