Posted: 4/1/2015 9:54:46 AM EDT
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Just finished up our maple syrup season... We ended up with about 4 and a half gallons... which is about all we look to make... anyone else into sugaring?
There is probably a week of good sugar weather left but I leave for vacation so we're done... We built a sugar shack this year so we could get our cinder block arch out of the weather... Next year I'm thinking of moving from using steam tray pans to a custom pan... Going to have to look into how to weld stainless steel... never done that... Have a bunch of other changes to make... it's a work in progress :) I tossed one last video up that goes through everything involved... from tree to jar... My channel has detail videos of the steps... this is a silent video that I whipped up showing the steps we go through while we are actively boiling... 
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Very cool! Syrup season is still going here. It seems most are using bags rather than buckets around here. How many gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup? about 40:1 next year I'm going to get a refractometer which will tell me the sugar content of the sap and syrup... don't really need one but I like toys... some years you only need 30 gallons of sap... others more... the refractometer will tell us exactly... |
Hello, fellow syrup maker checking in... congrats cleb on reaching your goal. We are still going here in Northern Vermont but without another freeze we will likely be done this weekend. We have around 6300 taps and are up to 2289 gallons as of today when I left the sugarhouse to come to work. Things didn't look to good early on but picked up this last week and a half. I am actually ready for it to end now since these last two weeks have been busy and long between working 12 hour nights and trying to keep the syrup business going. As of 6:30 tomorrow morning I will have slept a total of 3 hours out of 48, I'm running on fumes  .
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Hello, fellow syrup maker checking in... congrats cleb on reaching your goal. We are still going here in Northern Vermont but without another freeze we will likely be done this weekend. We have around 6300 taps and are up to 2289 gallons as of today when I left the sugarhouse to come to work. Things didn't look to good early on but picked up this last week and a half. I am actually ready for it to end now since these last two weeks have been busy and long between working 12 hour nights and trying to keep the syrup business going. As of 6:30 tomorrow morning I will have slept a total of 3 hours out of 48, I'm running on fumes .Wow, that's a lot of taps. This was my first year tapping in Maine. I had a small barrel evaporator made that holds two steam pans and I tapped about 30 trees. I made about 3 gallons of syrup in total. I am looking at purchasing a Mason evaporator for next year. I have approximately 500 maple trees on my property and have access to about another 2000 next door. For now it's just a hobby but I would like to sell some in the future. |
