I tried again today, did 4 stovetop water simmer extractions with less total water. The resulting brew is fairly dark brown and although I wouldn't say it's very bitter, it is somewhat bitter. I also brewed the amount I did yesterday in 2 batches, all in one batch. Just drank half and will wait a while to drink the other half, just in case the pods I selected are substantially more potent than the ones yesterday.
My girlfriend will also be home by the time it has a chance to come on (she'll be home in 2 hours and I just drank the first half) in case it ends up being super strong to the point I need assistance. I got spooked reading about accidental overdoses yesterday, lol. Though I have a pretty hefty tolerance. I brewed 13 grams of pods, which was quite a lot of pods (I have pretty small ones mostly). I ground them up very finely, and squeezed them out after each extraction, and this time I did not keep the plant material in, but tossed it once it was spent (yesterday the feeling of a gut full of plant material was unpleasant). The 4th extraction's water was mostly clear, the first 2 were quite brown. The brew in the mug is pretty dark brown, though partly see-through up to about a centimeter or so down.
I have enough for like 8 grams some other time. Wasn't going to dose 2 days in a row, was going to wait another day but I have band practice tomorrow and I don't want to end up too sedated for that. Glad I don't have more and even these 2 and a half doses worth was quite expensive. I need to start weaning down from kratom after this again, I'm trying to be off opioids but all the pod talk made me have to try since I have never had pods (that is my rationalization and I'm sticking to it). I have had poppy seeds uncountable times, and back in the day I used to have access to insanely cheap, strong seeds. I was addicted to them for years, was my favorite opioid. Got to where I was dosing over 2 pounds per day, and these seeds were strong, one tenth of the dose I was taking would get my friend who was an IV heroin addict for years (but not at the time) on the verge of too high. I actually went cold turkey off of daily seed use before, somehow made it through with only kava. It was super shitty, and lasted 3 weeks until I felt decent again.
Last night I had a very nice time once I went up to bed, I stayed up for a couple of hours reading my book (the 6th Dune book), I was very high, semi-nodding, wrapped in a warm blanket opioid effect, which has to have been mostly from the pods as I never nod from kratom, I did dose a bit of kratom twice after dosing the pods yesterday which somewhat increased the effects but certainly not enough to account for nodding. It had been so long that I felt sure I wasn't going to get much from them, when I chose to add kratom. It really took a shockingly long time to reach full effect, I was surprised.