Western New York

[wnybassman]

I went about a full grade lighter, maybe more. I'm happy, never did that before.

[Waynehere]

Yep, so did we. Went from dark to a light medium. Shutting down for the night and will see what the weekend brings. Looks like warm weather for us all next week. Probably a season killer. Got another 450 gal in today.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Picked up 180 gallons of beautiful, clear sap today. Just finished. Back to medium but I won't for certain until it's filtered. Looks like one more good run coming here. I am very glad I staggered my bucket tapping. I am getting a lot more sap now than I would otherwise. The oldest buckets are really slowing down.

With the fat buds I am thinking this weekend might be it. No off flavors yet, but I have close to a "full crop" for a gravity setup I guess. Still haven't really made dark though. I think it's the new tubing and only a single pass through the RO. Last year I was doing 2 passes and I think it affects the color.

[wnybassman]

I had the day off today so my dad finished boiling the 100+ gallons remaining while I bottled what needed to be bottled up to date. Worked perfect, he killed the fire as I was finishing cleaning everything up. I had two pots of dark and one lighter (the middle one for this run) but blended all together kept it all in robust.

I think I've only got one more run left in me, and my trees. I'll be pushing 50 gallons if it is a halfway decent run.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Broke over 40 gallons bottled tonight for the season so far. I think I have only one run left in me too. I'm thinking around 45-47 gallons for the season on somewhere between 180-190 taps all on gravity by the end of this coming weekend. I guess I would consider that a full crop if a quart per tap is normal without vacuum. I'm ready to move on to spring and work on sales so I can justify more toys. I really want a bigger rig and a heated room in the sugar house for the RO.

[wnybassman]

Still plugging away. Finishing up the 150 gallons collected today, another 30 to go. Running good right now, probably another 100+ by morning. 1.7% this afternoon

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Boiled 200 gallons last night. I think the leftovers I collect today is probably it. They were still flowing pretty good at 6pm last night when I collected. I test boiled on the stove because I was paranoid about buddy sap but it's still okay. A lot more trees have swelling buds now and looking at the forecast, it appears it's over.

Really weird season, but I should hopefully hit my 50 gallon goal tonight.

[millscrest]

With the up coming forecast, I called it a season today after the boil. . Time to clean the tanks, buckets and lines.

[wnybassman]

Boiled a 100 today, got about 45 in the tank and will add tomorrow mornings collection to it and call it good. Then on to the worst part of the season. lol

[Waynehere]

We gathered 500+ today. One of our 4 tanks was really nasty, so will keep that sap for the 2 month soak to clean the pans. Have another tank that is close to done, but the 2 that are on the CV spouts are really running strong... Will boil tomorrow yet and maybe even Monday. Then I think we will be done as well.