The neon green and blue lights of Brew & Root illuminate the sidewalk of University Avenue.
Inside, people sit at the bar and surrounding tables, spreading out their laptops and coffee cups under low lighting. Alternative music streams through the speakers; the TV plays reruns of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
Brew & Root is a new coffee shop and kava bar that launched Jan. 1 at 615 W. University Ave. It serves coffee, tea, kombucha, kratom and kava…