Fi l ter when made or when bottled?
Just curious about what others do.
We run the outlet from our finishing pan through a gravity filter that has 3 orlon prefilters and a felt main filter. The syrup flows into a 3 gal container that we then refrigerate until ready to bottle.
At bottle time we heat the syrup up to about 190 and then place in bottles. Never had any sediment in either the bulk containers or the bottles.
I've seen on other threads where some are filtering as they bottle (not sure if they filter off the evaporator as well).
I'm just wondering what others do? Is there an advantage of one over the other?
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900