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Yep. We cashed it all in this weekend too. Actually dumped about 600gal of sap tonight. 450 taps, mostly on 3/16 this year and finished about 110 gallons. In a business where there is never a...

Totally. Initially, it was very sweet. Almost too sweet. But it's "settled" and is now wonderful.

Not distilled spirits, but we just finished our first batch of Maple Porter...AHHHHMAZING!! Turned out so nicely. We did the wort with 2/3 sap, 1/3 water. After 2nd fermentation, we kegged and...

Good for you! Exactly how I started. I did my first boil(s) in a buffet pan on a turkey fryer. Good luck.

(and keep digging in on these forums! There are so many people willing to share...

How did I never think of this?!?! Brilliant!

Coffee, but I do have a side project fermenting...5 gallons of homemade Maple Porter ready to go in the keg on Friday!!16048

You're right there are a lot of factors. But I cooked for a few years on a similar setup with a 24x48" pan. Almost the same boiling surface area. If my setup was similar, you're in for a long...

I guess we're the ones that chose to live here! Now windchills were -10 this AM. Pump lines froze before we could get sap out last night...kinda stuck here for a bit!

Crazy story!! Glad everyone's okay. It missed us too thankfully.

That day was 69°, sap running crazy, then cooking in a severe thunderstorm, then tornado warning, then hail and finally when I...

Oh man, SDDave....so true. I thought a lot of the same things at 4:30 this morning when I decided to shut it down!! Each year things have gotten bigger (not necessarily better) but run into new...

Gotta love the country trees!

We have had an incredible couple days here. Tanks are full, RO going full time and cooking to keep up. We've finished about 35 gallons so far. Pumped out about another 1000 gallons just yesterday...

Thanks for the input folks. I just don't want to give much back to the tree! :lol:

We've got 3/16th gravity vacuum lines going. Last night as things were slowing down with dropping temps, one gauge read 11"hg and the line below the last tap was full. But some of the drops had...

Thanks SDdave. That's our sugar shack. Took that last year during one of the late night cooking sessions! I attached a couple larger versions here for you. Crazy flow here today again too. Our...

Anyone have any of their "give back" info they'd share? I know everyone's got a different policy.

We are ROing and cooking for a handful of people who bring sap over. Just curious.

That's great news on the sap test from those trees. We've got some that were very swelled too, but cold got em to hold off. Hoping that we'll have some normal March run now!

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Looks awesome, Newbie!! Beautiful!!

Well here is our annual March wet, heavy snow. We got about 8-10" here. Heading out to the woods to see what the lines are doing.

Right on. Where from Faribault are you? We've got a pile of silvers that I decided to wait on. We'll get them setup during this down time in the next couple weeks.

We've pulled about 1000 gallons and are boiling now. Everything ROd two times and had about 250 gallons of concentrate to boil. Been going about 12 gal/hr on the boil. Syrup is drawing off and...

Dr. Perkins...YOU...are the man. Appreciate it. Someday we'll do a field trip to UVM!

Got our gravity lines running and so jacked to see all that spurting out at the collection tank.

My question is regarding air bubbles in the line...they are moving quickly, but there nonetheless. ...

BRILLIANT. Sign me up for one.

Ugh. This is a crazy forecast. We decided to get started on some of the gravity/vacuum lines. Drilling some holes this weekend.

Good luck everyone