dWarrior88,
Swim would take easy on heat when brewing p.viridis and would also make short 'pulls' out of it, lets say 3-4x 20-30min, with minimal water, then reduce that water down to wanted amount with low heat. In a otherhand caapi can boil with higher heat without any problems, 3x3h would do it, less would do for sure, but dont take too big shortcuts. And caapi can be reduced with higer heat, but when its almost at the end, last litre do it with milder heat, just because you dont want to caramelize your caapi either, tastes bad, but no worries it works for sure even if caramelized.
Aluminum is not to be used just because acid content of that brew and it might or will leak stuff in your brew and its harmful for your body, but in Amazon they use that aluminum cookware, just because they dont know better, but they dont use acid when they brew either. But swim never has confirmed that aluminum is harmfull, so dont take word on that.
Swim would go for higer dose of caapi, around 100g, depending of it streangth, but 100g would be nice even if its in stronger end. Dont know too much about P.Viridis, done it few times, with very little succes, but this dosent mean that it wont work for you, its just that swim prefers chaliponga, just because there is less material to work with, makes everything so much easier.
And sometimes Yage or Ayahuasca just wont work, there might be several reasons, but you really should not eat much that day, maybe one or two bananas, drink a lot of water, but stop that 1h before drinking that brew. You should make few dosages for your evening, so if the first one wont work within 2h, take a new dose. And that is just perfectly normal, next time you might have exactly same dose, but it works with the first one already and next time it might take two doses again, that is just how it works. But to overcome this it is helpful to have extra doses on your side.
Other thing that swim learned from jungles of Colombia, that you can preserve that brew too and it stays active for quite long time. This should apply for bigger doses swim would say, but basicly you take your final brew, lets say 1kg caapi and 1kg P.viridis reduced to around 700ml, then you would add runny honey in it, till its really syrupy, quite thick goo, so it might take more honey, but longes there is loads of it, it should preserve well. Swim knows Taita(shaman in colombia) that had this big container full of yage and it was preserved with honey that way, its hard to drink, but that honey gives you that extra sugar rush and swim felt that helped that brew to kick in. And that actually reminds swim from one fact that has happend few times while taking Yage, some times you wait 2h and there is no effect at all, but then you end up eating something really tiny, bite of carrot well chewed or banana, why not honey too, but then just out of blue that brew kicks in, so eating something might help sometimes.
But its gonna be journey it self to discover your own way to brew and its furstrating sometimes and money consuming, but worth of it, when you make your first breaktrough!
So good luck with your project.
