Eastern Township Quebec 2024

[PiperHill]

Good Evening,

Tapping will be Wednesday, by mid next week Weather will be perfect with a windows of 10 days for now.

Stay tunes …boiling is coming.

Erick

[PiperHill]

Good day,

Tapping completed.

Interesting fact with this year snow cover my taps are 2 ft lower than previous year and some tree almost 3ft. The snow was so hard i did not have my snowshoes.

Next step waiting for the SAP to clean the line and see how my vacuum.

Everything look for a quick season with a abrupt end.

Have fun!
Erick

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

Good luck up there Erick, let us know you make out this season.

[PiperHill]

Thanks ,

We are not very far from each other. We may have similar condition.

Have a fantastic season

Cheers
Erick

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

Sugarshack is clean and ready for boiling, but by Wednesday temperature will drop to -18c (11f) for 24hrs. Instead tomorrow i’ll check my taps for vacuum leak….

No rush forecast is clear after Wednesday.
Ps. I dont need to clean and empty everything for that freezing day….

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

Good first day collecting SAP 150gallons…+ overnight ….. First day of boiling tomorrow 15 days before last year…. Weather forecast are
Perfectly aligned for 20 days of Fun!!!!!!

Have Fun!
Cheers
Erick

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

Good to hear. Our first decent sap run today but 2 bushes still pretty slow. We will boil Tuesday.

[PiperHill]

What is your sugar content?
Here its 1.7 brix. All lines roughly the same., we also have a few buckets that start running tonight and the sugar content is 2 brix


I assume sugar content will get better by the end of this week

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

Life is fantastic… the last two days went very well ..SAP is still running tonight. Base on the latest forecast i’ll be boiling everyday for the next 15 days.

Have Fun!
Erick

Ps. RO is essential sugar content is not more then 1.7brix. ( best investment i ever did).

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

Sugar was at 1.7 here as well. That’s a little low for us and we usually gradually drop off as the season progresses. Good run the past couple days, slowing down now. Couple warm nights then hopefully a reset Thursday night. Collected 475 gallons and our first boil is underway.

[PiperHill]

That is not bad at all Mainebackswoodssyrup. We better do everything we can do now it may end very fast

Strange winter , our lake is so dark we may lose the ice in the next 10 days. I never seen that, overall this winter only 2 months of frozen lake.
My friend in Ashburnham MA just finish his Maple syrup season in short and flip/flop. Early March!!!!!! Strange

Have a good evening
Erick

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

****ty day of low pressure and bad rains all day. But boiling was great not much Niter and sugar content still around 1.7brix

Back tomorrow for another great day.

Cheers
Erick

[PiperHill]

Good Day,

After a beautiful weekend of boiling and almost 10 gallons of syrup, now we got snow and below zero for few days. That gives me a little break.

As per the forecast we should restart Thursday or Friday depend how many SAP we’ll collect later this week for now nothing.

Erick

Ps. SAP was not too sweet, by Saturday brix was 1.5 !!!!

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

Crazy day..last night my 300g tank was at 25g . This morning it overflow …i started the evaporator at 10:00 after filing the evaporator
tanks was at 270g.

I boil +/- 30g per hours i stopped at 16:00 and my tank was still at 250g..i turn off the pump for tonight. Tomorrow will be the same!!!

Have Fun!
Erick

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

Another run of 4 days. Just Saturday we made another 5 Gallons of Syrup ..was fun. This week we are back to -12 for 5 days. Good
reason to clean everything. Little break before Easter.

Ps: SAP sugar content still low.

Cheers
Erick

[PiperHill]

Good day,

Here at the border of Maine in Quebec its minus 15 this morning. Two weeks ago it was +12 and no snow on the ground ,this week we
got 15 cm (6”) of snow and tomorrow another 30cm (12”) and an hour from here in Sherbrooke almost nothing on the ground.

But after this weekend we should be back on track for another 10 days.


Have a nice weekend
Cheers
Erick

[PiperHill]

Good evening,

It’s restarted, but i got kidney stone on the go. May be the end for me. But weather look pretty good for the next 15 days.

Have Fun!
Erick

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

Oh man, sorry to hear that. I had a kidney stone once about 10 years ago so understand the pain!! Not fun, hang in there. We had the best sugar and lightest syrup off this last cold snap.