Picked up a 30 gallon food grade plastic barrel with bungs for $10 yesterday, to use for my concentrate with my RO. It last contained A&W root beer. I cut the inner top out. It looked clean inside and I will start to “clean” it tomorrow, to get anything remaining out and the smell of root beer out. Once it is cleaned, I will add a rain barrel spigot at the bottom and will drain concentrate into 5 gallon pails to go into the pans and pots.
I will make a lid for it.
2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
DYI Vacuum Filter
2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.