It's all about Maple Syrup !! and Just Syrup [Archive]

Hydrometer reading differently in cup vs pot (22 replies)
Slightly overcooked sap (5 replies)
Question about crystalized syrup (4 replies)
Yellow tinged/cloudy sap (1 replies)
Questionable sap quality… (3 replies)
Figuring out how close I am to syrup (2 replies)
Farm chemicals (2 replies)
Syrup losing it’s clarity over time (8 replies)
Buying Sap (7 replies)
lead restrictions (3 replies)
Syrup produced by steam boiling (7 replies)
Open Houses (3 replies)
Margin of error for bottling density (1 replies)
Can I add some leftover syrup from last year into my final boil without quality loss? (3 replies)
Sap was running then quit (11 replies)
#1 reason for delicious but Less Maple-y maple syrup (28 replies)
Post bourbon barrel aging density (3 replies)
Selling sap ? (3 replies)
Maple syrup sludge worse than other years? (7 replies)
Campden Tablets to prevent sap from spoiling? (8 replies)
First batch (3 replies)
Fermented syrup prices for bear bait? (1 replies)
syrup season (1 replies)
syrup season (0 replies)
MES App for smartphones (7 replies)
sa[ weather (1 replies)
Maple Syrup Lost its Taste? (6 replies)
5 year old syrup. Would it still be OK? (3 replies)
Ideas on why there's no sap (6 replies)
Simplest Party Appetizer and Yummy! (0 replies)
Upcoming Maple Production seminars in WV and KY (0 replies)
How is this legal? (11 replies)
Wood question (9 replies)
Champlain Valley Fair -- Oops! (21 replies)
Just cleaned my pan last week (2 replies)
Sensor detects sap that produces off flavor syrup (2 replies)
Cold Brewing syrup (1 replies)
Describing grades/flavors to people (10 replies)
Sand in bottle after canning (5 replies)
Scorched Pan and the Syrup- Now what ? (12 replies)
Wayyy overcooked - did I save it? (10 replies)
How much syrup to give land owner (16 replies)
Post your results - Syrup statistics and setups (31 replies)
Can you freeze sap after boiling? (3 replies)
Maple-pocalypse? Syrup looks like the latest victim of climate change (16 replies)
maple sap flow (3 replies)
Niter coming through filter (5 replies)
Newbie to making syrup (4 replies)
Best digital thermometer for boiling / finishing (2 replies)
Barrel aging question (1 replies)
Sap hydrometer correction chart? (4 replies)
Is it really worth sugaring in the 2023 season?? (13 replies)
How much cold to recharge trees? (11 replies)
Is All "Maple Syrup" Pure Maple Syrup? (7 replies)
canning syrup (9 replies)
Southern Ohio starting off big (7 replies)
working in woods (3 replies)
Anyone panicking yet? (8 replies)
Smoked Maple Syrup (4 replies)
Cooking Time for Maple Syrup? (9 replies)
Red Maple Syrup Preference? (2 replies)
Drought and the Impact on Sap Production (14 replies)
converting from wood to oil.... (5 replies)
Barrel Aged Maple Syrup (4 replies)
Correcting Syrup Density (2 replies)
Maple Grades (5 replies)
Syrup Tasting Certification (1 replies)
Dark syrup is dark syrup is dark syrup?? (18 replies)
End of Year Syrup pan Sweet (15 replies)
Number of Taps vs Finished Quarts (13 replies)
SLIGHTLY ropey syrup? (6 replies)
Do you have a certain cut off number for dark syrup that you sell (2 replies)
Amber sap? (3 replies)
A filtering Mystery (21 replies)
what's the actual rope? (6 replies)
Syrup Grades (5 replies)
correction from yesterday (1 replies)
Very old trees - inconsistent taps (1 replies)
sugar content (1 replies)
Anyone else worried about the forecast for the coming week? (15 replies)
Fuel prices really hurting this year (1 replies)
