This years weather proved to be tough on my operation and I lost a lot of my sap to spoilage from warm weather. I'm only able to boil on the weekends. In the past I've stored my 5 gallon buckets of sap in a snow bank but this year we had no snow and I was using a sureflo pump with an IBC tote for storage for the first time.

This is leading me to try to figure out some way of cooling my storage tank. I have a creek on my property and my idea is to run a recirculating line through a coil in the creek. I figure on most days I can just run the recirculation line of the sureflo pump through the coil but on warmer days I may want a dedicated pump so I can keep up with the warmer weather and prevent the sap from heating up.

Has anyone done anything like this with any success?