There is a cloud in my syrup!

[Baub]

Just getting back into boiling this year. My first batch, I finished on the kitchen stove (using a digital thermometer), filtered through a commercial fryer grease filter, and put up in canning jars (which were heated to 190 deg in a water bath). The result was perfect in my eyes, totally clear amber.

Followed the same procedure with the second batch, but this time, I got a slightly darker cloud swirling in the middle of the jar. Let the pints set for several days, and that cloud slowly settled towards the bottom, but it has not formed a coating on the bottom, just hung near there. You can see it in the picture below.

Any ideas what it might be?

Thanks!

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[PerryW]

I'd still guess it's nitre that hasn't finished settling out. (I'm assuming you used a clean grease filter to start with)

[derekp]

I had the same thing happen to only one of my bottles the other night..and it was in the middle of the batch I was bottling..still trying to figure it out...syrup went through 3 prefilters and a synthetic cone filter...whole batch was good but one liter bottle was cloudy...it looks like large snowflakes in the syrup until it settles and it is transparent...crystalized sugar??and mine as well settled to the middle of the bottle..

[Baub]

It's weird... this darker mass is still on the bottom of the pint canning jar. It looks like a soft Brillo pad. If I tip the jar 90 deg to the side, the edge folds over.

Maybe when the season is over, I will re-heat and filter again.

[ShLUbY]

i'd just open that jar and add it to the next batch you do when it's close to syrup so it can be refiltered. i did that with a half gallon of syrup that was cloudy because i hadnt used the thicker synthetic filter. worked perfect, no niter, no cloud, just nice and clear :)