Tapping in Ontario

[argohauler]

Well, canned syrup into various sized bottles yesterday and am heading to our local Farmer's Market this morning.

Ennis, I think I'd been rammin that sap through the evaporator anyways. 6000 gallons of sap is a lot to throw away. But maybe you wouldn't have enough wood to do the rest of the year then? Good luck in getting it fixed!

[Brent]

We're having a decent run today. Visitors all over the place. Looks like maybe 500 gallons will come in.

The last hurrahhh.

[Brent]

We've got a few hundred gallons in tanks and boiled off a few hundred, so it was a surprising day.

We're going to save what we've got for the folks out for a Sunday drive tomorrow so we can have the evaporator going. Not going to pass it through the RO or the SteamAway to stretch it out for the visitor.

Tomorrow's run ... who knows.

[can'twaitforabigrun]

Gathered 40 gallons today, probably won't be enough to gather tomorrow with a forecast low of -1. Looks like it the last hurrah will be next weekend, as long as the sap isn't buddy. Still haven't heard any peepers yet.

[nas]

Finished up yesterday. Pulled about half of my taps, and will clean up the rest this week. I had a good season with very close to 1 litre per tap. I'm already looking forward to next year

Nick

[Rockwood]

It's all over but the crying.. Saps gone cloudy, pulling and cleanup today..

[BryanEx]

I'm pulling and starting to clean today as well. A slow start to an overall great season. Sap ran perfectly clear until the very last day with sugar content ranging from 3.2 to 4.6 for the entire run. First time I've ever made extra light syrup and lots of it (for my sized biz) and the first time I've had to buy syrup from another producer. Already tucking $$$ aside for new toys for 2012 and planning on a slight re-structure of how to do things next year.

[argohauler]

Had a good market yesterday. Had amber and dark to offer. Medium is sold out. Couldn't believe how many people picked on the dark. One person described it as "INTENSE" flavour. All my dark except for the last day had a really good flavour.

Brought in 2 Argo loads of buckets yesterday afternoon. Was almost T-shirt weather.

Getting more syrup canned this morning.

[BryanEx]

Had amber and dark to offer.

From a grading standpoint, would your dark be known as Ontario Amber? I see Ontario has it's own version of amber versus Canadian standards and is permitted for farm gate sales. I'm just not sure how dark I can go (with good flavour) and still be able to legally sell it in Ontario.

[argohauler]

From a grading standpoint, would your dark be known as Ontario Amber? I see Ontario has it's own version of amber versus Canadian standards and is permitted for farm gate sales. I'm just not sure how dark I can go (with good flavour) and still be able to legally sell it in Ontario.

Ontario Amber and Canada Amber #2 are the same. So same colour too.

Ontario Amber is just for farm gate sales. I was under the belief that a Farmer's Market was an extension of your farm gate and I used them their. An inspector came along and said I'd have to change to Amber #2.

I hate that #2. Makes it sound like it's 2nds of apples or potatoes, culled out stuff, etc.