Boiled down the last 80L yesterday evening.. Buckets barely had anything in them so dumped then.. lots of flies in them.. (although in hindsight I should have kept it as it probably totaled 10L). Sap was very cloudy with signs that some fermentation (or is that microbial action?) is occurring as I'm seeing floaty things in the barrel.. Test pot on the stove was good. I think sugar is down though as I think I'll have a bit less than 2L whereas other batches have been around 33:1 (or something..give or take.. haven't bottled all my batches yet). Funny thing is this is the lightest batch I've made all season.

I've pulled the buckets, and turned off the pump.. I debated keeping it on as it still pulled 80L from 23 taps over 2 days..but I'm out of wood and out of snow so no way to keep the sap cool until I could boil again. So I'm calling it a season. I think I pulled almost 1500L of sap this year with yesterday's haul. Syrup count to be determined.

Martin..I wonder if you've had colder weather even though you're only about 1.5 hour away from Ottawa.. all my snow is gone over here..

Good luck to everyone still at it!
Paul.