I drink coffee, permeate, or light beer sometimes toward the end of a boil. But, after a beer it affects how the syrup tastes to me. It's not as good. I will have to try the whiskey with syrup sometime.
I drink coffee, permeate, or light beer sometimes toward the end of a boil. But, after a beer it affects how the syrup tastes to me. It's not as good. I will have to try the whiskey with syrup sometime.
Smoky Lake 2x6 fuel-oil fired, raised flue, hoods, SSR, concentric exhaust
Home-built auto draw off
Home-built RO - double XLE 4040, PLC controlled
8x10 Sugar Shed
200 taps on tubing with Shurflo vacuum with solar
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Coffee with a good slug of syrup from the drawoff.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
Depends on what time of the day it is, and where I am at in the boil. If I'm finishing concentrate - no booze. Otherwise, I like nice cold clear sap, coffee with a little Irish Cream, some energy drink we make with the soda stream, or a good IPA (Fargo Woodchipper is my favorite lately) In the evening if I have company, it Buffalo Trace Bourbon on the rocks.
Funny how a couple guys like IPAs...maybe cause a really strong one - Mad Tom IPA - made me swear off of them. It was like sucking on a lemon and a pine tree at the same time! But if there's a Beau's Lugtread Lagered Ale kickin around, I won't say no.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
Grain belt Nordeast in 16 oz. cans. Unless it's batch pulling time then it's coffee. Start of a new batch, just add sap, wood, and alcohol.
2.5 x 6.5 custom built wood fired arch.
2018- 300 on 3/16, 100 in pails on the flat.
35 years experience still haven't mastered the fire
Polaris Ranger collection vehicle
Super excited to try out the new AUF system 2018
Usually near the end of a boil we will get into the vodka and whatever we have for a mixer. Syrup works great, but if you don't drink it fast, the syrup will get too thick with the ice and not mix. Of course drinking it too fast is not a good thing either.
220 Taps
2x6 Home made
Sap Shack 20x20
5 Shurflo diaphragm pumps
250 GPH Deer run RO
I'm a sucker for WhiteCap, a Belgian Wheat beer brewed by my local brewpub: http://braubeer.com Pretty sure my maple season keeps them in business!!!
Dan
-15 years sugaring and counting - hoping to create a tradition my kids will always remember
-400 taps, mostly buckets (Silver Maples + a few Boxelders just for the heck of it)
-Custom-built 2x6 evap with Smoky Lake Maple raised flue, boiling in dad's old farm granary, now converted to sugar shack
-Cobbled-together RO with XLE4040 membrane
-New in 2021: experimenting with 3/16 tubing & a Shurflo pump.
Clean permeate or monster energy if it's an all nighter. I do most of the sap hauling and also have a Comercial drivers license. When the seasons over we get into the bud lights.
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We just "taste test" our syrup when it comes out.