Smoke Stack Mmmmmaplin in Middlebury, CT 2019
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Collected 45 gallons today, will be boiling tomorrow
What a soggy Sunday morning. Sap has been running all weekend, another 90 gallons since Friday afternoon.
Putting a roof over the evaporator this year is paying off today.
My best pickup of the season today, 170 gal, i'll be firing up early tomorrow - Hope the wind doesn't blow all my bucket covers off. Yesterdays batch was 2.5%
Slow start but between last 2 days I collected 40 gallons. Hoping for a late week run to boil as much as I can this weekend.
It took all week, but I finally was able to fill my RO tank to the top tonight! Had a nice boil yesterday and finished up what is probably the cleanest-looking syrup we've ever made this afternoon!
I had steam at 5 AM, was done at noon with 170 gal. Went back out & got another 45, lots of bucket covers off, 2 must have wracked back & forth so many times they pulled the taps out. We're done here for awhile I think, some cold weather on the horizon.
I agree it looks like a freezer here for the next 5 days at least. I got another 40 gallons of sap today that is going to have to wait until things warm up again.
The wind has brought on a chance for me to run my generator today. It has been 7 hours since the power went out and no telling when it's coming back on. The wind is still crazy so I'm guessing the crews are sitting it out till it dies down.
Saturday was the First time I checked brix at each tree. I never had the refractometer, because if it was sweet, I would boil it anyway. Getting RO soon, so I will need it to ensure permeate is not wasting sugar. Anyway, the worst tree is about 2.5%, average in the barrel is 3% and two are over 4%. Mix of sugars, reds, and silvers. In one day, 73 taps produced about 100 gallons of that, Boiled two nights with late start this weekend to get ahead of it, almost glad it will freeze again, I have a way to go.