Gotta agree with the "boiling soda", usually an ipa of some sort
Gotta agree with the "boiling soda", usually an ipa of some sort
Coffee, but I do have a side project fermenting...5 gallons of homemade Maple Porter ready to go in the keg on Friday!!IMG_0539.jpg
Dew or Reds Apple Ale.
10 buckets,20 bags,steamer pan,cement block arch,4 tarp - sugar shack - Low budget 2010-2015
35 bags, Leader Supreme 2x4, 1 stall garage shack - What budget? 2016-
Kona coffee or water when doing the dangerous/critical stuff like boiling, splitting wood, final finishing. Maple Porter when doing all the other stuff like collecting sap/bottling/cleaning equipment. A slug of any decent whiskey only as needed here and there to dull the aches - world's best medicine.
It is pretty funny, I have had people stop by to "help" with the boiling on a Saturday or whatever. Drink all day and by 7:00pm they are falling asleep in a chair by the fire pit while I am working well into one in a series of 16 hour days. One of the reasons I prefer to just do this project alone and decline offers of help.
Been that, done there.
Coffee made with sap rather than water, I like to have a few adult beverages in the sugar shack but don't while cooking anymore after I scorched the pan once and that happened sober to many things to watch to not be my sharpest
Custom built downsized Small Bros. arch and leader pan
Carrying on the wifes family tradition with the help of my brother and my cousin
two miles of almost impassable woods road to get to the sugar bush and shack (heaven)
Lots of coffee and a hot shot of Evan Williams Kentucky Cider
55 gal drum w/ custom made pan fueled by wood
homemade 24x36 electrical pull box w/ custom pan for standby evap
RB-5 RO-Bucket
Started 2011 with 17 taps
2018 72 taps Drop lines in 5 gal water Jugs
Not a teetotaler here either, but don’t drink alcohol often.
Coffee, Coca-Cola, Water.
42.67N 84.02W
350 taps- 300 on vacuum, 50 buckets
JD gator 625i Sap hauler w/65 gal tank
Leader 2X6 drop flue
Homemade auto draw-off
Homemade preheater
Homebrew RO, 2- xle-4040's
LaPierre double vertical releaser
Kinney KC-8 vacuum pump
12X24 shack
Lots of chickens and a few cats.
I'll have a beer once in awhile, but I got to say my favorite beverage is ice cold Mtn Dew, has to be a 12oz can too, don't like the big cans and won't even consider it in a plastic bottle.I know I'm strange. Otherwise water.
Nate Hutchins
Nate & Kate's Maple
2022 1000 taps?
3x10 Intensofire
20x36 sugarhouse
CDL 600gph RO
A wife and 2 kids.