Why you have to put it in the fridge. Keep it at room temp for it to settle or out in the garage. It takes a long time for it to spoil as its so high in sugar. After a week pour it off and heat it up and bottle. You running into what I ran into the syrup cools in the filter and gels. I had to finally make something that the cone filter fit inside of well filtering and it all goes through now with it being kept warm.