sediment,sugar forming or ????

[goldnut]

Have some cloudiness forming at the bottom of my bottles and am not sure what it is? Any ideas? I feel this is just sugar forming but being a first year producer Im not sure. I had this in a small local store and didnt like how it was looking so I pulled it from the shelves. Ask me for any info that may help you determine what it is. I do bottle with a smokey lake canner. I heat the syrup to 185-190* before bottling. I did get crystallized sugar out of a quart bottle here at home. Thanks in advance! Ken

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[goldnut]

I also ran the hot syrup (right off the evaporator) through a 7" filter press.

[goldnut]

44 views and no opinions?

[Galena]

From what I can see - what little is visible in the pics - just plain ol niter. Is it really worth pulling from shelves and rebottling? Not to mention having to reheat, use new caps on the bottles etc?

[maple flats]

Looks like niter (sugar sand). It likely means you did not do a perfect job filtering. Read threads on this site about how to filter using a filter press. Then ask all of the questions you may have.

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

If your bottler is propane/open flame I’ve found it very important to intermittently stir the syrup while heating it up or you’ll get crystals and possibly niter from over heating some of the syrup. It looks like niter to me.

[goldnut]

Thank you so much for the input. I use a water canner. I heat to about 185-190. Is this too high and maybe the cause of the niter? Ken

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

You shouldn’t have any issues bottling at those temps though I try to do 180-185. As others suggested, do some searching in the filtering forum and I’m sure you’ll find some info on whatever 7” press you have. When filtering let the syrup run through the press for a couple minutes to work in all the DE before you start bulk storing or putting it in the bottler.

[Ed R]

I think its sugar sand as well, but I would check a couple of bottles to make sure your brix level is spot on.

[Chickenman]

Could very well be some DE that passed through the last paper of your filter if everything was not coated before keeping the filtered syrup. That stuff can be very fine and not immediately visible until it starts for fluctuate and precipitates out.