So I brewed both caapi and chacruna separately the other day. After placing them in jars and in the fridge there is a great deal of sediment that had settled and collected at the bottom of the jars. It is about half the total.volume for each brew.

When I brewed I only filtered it through a T-shirt once each brew. I've read teks that say to filter multiple.times but others don't say this.

Should I in fact filter this more to remove this or is it OK to just drink it as is.

I like to filter with a funnel and a cotton ball

I'd stick to only filtering your caapi brew before you reduce. As the liquid evaporates even if it's sediment free, more will start to come out. You can re-brew the sediment once or trice & filter or save it for extraction later.
Chacruna you can filter after reduction.

i do what you did, strain through a t-shirt before reducing but not after, embrace the sediment, just think of it like OJ with the bits, mmmmmmmmmmm yummy

I heard a story from Terrence mckenna in some recorded interview where he was going to drink some ayahuasca that had been in his refrigerator for some time, a layer of sediment had settled to the bottom of the glass bottle which held the yage, he said he could not remember if he was told to "always" shake then serve or "never" shake then serve, he said he shook the bottle and poured out his dose into a cup then he drank it. He reported the trip to be VERY intense. So perhaps if you are looking for an intense experiance leaving this sediment in would not be a bad thing.

-EG

Filter/clean once.
Don't filter after you have reduced the brew!

The remaining sediment makes the brew. Don't complain about ayahuasca "not working" if you filter out the last sediment.

At the free ceremonys i have been to the rest is considered to be the best . Maybe its a saturated solution where bits " fall " out ?

Allowing a brew to settle in the fridge for 1 week allows the nausea causing sediment and tannins to fall to the bottom, allowing one to decant off the top liquid from the sediment. This process is long in the fridge in a very tall tall mason jar (1.5 to 2 liter masons wori the best), I have used the method for years, it does actually take about 7 days, but works. The tannins in the brew irritate the intestines causing one to throw up or become nauseated, some people like this effect, others not so much, everyone's preference is different.

If you don't like nausea causing sediment or tannins in your caapi brew, i've seen 'pure alkaloid caapi extracts' (just google) on the net for less than six dollars, the extracts give me zero nausea even at 280-350mg, highly recommended if you have a sensitive stomach like myself. For many years I used to brew caapi and let it sit in the fridge for a week to let the sediment settle to the bottom, but now I find extracts of the woody vine to be just as effective and nausea free as the way I used to brew using the fridge for a week. I learned how to brew some 10 years ago by following the methods of Sync and Meteor and Napolean Blownapart at the old classic ayahuasca forums. I start early in the day, first I pray and walk in nature for an hour, then take the 1 and 1/5th extract early in the afternoon for an all day strong vine presence. I have been learning to cope with the death of a beloved one for several months now, and I find walking for long periods, solitude and taking a heavy caapi brew or extract every 2 weeks to help immensely. Death and Loss is very difficult, it is something that I don't think anyone ever gets over. A person carries it with themselves for the rest of their life, but rest assured that life continues after death, for all of God's living creatures, so said Pope Frances recently to a crying boy whose dog died on the news just the other week, and I trust the Pope.