Boiled today and made about 10l but sap is not running, very little over past three days. Will use up the rest of our stored sap tomorrow but does not look like we will get sap tomorrow either! Not sure how this season is going to play out!!
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Boiled today and made about 10l but sap is not running, very little over past three days. Will use up the rest of our stored sap tomorrow but does not look like we will get sap tomorrow either! Not sure how this season is going to play out!!
I collected 74 Litres at 6pm off of my 58 taps today. It was all from today because yesterday things were pretty dry. Tomorrow looks promising!
Anyone producing any amber syrup? I have about 15 litres of golden to finish off.
Grabbed another 27 gallons of sap this afternoon. Buckets were half full again this evening, but I have nowhere to put anything more, so it's staying in the buckets till tomorrow. Maybe the freezing temps overnight will leave some ice in the buckets to help reduce.
Do you toss all the ice?
I toss the big chunks that are in the sap buckets.
I got lucky today. Trees provided exactly 100 gallons of syrup between last night and this evening. Boiled it down and now time for bed.
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6.5L bottled on Sunday. A little darker since I overboiled the evaporator once.
That's fabulous wobbletop.
+3 and sunny here today. Still finishing yesterdays sap, have just a bit more to get into a pot. The sap has been going back and forth between clear and cloudy, right out of the trees, so I'm trying to keep the batches separate just in case some tastes off a bit. Anything that's cloudier or maybe tastes off a bit, will go to sugar.
This sun is glorious! Has me thinking I’m in for a heavy load when I get home.