I proudly overfilter - so my caapi tea that was in the freezer - was clear as day.
on thawing it - i noticed precip - on freezing - there is now a gradient from light at the top(yellowish) to red(particulate) on the bottom.
what changed - and what precipped ?

I have been doing this for years. Many types of brews clears up by freezing it, then thawing it. If the brew heats back up to room temperature, some of the precipitates may go back into solution. This happens with mimosa.

Caapi can be made clear by using this method. With both caapi and mimosa there will be a gradient of colouring, with the lightest colour on top, and the darkest colour on the bottom. This is actually a way of removing some of the colouring. With mimosa you can remove much of the red colour by using this method. Freeze it in a bottle, then put it upside down over a jar. Let about 10% thaw and drip out. This will be very dark in colour. I have tried this with caapi too, but what drips out seems to be VERY concentrated actives instead.

I concur. This cold protein break is also commonly used in beer making. The boiled wort (= beer before yeast addition and fermantation) is rapidly cooled down to cause this cold break and in the end of the line makes a more clearer, more transparent beer.

Damm, someone beat me there. And I thought there would never be an opportunity to spill my brewing knowledge on the nexus.

Maybe it would be a good idea to add irish moss when preparing caapi tea, or even when making aya ...

Then apply a fining agent like bentonite or irish moss that precipitates positively charged particles, such as dmt as it

Infundibulum wrote:
Then apply a fining agent like bentonite or irish moss that precipitates positively charged particles, such as dmt as it

Beat you to this again (From there

maybe we could make some beer making subsection (in the Other Psychoactives session?)

Infundibulum - Irish moss attracts however positively charged particles, such as alkaloids dissolved in acidic solution. Might be good for precipitating the actives but not for clearing the brew...