Search:

Sap clarity is back to good but sugar is down. 1.4%. One more good push this weekend then it is over for me. Should top 250 gallons. Decent season but not stellar by any stretch.

The season is not even close to over. If the 10 day is accurate we have a ways to go of making good syrup. I have had good runs but nothing epic yet. I stand by my Tuesday into Wednesday...

It will break this weekend. We had cold followed by warm but the trees do not like the 70 degree stuff. I am betting you will be very happy with the short runs we have this weekend Saturday and...

Steady but not crushed by an means. Vacuum is the key. without vac. I would not have much of anything and the tap holes would be filling with bacteria faster. It is 68 degrees and has not been...

I was 2.1 on the brix.

700 gallons of sap yesterday. Never really got rocking just steady on vac. I think Saturday it will break loose in the finger lakes. Very light first 11 gallons bottled.

Slow run for a 58 degree day. Still a lot of frost in the ground and trees. Did collect 600 gallons of really nice looking sap. Sugared the pans and got 2 draws of light syrup off the rig. This...

At least for quality syrup/sap. Got 600 gallons of cloudy stuff that I will process into very dark/commercial grade. All the soft maples here had budded out. Warm temps today and tomorrow should...

This week will be huge. Sap hammering this morning with tanks getting full. Had to run sap before work. It is crushing now. The forecast looks warm for the next 10 so this will be the heart of...

70 gallons finished. Will catch up with bottling and bottle my bourbon barrel syrup during this cold snap. Next weeks looks interesting if we can work in a few cold nights. I think it is going to...

Decent run of 1,000 gallons Sunday. It did trickle all night but not sap explosion yet. Still a lot of frost in the ground. May really break lose today. 25 gallons bottled and a lot more sap to...

Made 13 + gallons are last night. Sap is actually running hard today so we will clean that up and process it before the big freeze. Great start on a couple hundred taps. Tapping the other 1,000...

Sap is hammering today on vac. Gonna be a nice boil tonight and a solid early start to 2020!!!!!!!

Solid run the last 2 days will collect it all tonight, RO it down and boil it off. Combining forces with another local producer since we only put in around 250 taps each. Made about 10 gallons...

Combined forces with a local buddy and boiled around 550 gallons of raw sap down on his 2 by 8. Going to yield around 10-12 gallons when all is said and done. Put out a few hundred new drops so...

Put 250 taps out on new drops. Starting to run this morning so I turned on the vac. Hoping to get enough to play around with today and tomorrow. Waiting until at least the middle of February to...

I tried check valves twice and saw no change in my yield either. I just use regular spouts now. I know what the research shows but I also know what I saw with my own eyes.

Did a study in my...

I have all hard maples, no reds. I pull decent vac. (20 inches on average). Thinking I will go for it on old and new taps. I can always boil water the 2nd maple weekend if the holes dry up.

Mountainvan,

How long will your tap holes stay open? I am considering tapping this weekend given the forecast. I have brand new drops on one section that I am certainly going to tap. Not sure...

I am looking for some feedback from bigger producers or people that have tapped really early in the past.

I have changed out around 250 drops on a smaller bush of mine and was considering tapping...

Flower City is anyone tapping your woods?

It sure beats the hard work of making the stuff at $22 - $24 a gallon bulk. Not really, I enjoy the process and would never sell anything I did not make myself.

The " " indicated a few individuals that make very little syrup, buy at cheap bulk, repackage with their label and resell. Nothing illegal but their equipment is more of a facade than anything...

Bulk Prices will not go up anytime soon. 10 years ago I was the only producer in the area now there are 5 "producers" within 10 miles of me. It is a trend and the guys with big overhead will have...

Nice Run Sunday but not the gusher I was expecting. Thinking my season will wrap up on Friday. I will save enough to boil for maple weekend part 2. Maple weekend 1 was a nice success. Sold out of...

I have not had the sap run that hard ever. Collected 2,400 gallons of sap off 1350 taps in 24 hours. It was still running and I got another 700 yesterday. Will gather up another 500 + today to...