Shy of 100 gallons medium to dark amber off 300 taps on tap pullers. About .33 gallons per tap. Boiled over 5000 gallons of raw sap at about 125 gallons/hour. Going to 1000+ taps next season. I see an RO in the future.
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Shy of 100 gallons medium to dark amber off 300 taps on tap pullers. About .33 gallons per tap. Boiled over 5000 gallons of raw sap at about 125 gallons/hour. Going to 1000+ taps next season. I see an RO in the future.
Terrible year, we got only 0.17 gallons of syrup per tap.
I am in Nova Scotia and again as reported by others .05 a real bad year and hard work to keep everthing dug out of snow , snow won i lost 300 taps under 3 feet of snow.
I'm in metro west Boston and have been done a few weeks. Two boils. Depending on how you look at it, this second season was better than my first as I ended up with more finished (and had a slightly better handle on what I was doing.) however, I had 3x the number of taps, and 2.5 x the number of trees, and ended my season with the same amount of sap this year as last. Due to a shorter season, frozen trees, I'm guessing. Ended with roughly 0.07 gal per tap, depending if I factor in the tap that was dry the entire season.
Still fun. Still sweet. Still planning on next year.
260 gal, started season with 600 and added all season. We had 1200 at the end. 460 High vac, 121 on sap suckers and 619 gravity. .21 for season if you figure 1200 all season. So we might have done .28/.30 maybe.
Highland gave us 2.43LB so help a little on bills, now just have to retail everything else
2015 started out real slow with a cold March but just like 2014 the first 12 days of April were balls to wall We made 3600 gallons that would be .46 gals per tap It was all Golden and Amber Very happy with the season except I need dark to satisfy some of my customers My neighbor will help me out there I'm in the southern part of the Champlain valley in VT
34 gallons of dark syrup from 100 taps with buckets. Ratio of sap:syrup was 41:1. Very late start and finish. Last four days of the season--extending into April--saved our ***. Made almost half our production in those four days. No big runs until then.
Experimented with walnut syrup. Made half a gallon on 10 taps. Very interesting flavor: like apple jelly. Pleasant but different. A bitch to filter--had to squeeze it through a paper pre-filter. Probably came through the seams, as it is very cloudy. Not sure I will do it again.