Quote Originally Posted by a.clarke View Post
Thanks for the tips Galena. I have noticed you and others mentioning this color/flavor progression before. I would definitely call this "marshmallowey" flavored syrup.

I am still not sure what "buddy" sap/syrup smells like though. Everyone says I'll know it when I smell it, so well see. Some of my sap definitely has more of a woody or earthy smell to it and has had it all season so I'm not too sure.
You're welcome...and if your sap ever starts to look really cloudy, smell funky or off, or you start to boil sap and it smells like you're boiling swamp water...I would think you'd want to dump it! As the season progresses I become more and more careful to keep track of which day I collected sap, and in different containers, so I not only know when I got it, but if the sap turns on you overnight (as happened last year at a second bush I had going) then the damage is limited. Hopefully anyway!