hey guys .so I boiled 2017 gallons of sap. made 28.5 gallons. what is my sugar content of raw sap. any one have a formula? I know it is 70-1,so it must be around
1%-1.2%.
hey guys .so I boiled 2017 gallons of sap. made 28.5 gallons. what is my sugar content of raw sap. any one have a formula? I know it is 70-1,so it must be around
1%-1.2%.
You were just over 1.2% sugar. 87.1 divided by 1.2=72.5. Gallons.
Spud
so where does the 87.1 come from? good guess, low sugar content.
i tried to up load the pdf, but too large.
here's a link to a thread i started on sbi that has the pdf that spud was referring to.
http://www.sugarbush.info/forums/doi...revisited.html
Last edited by Moser's Maple; 06-05-2017 at 07:13 PM.
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The revised formula according to the article in the Maple Digest written by Dr. Perkins is S = 88.2/X-0.32. This is for 66.9 brix syrup. The formula using 87.1 is for 66 brix syrup. X is the sap sugar content and S is the volume of sap to make a gallon of syrup. So it took 70.77 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup. So that means your average sugar content was 1.24 brix assuming you finished your syrup to precisely 66.9 brix with no waste.
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When I calculate my sap I use 87.1 so if my sap is 2% it takes 43.55 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup.
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Last edited by amaranth farm; 04-06-2018 at 01:44 PM.
OK well then my big sugars are kicking over the traces, cause going by those same calculations I have 3-4% sugar....not at all unusual for me to go fire up a batch of say 5l nearup ndrawn down from usually around 100l sap either way, thinking I'm gonna get maybe 2.5l and instead get closer to 4. And yep my syrup brixes out at the red line.
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