After cleaning up my syrupy mess on the floor, and factoring in some heavy sampling over the past few days, I ended up with just shy of 3.2L of what my grading sample box says would be 'light'. It's actually slightly 'lighter than light' and slightly 'darker than extra light'. Kind of in between.

At 70:1, this first batch is a lesson in determination to say the least. I've never had sugar levels in the 1.5% range, and hope I never do again. It's a lot of work when boiling with propane burners. At least the sap I'm getting now should yield twice the amount of syrup as that first batch did. Once the weather warms up and the wind dies down I hope to be back in business for batch #2.