Haven't heard in a few years but what is everyone selling 12oz, pints and quarts for now? Been out a couple years but back. I usually make between 15 and 35 gallons a year.
Selling price
Haven't heard in a few years but what is everyone selling 12oz, pints and quarts for now? Been out a couple years but back. I usually make between 15 and 35 gallons a year.
we get $10 a pint and $20 a quart
We sell our 16.9 oz for $20.
I know that's a higher price. I was a bit hesitant to post it, honestly. But we do sell most of our syrup before next year's crop comes in. I have one customer who wants 20 bottles already.
Daniel & Eleanor Bliese
Heritage Woods, LLC
SW Michigan
Smoky Lake 2x4 raised flue on Corsair arch
The RO Bucket 80gph Single Post
150 taps on buckets
I am in Upstate NY and bottle all of my syrup in glass. I have been charging the following for the last 4 years or so. Prices did go up this years at some of the bigger local sugar makers.
12oz $10
Pints- $14
Quarts-$24
1/2 Gallons $35
100-110 buckets
Leader 7.5" 3 Bank filter press (2023)
RO Bucket RB10 (2017) upgraded to RB20 (2020)
Homemade oil tank arch
Homemade stainless pans
12x16 Sugar Shack (new 2020)
I get $12 Pint and $20 Quart
2013 25 taps 2.5 gallons
2014 60 taps 9.5 gallons
2015 12 x 16 sugar shack 200 taps 1500' 5/16 lines gravity. Home made arch, 2 x 3 pan and 18" x 24" steam pan.
2016 2 x 5 Smokey Lake hybrid pan. Custom steam hood and float box. Number of taps yet to be determined.
2017 Made 27 gallons. Added 60 taps on 3/16 lines.
2018 Adding more 3/16 lines. Made 55 gallons
2019 Added 4 totes for sap storage. Big shack upgrades.
You will find prices all over the board, what someone sells their syrup for in any other area should have little if any bearing on your price. I suggest you try to find what others in your aarea sell for, then I try to stay slightly above the average. Basically I get 5 or more prices, drop the high and the low, the avarage the rest and go a little above the average. What will throw this off is if you have many Amish producers in your area, they tend to sell too low. Prices vary greatly from one area to another. you want to be in line with your local market
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
One other way I did it in the early years of selling my syrup, I got the cost of each container, and then added the amount per oz I thought I should get. For 2 reasons that brings the cost per oz in any container up because the smaller container costs more per volumn than the larger one. For the smaller containers you generally pay more per oz than a container twice that size. I.E., you pay more for 2 at 16 oz than one at 32 oz. Also, it takes longer to fill 2 at 16 oz than one at 32 oz. Keep that part of pricing in mind as you set prices. If you look at answer #2 in this thread, $10 a pt and $20 a qt, they are making far less per oz on the pint than on the qt, but my observation is that both would certainly not be found in y area, far too low.
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
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