I'm done. Final boil was yesterday.
Ended up with 8.5 gallons of syrup for the season; more than double what we made last year on almost same number of trees.
I'm done. Final boil was yesterday.
Ended up with 8.5 gallons of syrup for the season; more than double what we made last year on almost same number of trees.
2020 - 1st year - 13 black walnut taps - 4 bottles syrup
2021 - 50 taps, 22 black walnuts/28 red maples - 4 gallons syrup
2022 - 54 taps, 11 black walnuts/41 red maples, 20 on solar shurflo vacuum - 8.5 gallons syrup
2023 - 47 taps on 45 red maples, 43 on solar shurflo vacuum
Finished up today. Boiled out my evaporator and have
everything filtered / bottled.
4200 gallons of sap 11.57 gpt
363 taps. 71 1/2 gallons of syrup total
All dark and very dark, but all with really good flavor.
Hope everyone had a good season!
115 red maples on vacuum
100 taps on 5/16 gravity
35 taps on 3/16 gravity
50 taps on shurflo vacuum
about 60 buckets on giant roadside sugars
neighbor bringing from 45 taps
30'x 8' Aof/Auf Evaporator
Homemade 125gph Ro
Lots of Homemade Equipment!
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