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Boiled 70 gallons last weekend from 47 taps. Added four more taps to a gusher of a tree on Sunday, it filled 5 gallons in 6 hours, and another 8 the next day. So Tuesday night had another 75 gallons ready to go. Did not collect with the warm rain yesterday. Freezing tonight, so expect another good run Friday before boiling Saturday. Extended forecast for SW CT looks favorable through the 13th.
I need to do some welding on my Arch top to seal off the fire.
Hey Seeds, we both know Sam (your neighbor), we'll have to get together in the near future for taste testing. I fired up again last night and got 54 gallons simmering into 1 25gallon pot that has probably 16 gallons of concentrate brewing. I will try and finish that off tonight in my pallet shack. I fired that up the other night (after some exhaust roof modification), and its still standing, so I am ready to go at it tonight. Really glad i tapped early for my first season, and experienced this process all the way through twice. The experience has been awesome, and the syrup killer...of course batch 2 had a learning curve, but it all worked out thanks to an awesome Maple community...got candy, AND syrup! Batch 3 will be half and half, (the correct way of course)
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I tapped 8 trees in ri a couple days ago and trees are flowing good. Almost two gallons of cooked syrup so far. BTW I New here, nice too meet everyone.
Scott-You da man! Nice recovery.
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