Made 400 gal GD on Friday. Good run on Fri/Sat and some on Sunday. Have another 760 gal of 35 Brix concentrate to boil today, with another 2,000 gal of sap in the tanks to process in the RO. That'll bring us up to around 2,000 gal of syrup for the season. Still a good amount of snow on the ground and no real hot weather forecast, so things look good for at least another week or two. We've been quite a bit colder than many other sites so far this spring, so lagging a bit behind, but still have some season to go. Sap sugar still around 2.0 Brix. Hopefully the freeze overnight will bring it up a bit, but it was cold enough that I don't expect it to run until around noon. We'll start boiling in about an hour.
Afternoon Update
Made another 360 gal of syrup earlier today, putting us at 2,080 (0.42 gal/tap) so far. Right on the edge of GD/AR. Sap sugar dropped off to 1.8 Brix by this afternoon. Niter is still not too bad, but picking up some. Sap started off running fairly late today due to low overnight temperatures. Should run moderately well overnight. Will likely concentrate tomorrow again and then boil either Wed or Thurs depending upon how much comes in.
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