Freezing sap question (0 replies)
Any upcoming syrup contests for 2022??? (3 replies)
ANTS!!!!! In my sap.... (6 replies)
Grading syrup on the border of grades (5 replies)
how long can sweet pans sit? (4 replies)
Sap color (4 replies)
Burnt (3 replies)
What causes huge amounts of sugar sand? (8 replies)
Syrup jar sealing question. (2 replies)
Sap to syrup ratio question. (7 replies)
Sugar content in sap ice (3 replies)
Walnut woes (5 replies)
Cold last night, warm today, tonight, tomorrow - What will happen tomorrow? (2 replies)
metallicy syrup (5 replies)
Air over fire (11 replies)
Novice syrup hydrometer question. (11 replies)
Weatherbell (6 replies)
How were the conferences - Syracuse & Vernon (4 replies)
Mid-winter maple classic (3 replies)
Sap Boil Time for Steam Pans (9 replies)
Nutrition Labels - Grams of Sugar and a Brix discrepancy?? (1 replies)
Long range winter forecast and what does that mean for the sap run? (76 replies)
50 million pounds of syrup released! (15 replies)
Slight burned taste - old “grade B”? To sell (7 replies)
Kentucky Maple Programming (0 replies)
Bulk syrup (18 replies)
Bourbon flavor (10 replies)
Open tap holes...... (7 replies)
Barrel-Aged Syrup QUESTIONS??? (8 replies)
Rate of growth of sugar maples..... (7 replies)
Underproducing trees...I tap, no sap! (8 replies)
Name Your Favorite Way to Enjoy Maple Syrup (11 replies)
Tree trunks don't grow up (11 replies)
The taste of niter (8 replies)
Too Hot or Too Cold? (1 replies)
State by State Production 2021 (4 replies)
Last sap boil. After taste? (5 replies)
Canning temperatures (1 replies)
Foaming like crazy (26 replies)
How to make syrup darker?? (7 replies)
Shurflo diaphragm pump vacuum (1 replies)
Boiled past syrup - fixing it makes it worse? (9 replies)
Do I have a serious problem? (3 replies)
Finally made some decent syrup, and people want the old stuff ...:rolleyes: (5 replies)
R.O. Question (11 replies)
who quits when "that smell" starts sneaking into the steam? (14 replies)
2021 Low Sugar Content (1 replies)
Bulk prices (29 replies)
Leaking bags (4 replies)
Bottling below 180 F (11 replies)
Storing concentrate (3 replies)
Boiling Questions (4 replies)
Infusing maple syrup? (8 replies)
At what brix do you use your orlon filter? (2 replies)
Finishing a pan of sap in a divided pan. (2 replies)
Metabolism (8 replies)
Please Help with refractometer Brix not matching temp and I'm trying to finish today (17 replies)
Syrup Prices (3 replies)
Will the addiction ever be satisfied?? (24 replies)
Have you ever seen one of these? (6 replies)
Syrup bottle shelf life? (7 replies)
Dark syrup from clear sap? (4 replies)
Sludge, smootz, and scum (5 replies)
How Long Can I store Sap? (4 replies)
Brown Sap...WHOA!!! (10 replies)
Batch boil? (3 replies)
Maple Syrup and Boy Scouts (9 replies)
Specific gravity readings (4 replies)
Trees not producing yet?? (7 replies)
Stored bucket of syrup smells fermented (6 replies)
Strange film on a sealed bottle ? (7 replies)
GREAT resource on UTube - University of Vermont (0 replies)
Tree recharge (3 replies)
Figuring GPT numbers (17 replies)
walnut vacuum (7 replies)
What makes syrup spoil? what did i do wrong? (10 replies)
What IS this in my pan???? (1 replies)
Off flavors/aromas, sources, and remedies (32 replies)
sugar shack snack shop snapshot (0 replies)
how early is too early? (19 replies)
OMG-Once again I'm reminded of why I do this (1 replies)
Looking into our future sugar season (8 replies)
Basic flat pan question (7 replies)
