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    Quote Originally Posted by saphound View Post
    Hey Russ, Sorry to go off topic a bit, but I've been meaning to ask for quite a while now...what's "boiling soda"?
    Boiling soda's are beer's. Take a drink of your boiling soda to cleanse the pallet then drink a shot of hot syrup and chase that with the boiling soda. It's a combination that goes surprisingly well together. A boiling soda while fireing the evaporator helps to cool you down and quench your thirst. I can get quite parched when I am boiling.

    I came up with the term "Boiling Soda" because a friend of mine used to call them road soda's and I felt it appropriate.
    Russ

    "Red Roof Maples" Where the term "boiling soda" was first introduced to the maple world!

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    Ahhh...I shoulda guessed that! Been partaking in boiling soda's all this time and never knew it, ha. Thanks Russ and WESTMAPLES.

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    Nice, I like that. I'll have to start calling them Boiling sodas so the wife won't know what were up to in the sugarhouse.
    Tap'em if ya got'em.

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    When you're cooking pasta or rice and go to grab the defoamer...
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    2015 - Small operation. 25 buckets. One excited 5 year old and one 35 year old that feels 5 again.
    2016 - One year older. New Homemade 2x4 Arch, Smoky Lake Pan and looking at 52 maples, 17 box elders and 2 walnut trees.
    2017 - Shurflo 4008 hooked to 42 stingy silver maples and a few Norways. A couple buckets on sugars and Norways. 10 box elders.
    2018 - ...a few more taps.
    2019 - ...more taps on 3/16 gravity. This spiral is heading downward in a hurry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by littleTapper View Post
    When you're cooking pasta or rice and go to grab the defoamer...
    Hysterical.
    ~ Karen ~

    2012 - 10 taps, 1 turkey fryer - 169.5L sap 4.2 L syrup
    2013 - 23 taps, 2 turkey fryers - 748.5 L sap 17.56 L syrup

    2014 - 22 taps, 509 L sap 12.5 L syrup
    2015 - 28 taps, 1093.75 L sap 25.1 L syrup
    2016 - 25 taps, 1223.5 L sap 28.25 L syrup
    2017 - 21 taps, 518.5 L sap 12.7 L syrup
    2018 - 28 taps, 2 turkey fryers & Denali 3 burner propane stove - 798L sap 16.9 L syrup
    2019 - 28 taps, 1409.5L sap 40.12L syrup

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    When you bring a bottle of syrup into the bedroom for any reason.
    Last edited by saphound; 03-18-2016 at 05:41 AM.

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    When you look at the maples in the village park or the courthouse lawn or the town square and wonder????????

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    You loop an audio of syrup boiling for background music. Jay

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    When you cook by lantern because dumping sap breaks the 11th commandment.

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    When you sample some of the maple sugar candy you just made and it melts in your mouth. But you remember that great maple candy your dad made 50 years ago.
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