New Brunswick Tapping 2015

Mark,

I hear you on the pain of losing syrup.....read post #64 ;-)

I am not done yet. Just the latest batch and there is sap in the bucket from yesterday and tonight...hopefully.

Sucks about losing syrup. So precious, so I can imagine it sucks!

Hey Marvel,

Yep, over a gallon of lost syrup would probably make me cry. Last two years I've had to haul my sap up to the barn using snow shoes and a toboggan. Not that it's the steepest or furthest climb, but it is uphill when the sap cans are full.

All the labour involved into getting this stuff only to have that happen at the end, just makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it.

Hey Rob, you still getting overnight lows below 0? What's your snow cover like up in Sackville? Down here was kinda weird this year. Still a lot of snow on the ground, and no noticeable bud swelling, but the sap stopped flowing. While it might have started up again, my woods are now completely flooded so season over whether there was any sap left or not. :(

Bottled last of our syrup tonight. Finished up with 120 imp gals, about the same as last year. Not that impressive! Down about 25% from previous years, maybe the new normal though.

Hello Mark, we had a coup,e nights last weekend that were below zero. Collected the last batch of sap (30 litres) last night. Looked a little cloudy so I did a test boil. No noticeable smell from it. Going to boil it down tomorrow, Currently buried in snow.

Finishing up the last of the 30 litres collected on the weekend.
Smells like maple but is very dark and lots of niter. Ended up with 1200 ml which is a pretty good yield. Still have a few buckets hanging.....might get a run tonight/tomorrow. Though my wife says we have lots of other projects to complete.....quoting....."time to let it go Rob".....never!

It's great you still have sap running, Rob...everything stopped dead down here a week and a half ago.

My final tally is 2.66 gallons of syrup. That's only 0.025 gallons or 94.5ml per tap.

Disappointed? yup.

There is always next year....

I may have de-tapped too early, all week had frosty nights and warm days.....darn forecast told me it was going to be warm night and day! the buds haven't popped yet either