I have been reading from some users here that they theorize that the sediment itself actually contains DMT actives, and to remove the sediment or not drink the sediment greatly reduces the potency of the experience.
What they recommend is to simply shake it and drink it with the sediment in there.
Multiple users, from what I gather from reading the forums, have reported noticeably stronger experiences from when they simply shook the brew and drank the sediment in comparison to using a decant/filtration technique, as you described.
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I know you're very knowledgeable and experienced and have been doing this a while. Do you have any opinion on this? Have you ever tried several brews with a sediment and then without the sediment to gauge and experience the difference? What do you think?
It does appear that way, any cleaning of the brew, whether by freezing/thawing/filtering or by using egg whites, can seemingly reduce the potency slightly, however i have also read that if you use some acidity, it can convert the DMT into say DMT Citrate, or DMT Acetate, or DMT Ascorbate (depending on which acid you use, like Citric Acid, or Vinegar, or Ascorbic Acid) rather than the DMT Tannate it may be in naturally within the plants, so that the DMT is no longer attached to the tannins and becomes more absorbed into the water, which might separate it from the tannins so that the tannins can be filtered out.
Another thing to do would be to only filter the brew when it's diluted, like as diluted as possible, so that any potency lost through the clean up steps/filtering, is minimal.
You can also filter out the plant sediment, and then redissolve it in fresh water, and then when diluted you filter out the crud and then add that liquid back to the main brew and reduce to final volume.
There are ways to minimize potency loss while making a pretty clean tea, and imo it's worth it because the alternative is a raw brew which is very difficult to drink, for me at least, and even if i have to sacrifice a few grams when making a clean bulk tea, i'd rather do that than not be able to drink it at all, because even a small sip of raw brew makes me insta-gag and throw up, i just can not drink it without cleaning it up.
Overall, if you're looking for simplicity and less effort, an extraction of the DMT from the plant materials is probably your best bet, so long as you can extract all the DMT from the plant materials, then you won't lose any potency and can easily consume the DMT whether encapsulated or dissolved into some sort of liquid. But, if you don't want to extract and just want to consume the plants themselves, a clean tea is the best way, and it can taste just like water, depending on how clean you get it (while minimizing potency loss).
But yeah i've had that thought too, that with the sediment in the tea shaken up and consumed, it is stronger than tea without sediment, which is why it's recommended to convert the DMT Tannate into some acidic salt form of DMT, and to filter while the brew is diluted and not when it is concentrated.
