Another beautiful sunny day - that's 3 in a row! Put my 27 taps in on Friday. Just emptied last of it for a total of 40 gal sap (or 1 gal syrup). What a great weekend, the sap was running and my bees are out for a spring cleansing! Doesn't get much better than that for Feb
The maples
Stood uniform in buckets, and the steam
Of sap and snow rolled off the sugarhouse.
Robert Frost
2013 12 taps - turkey deep fryer = 4 gal
2014 20 taps - new 16" x 36" mild steel pan on a Denali 3 burner stove!
2015 25 taps - 6 gal
2016 25 taps - 7 gal
2017 27 taps - 4 gal (short tap season Feb 17 to March 11)
2018 28 taps - 6 gal syrup