We boiled our final boil on Saturday as well. Finished with 9.5 gallons- just short of my 10 gallon goal, but perfectly respectable. Also made my first batch of maple cream during the big snow storm last weekend. Turned out well and seems to be a hit amongst the family, I will make more.
Now to get it all cleaned up!
Pete
2017- 17 taps, 3 gallons, stove-top insanity
2018- 36 taps, 10 gallons, Oil tank evaporator
2019- 24 taps, 7 gallons
2020- 27 taps, 5.75 gallons
2021- 42 taps, 8 gallons
2022- 48 taps, 8.5 gallons
2023- 50 taps, 15 gallons
2024- 46 taps, 9.5 gallons
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Nice job Pete! I haven't tried maple cream but we started doing maple sugar this year which is very easy to make and quite delicious!Originally Posted by crzypete
My season was not great, ended up with only 2.875 gallons of Syrup. Filtering was terrible this year, even though there did not appear to be as much niter as other season (I wonder if the particles were smaller and less visible this year), but the syrup would not go through the filters, so lost a fair amount of syrup, probably would have hit 3 gallons at least if filtering went better. Definitely one of my lowest outputs ever. I did have about 80 gallons of sap spoil before I could boil, but overall I think my sugar content was very low this year.
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