Fwiw, I have been getting sap all morning, albeit slower than I can boil, but it's still coming!
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Fwiw, I have been getting sap all morning, albeit slower than I can boil, but it's still coming!
The drips have slowed down dramatically with the gusting wind. Today is one of those days when my string is worth its weight in gold. No flying buckets and jugs. It's wicked out there.
Almost 55 f this afternoon in Warkworth. Fields to wet to collect sap over in bush. Think it may be done for this season!
Finished bottling up 2 batches today - 15.4L.
Total syrup made so far:46L. Still have sap to boil down - maybe another 2.5L worth of syrup in there.
All hail Queen Lesley of Acer!
Great work MSM. I checked on my white buckets of sap in the garage this afternoon. All are still crystal clear and cold. I'll have close to 30L to boil tomorrow when the winds simmer down. Fingers are still crossed that tonight's forecasted 0* weather will create a nice little flow tomorrow. Enough to keep my boiling pan topped up through the day would be really nice.
All hail Queen Lesley of Acer.
I just boiled down my remaining sap to 2.25 L of medium amber syrup. Tastes wonderful. :mrgreen:
My buckets on the trees are empty. Looks like the end....or very close to it.
3 Silver maples; 1 Sugar maple; 1 Manitoba maple - all with two buckets each.
If I'm done, my First Year totals are:
Sap collected - 493 litres (130.25 U.S. gallons)
Resulting syrup - 13.125 litres (13.873 U.S. quarts)
Ratio sap to syrup - 37.56:1
Average syrup per bucket - 1.31 litres syrup/bucket
I'm already waiting on next year. :lol:
What excellent results you had 67H. Now, get yourself that sap refractometer for next year and there'll be no stopping you!
You guys are almost done up there? How does it compare to other years? Had a great year way down in NJ !!
I've had my best year yet, and I fear that we must be nearing the end of sugaring weather. Our thaw came on fast and furious. Unexpected to say the least. If we get more I'm ready, but even if I didn't get another drop for the season I am thrilled with what I managed to make. Had a blast.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5050racing
Well, the sap finally petered out around 1:00pm, boiled for 6.5 hrs and ended drawing 5.15L and the storage at ~312 gallons. I tested two sources of sap today, one is 6 trees into 1 bucket; 3.6brix, the other is 210 trees, 2.6brix...awesome. My draws are typically at least 7L, and I thought todays was about the same, but by the time I bottled it into these new little 50mL maple leaf bottles, I ended with the 5.15L...the rest was all over the place...its darn difficult filling little bottles. I'm expecting more sap tomorrow too.