Collected 25 gallons of sap this morning, sap that flowed after 4 pm yesterday. I got it collected before the snowstorm arrived. The temperatures will warm late this afternoon and overnight and we might have 11 hours above freezing.
I am going to boil a little less often to reduce the number of setups and cleanups, so boils will occur every two or three days. That will also give me more sap to boil and allow me to have drawoffs with out fear of running out of sap. Next boil will be Monday.
The highlight of the day was I made maple syrup snow candy for the first time for my neighbour’s four kids. It tasted great. Some lessons learned on when to place the popsicle sticks into the candy. We made it inside my garage as the snow was falling sideways with the strong winds.
It made me very happy to make it. I used 500 ml of syrup heated on a turkey fryer.
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2022 - 5 pan block arch - 109 taps, 73 on 3/16 lines, 36 on drops into 5 gallon pails.
930 gallons boiled, 109 L (28.8 gals) of delicious syrup made.
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2023 - 170 taps, mostly on lines, 1153 gallons boiled, 130 L (34.34 gals) of delicious syrup made, on a 2x4 divided pan and base stack, 8” pipe, on a block arch that boiled at a rate of 13 gallons per hour.
2024 - made 48 L, December to March, primarily over two fire bowls.
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