I have this problem too! This is my first year with real filters, a wool cone and prefilter, and a big flat (orlon?) filter and flat prefilters.
I filtered it boiling into a big coffe urn and then bottled in mason jars, and it looked fine until about a week or two later when now I can see just a small fine mist of sediment in each jar.
Guess I'll try this settling trick next year, thanks.
What if I let it settle in the urn? Will the flow out the spigot draw sediment up? Or should I just siphon from the top?
Rochdale, Central Mass.
Zero taps for 2016.
Still have plenty of syrup from last year.
6.72 kW solar array, and on our second Nissan Leaf all electric car.