Western New York

[mudr]

Had a good run today, 50 gal (+/-) off 52 taps. Hope to get another decent run tomorrow, probably won't be as good. Currently at 2.7 gal/tap, hope to beak 3 tomorrow. Not bad for early feb.

[jimsudz]

Was able to tap my new bush in Cowlesville on Friday and Saturday. At 4:30 pm today picked up 400g of the 500g. Tested 1.7-1.8%. This bush is 324 taps,all 3/16.

[wnybassman]

Between last night and today I managed to boil off 180 gallons of sap and drew off about 4 1/2 gallons of syrup. The earliest I ever tapped in the past was Feb 12th, and here I am with 4+ gallons already this year. Sap ran better than I thought it would today. Bone chilling cold coming up, but I already see some 40's for mid to late week next week. Time to bottle, clean-up and regroup for the next run!

[Urban Sugarmaker]

and here I am with 4+ gallons already this year. Time to bottle, clean-up and regroup for the next run!

I'm right there with you. Although we didn't get a good freeze the night of 2/8 so I didn't really get any sap. Time to get ready for next week.

[mudr]

I'm pleased with the season, too. Up to 3.3 gallons of sap per tap. My wife is home today and excited to run the evaporator. She will fire up mid day, I hope to finish up when I get home. Have 80 gallons to boil down. It will be nice for a bit of a break, but look forward to it warming back up next week.

[dbeitz1891]

Finishing up the last bit of the big run tonight. Should put us up around 4.8 gallons per per tap so far. Our sugar has been hanging around 1.7 but we've seen as high as 2.0. Have made all medium syrup so far

[jimsudz]

So far my new bush has produced 930 g with the sugar averaging 1.6%. I think that's pretty good for 324 taps. Sweetend the pans last night and finished about 6 gallons of golden/amber. Going to use my new Hanna this evening to see if it is golden. Some mighty fine tasting syrup. I thought it was going to taste like new tubing because after ROing it you could tast the plastic in the sap, but no off taste at all.

[wnybassman]

First bottling session today, just over 4 1/2 gallons. Had a snafu while heating up the two stock pots for density checking, one decided to go full bore boiling over while I turned my back for a second. Figured I lost about a pint in that fiasco. The new filter bottler worked great, although I have to figure out a better way to get the syrup in it. Pouring it in out of the stock pot proved to be a bit messy also.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

First bottling session today, just over 4 1/2 gallons. Had a snafu while heating up the two stock pots for density checking, one decided to go full bore boiling over while I turned my back for a second. Figured I lost about a pint in that fiasco. The new filter bottler worked great, although I have to figure out a better way to get the syrup in it. Pouring it in out of the stock pot proved to be a bit messy also.

Is that the water jacketed bottler?

[wnybassman]

Is that the water jacketed bottler?

No, just the steam one.