Things are definitely slowing down here. Collected 15 gallons of sap today. Almost done boiling it all. Since yesterday the forecast low temp for tonight was down around 25. Now that the night has actually arrived, the forecast has been changed to a low of 31. It's fascinating how relatively meaningless weather forecasts still are, beyond gross details. And even then, even those sometimes end up being mostly or completely wrong, too.
I suspect I'll be taking my buckets down sometime within the next 7 days because there just won't be any more sap runs. But it's been a great season. It makes it fun to imagine it coming again next year, already!
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5' x 9' sugaring room
37 taps (cast iron spiles), 3 gallon metal buckets
Boiling with a 21" x 24" divided pan, 3 troughs, w/warming tank on top
250K BTU propane burner inside cement block arch, 4 x 100lb. propane tanks in parallel
Sap storage in 44 gallon Brute barrels w/food-safe plastic bag barrel liners
2021: ~8 gallons of syrup
2022: ~11 gallons of syrup (but I lost a 3 gallon batch because I fell asleep and burned it!!)
2023: ~15 gallons of syrup