Reworking ropey syrup...hmmm seems like tilting at windmills to me. I'll just stick with my parlour trick of *making* a small batch of syrup from my collection of syrup-laden nitre, saved for visitors who've never seen syrup made before. Chuck it in a pot with about a gallon of distilled water, boil as per usual, filter and eh wala I can get around 500ml of reclaimed syrup from nitre :-)

Very happy with my end of season total of 18.5l. Averages out to around 34:1 seasonwide which is low for me, usually I'm about 28:-26:1 this time of year. But then the red was on the line helping out.