Caapi Tea separations... Who's in there????

[WSaged]

I have a jar of B.Caapi (only) tea sitting in the back of my fridge, that has been there for about 4-5 months.
It was made using the Cold Filter Extraction method (The Herbal Percolator), with just water & a tiny bit of Phosphoric Acid to acidify the pH of the water a little (used in brewing beer & making wine etc...).
Then I used 1/2 an egg white to filter out the tannins etc... And filtered out the egg white completely!!
I tried it soon after I made it & it was definitely active, quite potent even.

So it has now been sitting undissturbed for long enough that there is a nice sized layer of something collected on the bottom.
I attached some pics. (sorry for the shitty res.)

I'm wondering if this is the Harmala Alkaloids collecting on the bottom.
It didn't start showing for about a month & a half, or longer.
I have screwed up the filtering of the egg white before & it looked somewhat similar, but it fell out of the solution in a few hours, not months. Also, this looks more like solids. Wet, saturated solids, but solids.
More like the purple dirt that adds up on the bottom of a flask of acidic Mimosa water, after sitting in the fridge over night.

So What do you guys think??

If it is Harmalas falling out of the tea, could I carefully decant off the golden liquid, collect & dry these for use?

Thanks!!

WS

 

[prottel]

Once I tried tasting some of the particles that had fallen out of a caapi solution. It did not really taste anything. Then I added some acidified water to the particles and heated it up. It tasted really bitter. So, I would think it is possible that it may be actives falling out of solution. Just not sure which active, if it is harmine, THH or both.

Perhaps remove some of it and reconstitute some in acidified water and see how it tastes? Should be bitter if it is actives.

 

[soulfood]

I thought harmalas were soluble in acidic solutions?

 

[WSaged]

I thought harmalas were soluble in acidic solutions?

They are, but this is a highly reduced down (but well filtered...)Caapi tea, that has been sitting, totally undisturbed for 4 to 5 months.
Things are pulled down after too long.
Normally you need to mix up the liquid before use because of this, but this stuff is whiter & finer than what usually falls out after a few days.

It was 200g of B.Caapi with about 3x 5000ml of water percolated through it.
Then reduced to about 2000ml.
Cleaned with 1/2 an egg white.
Filtered like a mutha fuka!!
Reduced down to about 500ml.
Filtered again & again until very transparent & a nice gold color.
20-to-30ml is a potent MAOI for vaporized DMT
60-to-80ml can be effective by itself.

Thanks!!

WS