over cooked syrup

[chicken123]

i just over cooked some syrup It's about 1.5 brix over. can I thin it with sap? how do i add the sap? just add and stir?

[PerryW]

You can thin it with potable water or sap. It mixes best when it's warm.

First, find out how much your syrup is over using the Baume Scale (should be on your hydrometer).

For each tenth of a point Baume that your syrup is heavy, add 3/5 of an ounce of water per gallon of syrup.

[chicken123]

thanks i'm filtering right now will I have to filter again once i add sap?

[frjeff]

Just added two pints of way over cooked (thick and heavy) syrup to some "near syrup" that I had from the last two days good run and ended up with this:

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[Run Forest Run!]

Good work frjeff! That's one great thing about syrup, unless you burn it to the bottom of a pan it is usually salvageable. Make it too thick, you can thin it down. Make it too thin you can cook it again.

[Luneyburg]

Or as I did with a batch make sugar its fantastic

[325abn]

Why so much air in those bottles?

[Run Forest Run!]

It was his very first try. You don't realize how much the syrup will shrink down until you see your first batch. I'm sure he'll be filling higher next time to keep spoilage at bay. He's been doing a lot of reading and research on here.