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Yar! I'm getting excited. New snowshoes and plans to tap more trees this year. Looking into buckets, drops, and spiles. I need to automate things a bit more, and have the ability to collect more sap....

I'm liking the 250ml Glass Gallone Bottles with embossed leaf, at $1.35, plus caps. The shipping is a bit of a drag, but still cheaper than driving out up there to pick up.

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Thanks for the info. Yeah I only have about 12L to bottle. I was thinking maybe 36 250ml bottles for gifts, then I would just do the rest in mason jars.

Hey Folks - Finishing up my syrup and I've been looking around for bottles. I didn't really like what Home Hardware had in the store and was wondering what some of my other options were? I really...

A compromise! About half of my taps are overflowing right now. Mostly the furthest ones. I'll just collect those jugs and pull the spiles. Bury all the jugs and keep the other half collecting for a...

Yup, you got it... I think if I pull up spiles now and collect all my 4L jugs, I'll probably have more than enough sap. I can have a few bonfires over the next couple of nice days to try and reduce a...

Looks like folks are pulling spiles and putting away their syrups for the season. Got back into my bush yesterday after an absence of 6 days. All my sap jugs were overflowing, I still can't decide if...

Sap slowed some today, but still managed to grab about a dozen litres to bury in the snow for another day. Starting to see some sweet results. The jar on the right is from last night/todays boil and...

Wow, always a new surprise. I thought with all the snow and ice the trees would be sleepy today, but for the first time all the taps were running at the same time. Managed to collect 23L today which...

Snow tsunami! Went to sleep to freezing rain, woke up to 8" of fresh powder. When is spring again?

I don't know if the taps will be running today or not, but it will be fun rebreaking my sap line...

Weird morning, woke up to being in a dark snow globe. So much for that nice spring day we had yesterday. I was expecting a sap flood yesterday, but just slow drips. Still managed to collect 13L for...

Boiled down a big stock pot overnight, for a nice half jar of syrup. Guessing because it's so light and my taps are slow, the season is just getting started up here. Boiling down the next stock pot...

Madness indeed! Nothing like running around under a midnight full moon putting taps in! The spile in my avatar was a homemade one I did from a sumac branch. I used a few of these last year along with...

The sap is running out Bon Echo way. I'm hunkered down in the bush collecting and boiling. My second year trying it out, it's very addictive. I keep adding taps, but running out of containers. Good...