You never get all of the niter out with cone filters.
So happens I’ve got a gallon we bottled that day sitting on my desk here at work (coworker purchase).
It’s been 10 days, there is no niter build up on the bottom of the container and it has been sitting here, not moved, since last Thursday (6 days and the jerk hasn’t claimed it yet ).
It’s acceptably clear, as are the others we bottled, and there is only a very fine/thin ring of foam at the surface, which is not at all objectionable.
It got bounced around a bit on the 36 mile drive to work and did foam up a bit, but has since settled.
We did note that at the last two farmers markets, when the half gallons and gallons were exposed to direct sunlight they started to foam. The smaller glass containers did not.
Couldn’t say one way or the other with the plastic, obviously.
As I said earlier, after the first foam up fiasco, we broke everything back down, reheated, ran the syrup through an orlon filter and rebottled.
After that, we didn’t have anywhere near the trouble we had the first go around.
This suggests that we may have filtered out something, but it’s not conclusive as we can’t rule out any number of other variables or just plain coincidence.
All we really know is that it worked, this time.
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.