The temperatures did not go below freezing the last two nights, so not much was collected today. I boiled 19 gallons and made 2.2L of syrup. It was all boiled, finished filtered and bottled by 4 pm and all cleaned up before 5 pm.
This is what I was hoping for this year, a much lower key day. The syrup tastes great!
That should be it now for a few weeks, then we will back to the more traditional March sap flow.
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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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