Bad DE or DE that didn't work?

[SmellsLikeSyrupNH]

I brought some syrup over to a buddy of mine today who offered to run it through his filter press. I brought my own bag of DE that I bought online from Amazon that is food grade. We filtered 10 gallons using his DE with no problems. That I said let's use the stuff I brought so you don't have to use all of your supplies. The color was different it was slightly tan as opposed to his which was pure white. As soon as we started mixing it in the syrup we noticed that it wasn't dissolving into the syrup like his would. Then we tried to run it through the press and no luck at all, it clogged everything and just started making the pressure increase on his press. The syrup was only coming out of his overflow hose and would not go through the filter. Has anyone else ever had this happen? Is this batch of syrup ruined now? I am really upset because it was over 10 gallons of syrup that is now affected.

I am headed home now and going to try using my normal prefilters and synthetic wool and see if it will work.

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[SmellsLikeSyrupNH]

This is the brand I used

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[mellondome]

Let it settle to the bottom and pour off the syrup and have anothet go at it... only this time use the stuff that is sold by maple producers and suppliers.
What you have was intended to be fed to your chickens.

[maple flats]

DE comes in many grades and degrees of fineness. That is no good for filtering syrup. Only use DE from a maple supply and none other.
Lesson learned, move on.

[SmellsLikeSyrupNH]

If it was only that simple, it's almost 20% of my total yield for the season.


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[nymapleguy607]

Just re filter the syrup using the correct ground DE, you havent ruined the syrup. Just added more stuff that needs to be filtered out.