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Hello: Wifey here. I'm a little disappointed that after the third boil we started getting Grade B and we've only just started. Tastes really good though. In the past our production was half Grade B and half Grade A. What's everybody else experiencing out there?
I dropped to B on sunday night. I cleaned the pan before Mondays boil and haven't canned or graded that batch of syrup yet. I was at a medium for most of it, maybe a gallon of dark so far before the B.
I'll let you know. Just got the pans sweetened yesterday with 300 gals and just picked up another 250 gals.
It's been all medium, but dipped to a dark last night. Cleaning pan today so maybe it'll lighten up. There's a fairly big dark, not quite burnt spot near the drawoff from some pretty have draws I had.
It's all been B so far here. The flavor is more like dark amber though and the color is getting a little lighter with each boil. The syrup from the last boil was borderline dark amber. 4 people thought it was lighter than the grading sample and 2 people thought it was darker so I decided to call it B to be on the safe side. It is hard to judge a reddish sample against an amber one to figure out darkness.
my first 5 gallons was dark...then moved on to grade B. But its the same here even though its B it still has a lighter flavor. I cleaned the pans today to see if it gets any better. the niter this year seems to be black so hopefully with that all cleaned out it will get a bit lighter!!! we'll see...but most of my customers perfer the dark and B anyway!!!
Pulled off my first 3 gallons today and the grade was Medium.
I'm at B tonight. A really reddish and light tasting B, but I'm in the same boat as Russ, better to downgrade the sticker.
I finally made dark amber last night. Hopefully I can keep my grade there for a while and even get lighter.
from PA: All been Light Amber except for one day of high grade Medium