If it smells and tastes fine it should be good to go.
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If it smells and tastes fine it should be good to go.
Welp, was a busy week of collecting, running the RO and boiling off on Saturday. Finished another 4 gals off 245gal of sap and added another few gal of sweet to the bucket in the chest freezer for later finishing. Noticing it seems like that my syrup is a little extra heavy with niter this year, not sure what’s up with that. Checked my 60 on lines in Middlefield/durham this afternoon, found both my two 55gal drums overflowing from Saturday/Sunday’s run. Had to fire up the Ro again.
Busy week here... Boiled off another 4 gallons and collected 120 gals of sap today.
Assuming I get the same tomorrow I'll be boiling and bottling again soon.
Bottled up 5 gallons from last week and still rocking!
Another late cold spell and weekend warm up gone by and another 150 gallons of sap collected. Had a late night boiling last night and probably another late boil today.
I swear I heard tree frogs this morning leaving the house for work. Lots of moths around the barrels yesterday too.
omg yes! the area around the weeping spots were covered on moths!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cjadamec
Sap running good in Willington. Wish I had time to collect this morning, collected yesterday and bags are half full this morning. Have 14 gallons bottled so far.
Up to 19 gallons bottled so far. Good runs the past couple days but the temps have me nervous. Think I'll take Wednesday off of work to boil what I have. Too warm to keep too long! Really need to get my milk tank cooling!
I get a sneaking suspicion that this syrup season is going to come to an early end.....
I think all the bugs and woodland critters might agree with you on that. The rest of this week is way too warm around me to keep sap for more than a day or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsrover
Pumped 600 gallons up to the sugar shack tonight. Still had some ice in the tanks and totes and the sap was very clear. It was, however, only 1.5%...maybe. Gonna recirculate through the RO most of the night and take the day off tomorrow to boil.
Weather is really mixed for the next week or so. Who knows what we'll get....
Same over here but the sugar content was around 2%. My tanks were filling up and the flow has been great since Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsrover
I wouldn't say the weather is mixed for the next week though. Looks like a good cool down/freeze over the weekend starting Friday through Monday and then another thaw. Later next week is still too far out but it looks like it will be colder again. Given that I think we'll have good runs early next week and the following if things hold.