brainsand said:
reduced
it is always reduced
low water with water added as it gets to low as it boils
he does not want to have to reduce it on burner scared of heat killing tdmt
Ok,
It is always wise to do an egg white filtration with unreduced brew. Before filtering and before reduction is when I hear of most people doing this (and is when I do mine). Any filtering AFTER reduction will filter out some of your goodies and is not recomended.
The idea is that when you reduce the brew it becomes over saturated and some of the actives fall out of solution. If you filter these, you are filtering out your spice.
Egg white filtration works ok for mimosa, not as well as Viridis or Caapi, but it will remove some of the astringancy. I suggest doing it right after straining your mimosa bark out of the acidified brew. You obviously know that your liquid needs to be acidic enough or your eggwhite will not clump up. All of it should form a gel on the top of your brew. Heat is recommended.
There is a wonderful discussion about eggwhite filtration over at the ayahuasca forum
here and
here, you need to be a member to access it.
Shamans in the amazon will boil the hell out of their brew without any loss of potency. Many shamans say that the magic of the brew comes from the bubbles!
Most brews use massive amounts of water reduced to a few 100 mL. I wouldn't worry too much about losing spice due to boiling. More is lost due to an inefficient extraction.
Read up on making the brew as much as you can. There is a lot of good info around. Rue and mimosa do work well together and give more consistant results over caapi/leaf. I believe you can make a more efficient brew by a) increasing your volume of water while brewing b) increasing the amount of time the mimosa is brewing c) doing more than 1 acid water extraction on mimosa d) doing the filtrations during the right stage