Quote Originally Posted by SeanD View Post
I thought the same thing about water going in, so I checked the sugar of the sap going in. It was 2.5% minus a little for temp correction.

psparr, was that 35 Brix or Baume? Did it foam up again? How much syrup did you end up with from the original 2 gallons of sweet?

I should go check the density of the sweet I pulled off and set aside. It probably won't be too high b/c I flooded the pan during the cool down, but it makes me wonder how much sugar I have in there. With that much sap and time cooking, it's gotta be in there somewhere.

Sean
Just got done going through it all. The 2 gallons was just the first batch. I started with around 6 gallons and ended up with about 5.

It was Baume.

It didn't foam up surprisingly. But in the evaporator it was foaming bad. But looked like almost syrup foam. Really shiny small bubbles.

Unless its just late season syrup.
Last weeks was a real light amber and this stuff was pretty dark. And the filters! They were covered in a almost burnt caramel looking slimy gunk. I've had plenty of dirty black niter before, but nothing like this.

Tastes great by the way.