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    Gathered 10.5 gallons of 2.5+% on 14 taps yesterday about midday, and all were running strong in 50° sunshine, a vast improvement on the 1.5% on the 2/1-2/8 opening run. That was too soon to move. Still, this is a month before my traditional St Patrick's Day first tap. Had planned for 3/8, but yesterday was the day. 27° overnight, so taps refroze till about 10 am, and I will probably get another 10 here today; resuming suspended boil this weekend; 1 gallon of 26% sweet still frozen in the covered evaporator; planning a needle-valve drip to attempt my first continuous boil.
    seem to have peaked @ 20 taps: bags on hangers
    Homemade RO
    2 or 3 gallons syrup per annum, formerly with wood fire arch and batch pans
    then Dark Star 2.0 burner and 8 gal Megapot Brew Kettle with ball valve
    transitioning now to 30x17x9 flat pan

    rarely have so few toiled so much for so little

    Sap Aussie Gidget,
    and my one and only Jill

    http://twodogsgonewild.blogspot.com/

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    Gathered 10 gallons sap yesterday, accumulation since 2/28; 29 on hand, 58 boiled down to 2 gallons 76% syrup with rising sap sugar content now 3.6%, an interesting trend. New pan works well for low and slow boil, but not enough volume here with 16 taps to justify continuous boil. Pan edges never got over 206°; bubbles confined to now seriously undersized burner area. Loving the color, absence of sugar sand and pan crud; same taste and viscosity.
    seem to have peaked @ 20 taps: bags on hangers
    Homemade RO
    2 or 3 gallons syrup per annum, formerly with wood fire arch and batch pans
    then Dark Star 2.0 burner and 8 gal Megapot Brew Kettle with ball valve
    transitioning now to 30x17x9 flat pan

    rarely have so few toiled so much for so little

    Sap Aussie Gidget,
    and my one and only Jill

    http://twodogsgonewild.blogspot.com/

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    2nd boil completed Friday 3/8; season total 98 gal sap on 16 taps 4 gallons syrup bottled; best ever performance from drip add to new flat pan, cut boiling in half, propane by a third and increased output by 25%; trees stopped since Friday unseasonably warm steady temps, and a rapid, ugly budswell up top and on sunny exposures. Sixties predicted Tuesday and Wednesday; may close me down. Glad I got going early after all.
    seem to have peaked @ 20 taps: bags on hangers
    Homemade RO
    2 or 3 gallons syrup per annum, formerly with wood fire arch and batch pans
    then Dark Star 2.0 burner and 8 gal Megapot Brew Kettle with ball valve
    transitioning now to 30x17x9 flat pan

    rarely have so few toiled so much for so little

    Sap Aussie Gidget,
    and my one and only Jill

    http://twodogsgonewild.blogspot.com/

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    First six taps in reds down on shore have slowed to a trickle, with red buds swelling overhead. The next six sugars up hill are running like mad today, and show little sign of stopping; another four are . 55• and low twenties; 25 gallons on hand 10 on the trees; 10 more and i'll start my last boil, and likely bottle the most syrup ever. 2 gallons plus 3 gallons plus maybe 3. It's the pan, plus a timely beginning.
    seem to have peaked @ 20 taps: bags on hangers
    Homemade RO
    2 or 3 gallons syrup per annum, formerly with wood fire arch and batch pans
    then Dark Star 2.0 burner and 8 gal Megapot Brew Kettle with ball valve
    transitioning now to 30x17x9 flat pan

    rarely have so few toiled so much for so little

    Sap Aussie Gidget,
    and my one and only Jill

    http://twodogsgonewild.blogspot.com/

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