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maple flats
You can make clear syrup without a filter press. Use a final filter and 4-5 pre-filters. As each pre filter plugs, carefully remove it. To enhance the filtering just get some filter aid (food grade Diatomacious Earth) and stir it into the syrup to be filtered. It will collect in the filters and will create a thick filter cake. Try using about 1 cup/gal of HOT syrup for your first pour and about 1/2 cup/gal if you pour a second or third time or batch. Do not remove the filter cake that forms, that IS your best filtering media. Doing it this way, your pre-filters will last far longer before needing cleaning.
that they made award winning syrup, more than once, utilizing gravity before they purchased their press....at my size this year I think we'll stay gravity but as I grow it seems inevitable that a press is in our near future...
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