Originally Posted by
RIVERWINDS
Correct, they will "shrink" after cooling down. Just sat in a seminar about this. Hot fill is to the neck rib on most glass. But also by filling it this far you're giving away product. I want to say a quart glass bottle filled to neck yielded 33+oz cooled product. His presentation was based on syrup in the high teens $$ per quart retail, and at that rate he was giving away 90 cents of product. It was something we all face, where did all my syrup go? I started with 10 gallons but only yielded so many quarts. He was trying to explain that properly hot filling syrup containers gives away valuable product and your pricing needs to reflect that. The smaller the container the more product you're giving away.
Amazing that we have to have seminars for something that should have been learned in grade school! Quite aware of the containers holding too much syrup, but I don't like being asked by customers why they are getting shorted. Have to find a happy medium. Quite apparent in some syrup I've seen for sale that they are indeed being stingy.
Mark
Where we made syrup long before the trendies made it popular, now its just another commodity.
John Deere 4000, 830, and 420 crawler
1400 taps, 600 gph CDL RO, 4x12 wood-fired Leader, forced air and preheater. 400 gallon Sap-O-Matic vacuum gathering tank, PTO powered. 2500 gallon X truck tank, 17 bulk tanks.
No cage tanks allowed on this farm!