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Nice job folks to our west!
Sap sugar content sounds similar and making dark syrup is the same as we are seeing too.
Gathered Friday and Saturday 600 taps on gravity and hauled in total 800 gallons of sap for the two days at 2.5%. Made 8 gallons of dark syrup that had a red/pink tint in the hydrometer cup. Sugars sand avg qty but was dark purple. Syrup had slight off flavor, improving with the sap from Sat.
Good luck with the rest of the season.
Regards,
Chris
[QUOTE=Gary R;241481]Just to the east I've done pretty well. I've gotten 515gal. off of my 196 taps for this run. Sugar content low at 1.0 - 1.4%. I've got about 4gal. of medium made. It looks like I have a bit more sap for today. I don't know if it will be worth boiling. Guys on buckets are doing bad.
Heus, did you start up the RO yet? Hows that working for you? Good luck guys![/QUOTE
Gary the RO is awesome I removed about 700 gallons of water(from 950) Friday night and 400 gal of water from 550 last night.
130 gals sap on Thur and Fri. Syrup also dark. Can anyone explain why we're making dark syrup so early in the season?
Haven't got a clue on why the syrup is dark , but look on the bright side, dark syrup bulk prices will remain the same while lighter could fall in price from what I've been hearing.
I collected 220 gallons this weekend from 114 buckets and 103 on gravity. Sap was at 2.3%, syrup was Grade "A" Amber Rich. I am enjoying my 2x6 Lapierre since it arrived on Thursday. I had taps in before the evaporator arrived! It is a big improvement over the flat pan last year.
As of Sunday, we're all tapped. Some trees were running up here, but not enough to collect anything. Some of you are getting some good runs, I'm envious.
Hope it warms up some by the weekend.
Last weekends run I made 6.5 gallons of Dark Amber and 1.5 of medium. I emptied my 2x6 and finished it on my wood stove and it was lighter.
Tapping in the morning. Late start? It's just been too cold. How's it been going in Northern Ohio so far?
Just wondering how everyone is doing. We have made approximately 176 gallons so far. 160 gal have been dark amber. I'm fine with that because my bulk buyer, customers, and myself prefer dark anyways. Made B for the first time this season last night. That's because on Friday I stupidly filled my head tank with permeate on shutdown and flooded the flue pan. Had to boil that off to get back down to normal level. Looking forward to a big run Thursday and Friday. No signs of buds. Some parts of the woods are still frozen. Haven't even heard any peepers yet.
"too cold too late" seems to be the term that keeps ringing in my head. i have made about 12 gallons with another soon-to-be 5gal in the head tank , and to be at a quart per tap i need to make 43gal this year.... so im almost 1/2 way there for it to be a 'normal' season. nothing was 'normal' about last year as i made .45gal per tap!
i guess we all just got a bit spoiled last season.
if i had to guess its still going to be a normal year, just pushed back a bit.