Quote Originally Posted by ennismaple View Post
We've had our flue pan go ropey on us a few times - normally towards the end of the season and after its sat for a few days with just the right sugar content in the pan. My flue pan today was looking like it wanted to go ropey and the float box definitely was ropey. I drained the float box and drew off some concentrate from the valve closest to where it was starting to get a little thick. Once new concentrate was coming in I just had to watch the defoamer for 10 minutes or so and then it settled back down. It ended up being very good syrup and filtered fine.
Now that's interesting.. I couldn't tell it was ropey until it was done.. during the boil everything looked, tasted and ran off the ladle in a normal manner. And it's actually the lightest batch I've made all season!