2020 Kentucky Maple Syrup School (0 replies)
Finding good sap wood on older tree? (10 replies)
Online Maple History Presentation - September 9th - 7:00 pm EDT (0 replies)
Will this tree survive? (5 replies)
A&A Metal Shop in PA - out of businesses or open? (4 replies)
Maple leaf outline (10 replies)
Aunt Jemima Axed When People Realize its NOT Maple Syrup (1 replies)
A Different Type of "Cloudy" - HELP (10 replies)
cleaning evaporato (24 replies)
2020 record year for Kaiser Farms LLC! (3 replies)
What happened to my batch? (14 replies)
Shelf life of syrup at room temperature (6 replies)
Cant believe this!! (15 replies)
Syrup color (16 replies)
Bubbly Syrup (5 replies)
Confused (23 replies)
Anyone Done This Before? (8 replies)
Heating for bottling (6 replies)
Thanks!! (1 replies)
A short season (11 replies)
Low sugar content (8 replies)
Anyone give up on sap bags? (20 replies)
Little help with cloudy syrup (11 replies)
Buckets and taps - worth replacing for one last run? (1 replies)
Pricing (3 replies)
Norway maple sap (3 replies)
Weird Bottle Question. (14 replies)
How to eliminate an odd aftertaste (5 replies)
What is Niter? (2 replies)
Question for those on buckets (3 replies)
Syrup boiling in bottle, long time after bottling (14 replies)
New here and new Maker (5 replies)
Sap sugar content relation to freezing nights? (16 replies)
Does anybody use a portable induction cooktop for boiling small batches (5 replies)
Persistent warm weather in MA :-( (16 replies)
Burnt taste (2 replies)
Understanding the Murphy Compensation Cup (25 replies)
What caused this cloudy syrup and how to prevent it in the future? (13 replies)
Second year run results (1 replies)
sap amounts differing greatly..... (2 replies)
Thermometer (1 replies)
Grades (3 replies)
Burning sap?? (3 replies)
Storing hot syrup in 5 gallon food-grade bucket (8 replies)
How do I know if my sap has spoiled? (10 replies)
Uncontrollable bubbles (6 replies)
Filtering question (2 replies)
That didn't take long.. (8 replies)
A tiny bit of sap (0 replies)
Off-taste sap/syrup (10 replies)
Spring Peepers Signal The End of Sugaring Season (8 replies)
Dark Syrup; Time in the evaporator (5 replies)
Ugh, syrup hydrometer cracked.... (7 replies)
Our village trees (0 replies)
Disappointing sap sugar % (17 replies)
Buddy syrup vs commercial grade? (7 replies)
Repackaging syrup (2 replies)
Electricity (11 replies)
Looking for way to store hydrometer between tests that is clumsiness proof (17 replies)
syrup darkness..... (3 replies)
Selling unfilterd maple syrup (10 replies)
Finishing Syrup Exploding in Pan! (13 replies)
Maple Syrup Myths? (16 replies)
What’s your best %? (16 replies)
Explosive bubbles (4 replies)
Done in Southern Ohio (1 replies)
Best way to boil 40-60 gallons of sap on a weekend (10 replies)
My Farm and Kiddos made it into The New York Times (1 replies)
UV lights (3 replies)
Tap root question (7 replies)
Snow melt at the base of the tree (4 replies)
What Happened??? (27 replies)
Very lite (2 replies)
It's a sweet dilemma (3 replies)
Math Question (10 replies)
New to Tapping and Weeping Holes (13 replies)
Tap holes drying out. (31 replies)
what to do with off flavored syrup (2 replies)
Tapping at kids school (12 replies)
Whats With the White Stuff? (1 replies)
Anyone tapping on 2/8/2020? (8 replies)
Sap Sacks Hanging Crooked - Running On the GROUND! (20 replies)
Sugar houses in Richmond Kentucky (0 replies)
Uses of sap (1 replies)
Upstate NY. 1st boil (1 replies)
How early to start tapping? (1 replies)