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    On our small backyard batch evaporator I always boil it out when the smell starts to change. Some of my best testing syrup from the season came from those boils. We had one boil where my brother described the smell as smelling like a clambake, lol. That syrup had a slight off taste but I would still reach for it before the light stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by springhillsmaple View Post
    Well we just made 40 gallons of it. My Nephew described it as herbaceous and bitter. My question is ...Can I sell this stuff in bulk to someone? If so I’ll finish it off.
    I would imagine a bakery might buy it. I think I've seen it referred to as processing grade.

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    A couple years ago we made a barrel of it, sold it along with the other barrels and got enough money from the buddy, stinking stuff to by 2 new ss barrels.
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    I had never experienced buddy sap until this year. The smell started like wet cardboard and continued to get worse. After smelling it once I will never worry about forgetting the smell again. At the first hint of it I will be pulling taps from now on. The aftertaste left in my mouth from it almost ruined the taste of syrup for me. Ended up with 6-8 gallons that will be fed to the bears when it warms up. The biggest runs of the spring were all buddy.

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    I have made some good tasting dark syrup at the beginning (1 boil) of the wet cardboard smell in the past. Not sure if I have ever tasted "buddy" syrup. My trees just seem to turn off before that point.
    1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
    2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
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    2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
    Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.

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