Many of my customers like the look of a clear glass bottle. I get the pint size jugs for something like 2.50 a piece maybe through leader evaporator. I think mason jars are good for low cost option...
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Many of my customers like the look of a clear glass bottle. I get the pint size jugs for something like 2.50 a piece maybe through leader evaporator. I think mason jars are good for low cost option...
Well I finished bottling the last of my syrup from the last batch I did 3 weeks ago. Total for the year about 4gal. Which is about half what I normally do but I was a bit tired out anyways, glad to...
https://www.leaderevaporator.com/p-33-prefilter-for-maple-syrup.aspx
The prefilters are cone filter, also you can search that website for synthetic cone filter, that is the finishing filter, the...
A good hydrometer to test syrup will be more accurate then thermometer alone. My thermometer is off by a few degrees so I dont really pay much attention to it. I suggest this as I tried to use a...
Looks good, I sell mine in glass pint jugs, and maple leaf shaped bottles so not quite similar but I used to sell 1.5pt mason jars for $15 ( i also sold 1.5 pt maple leaf bottles for $25)
Maybe my shortest season ever, I only tapped 3 weeks ago, made 2.3 gal of syrup and have another 55 gal to boil. Guess all these guys tapping early were right this time...o well I'm so busy this year...
Hey mapl3m1ke, welcome to the fun. Looks like you'll be making a good amount of syrup soon. Just as a suggestion, you might want to try smaller diameter wood, it gives you a better boil though you...
So I've got my ro running again, the question I had was does the placement of the pressure gauge matter? It is currently in between. The prefilter and membrane. Should it be in between both...
I have basically an equivalent to the second most efficient RO bucket, 2-400gpd membranes w/aquatech 8800. I go from 2% to 4% in one pass but it struggles to go much pass 6% (recirculating) it takes...
I have the aquatech 8800, w/2-400gpd membranes. It works good for me. Are you saying you have 200-250gal of sap per batch, But you have 700gpd membranes or multiple membranes that equal up to 700? I...
I'm not sure if I screwed mine up too. I ended last year by cleaning with hydrogen peroxide flush but I didn't put them In the refrigerator I put them in zip lock bags (still wet) then left them up...
I bottle all my syrup in glass using cone filter/w prefilters. I sell some and they are nearly perfect, like others have said it depends on your process but it can be done. I purchased the optimizer...
I tried taping early one year, I regretted it. I'm going to hold off till end of feb early March.
Which pump are you using.? Looks like you'll have room to expand, that will be nice.
I agree with that.
I dont have the optimizer yet but I've used a similar inferior method using a collender upsidedown, it works but requires someone to hold it and is slower since syrup has to go through the holes...
My neighbor tapped once in Jan. They never ended up running. I tapped Feb once and didn't get anything for a week and a half later...it just never seems to work out for me I will wait till beginning...
Hope to use the optimizer this season
I pretty much built the more expensive ro bucket but I only have 2 membranes, can add another If i want. It was quite an undertaking getting all the parts on my own, imagine it would have saved me a...
I'm excited to start seeing these trees grow some more and finally produce fruit. I dont think I'm going to be doing much more grafting, maybe just some refracting. A few years ago I would have...
So I finished my last ro of the season, I didn't do as much as I usually do this year I was just too tired. I did approximately 220gal of sap. The processing rate fluctuated through the season. In...
Dont know where the pic is but I used to boil on an old Galv trash can with a pot in it also had 2 Turkey roasting pans on open fire and a turkey fryer that year.
Yeah mine looks like that sometimes.
He's a hobbiest so I would say grade it whatever he thinks. Golden delecate robust...sounds good. I find that interesting about his syrup and yours. I recently built an ro and a couple weeks ago made...
Thanks but I sort of went over budget this year with building an ro. I will likely buy from probryan next year.