2022 maple season

[mowin]

1 minute ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

For what? Pancakes?


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That, and lot of people sweeten their tea, drizzle on vanilla ice cream,  baking, ECT.  I've heard of people putting in on rice. 

[corydd7]

55 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

what do you guys do with all this syrup? Not trying to be funny, genuinely curious. I think my house uses 10 tablespoons per year max?

Give it away. If I get one gallon that's only 16 cups/8 mason jars it really isn't that much. 

 

[stubborn1VT]

1 hour ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

what do you guys do with all this syrup? Not trying to be funny, genuinely curious. I think my house uses 10 tablespoons per year max?

On oatmeal, ice cream, pancakes, waffles, in marinades, as a replacement for white/brown sugar in recipes etc.

[dinorocks]

All of my syrup last season was extremely light…never seen anything like it before.  Typically my first boil is light then things darken up (I assumed due to increase in bacteria).  
 

I hope to make my bacon, bourbon maple syrup again soon!  
 

[WNYTRPR]

6 minutes ago, dinorocks said:

All of my syrup last season was extremely light…never seen anything like it before.  Typically my first boil is light then things darken up (I assumed due to increase in bacteria).  
 

I hope to make my bacon, bourbon maple syrup again soon!  
 

Nice color .The dark is my favorite though .

 

Edited February 16, 2022 by WNYTRPR

[dinorocks]

Looked like gasoline!

[corydd7]

1 hour ago, dinorocks said:

All of my syrup last season was extremely light…never seen anything like it before.  Typically my first boil is light then things darken up (I assumed due to increase in bacteria).  
 

I hope to make my bacon, bourbon maple syrup again soon!  
 

That's awesome! 

[landtracdeerhunter]

Just now, corydd7 said:

My buddies were just asking me what makes the color different anyone have an answer? 

One of the trees isn't a sugar does that matter? 

Longer the cook time, the darker the syrup.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Just now, dinorocks said:

All of my syrup last season was extremely light…never seen anything like it before.  Typically my first boil is light then things darken up (I assumed due to increase in bacteria).  
 

I hope to make my bacon, bourbon maple syrup again soon!  
 

 That amber color is great on a load of flap jacks. Goes great on the eggs and hash brown. Ah heck, dip the toast in too. Jerry, curious to know the boil down rate of sap to syrup

[mowin]

4 minutes ago, landtracdeerhunter said:

 That amber color is great on a load of flap jacks. Goes great on the eggs and hash brown. Ah heck, dip the toast in too. Jerry, curious to know the boil down rate of sap to syrup

Hard maples, 40-1.  Soft maples 55-1.  As the season progresses, the rate goes up as the sugar levels drop in the sap. 

[corydd7]

Thanks for all the advice from everyone.  I did a small boil agin today and boiled to about 221 degrees instead of 219. Deeper color but I haven't tried it yet.

Sap flow has been slow hopefully it picks up.

[Buckmaster7600]

what do you guys do with all this syrup? Not trying to be funny, genuinely curious. I think my house uses 10 tablespoons per year max?

I use 3-4 gallons of syrup a year. I don’t use sugar for anything, it’s always maple syrup. I use it in cooking, baking and my coffee.


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[Steuben Jerry]

I was finally able to get the ATV in the woods on Monday afternoon without getting stuck. Tapped a few and will go see what I’ve got a little later today.

 

Edited February 23, 2022 by Steuben Jerry

[corydd7]

Great couple days in Orange county. Each five gallon bucket was filled just from the last two days. After my last boil tonight I will be at one gallon which was my goal. 

[dinorocks]

I couldn’t let a maple syrup season go by without doing some sugaring!  I managed to scrape enough equipment together so I could tap some trees.  It felt good to be in the woods feeding the fire with wood and my pan with sap, although not so good when I turned around to see the burnt remains of my Bone Creek Sugar Shack.  Life goes on and it’s much too short to be lamenting about things gone bad (still planning Bone Creek II).

 

[dinorocks]

Did a little archeological exploration in the Bone Creek ruins and found my prized axe head and my box of tree taps (although the box had burnt to ashes and the taps were re-melted into a large aluminum ingot -the few stainless steel taps managed to survive except most are encased in the ingot!).  

[The_Real_TCIII]

All of my syrup last season was extremely light…never seen anything like it before.  Typically my first boil is light then things darken up (I assumed due to increase in bacteria).  
 
I hope to make my bacon, bourbon maple syrup again soon!  
 

Omg I need to come up with a trade to get a jar of that!


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[suburbanfarmer]

56 minutes ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

Omg I need to come up with a trade to get a jar of that!


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I would pay the right price for all that work..

[OldBrian]

Filmed at Dino's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSwDjGnupE

[mowin]

Got one decent run 10 day ago. Lucky it got cold and froze solid in our building tank as we didn't get another run till this past Sunday.  Boiled down 500 gal Monday.  Hopefully we'll get another run end of this week.  Been a PITA with all this wind. Constantly walking the sugarbush fixing lines.  

Edited March 9, 2022 by mowin

[corydd7]

On 3/8/2022 at 10:29 PM, OldBrian said:

Filmed at Dino's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSwDjGnupE

Really cool stuff Brian!

[corydd7]

A gallon and a half of syrup! Learned a ton this year with a little to go.

I also learned if you want to finish the syrup indoors on a stove top when you forget about it for a minute or so your wife gets really mad when your kitchen is full of smoke and you ruin your boil. That might have happened twice this year.

 

Filled two of these today.

[dinorocks]

Finished processing just under 300 gallons of sap this evening …ended up with 7.25 gallons of syrup.  Lots of work carrying sap through the woods in the mud…at least I had a little help from my mom…although she wasn’t too keen on rappelling down the hill to get sap.

With the warm weather forecasted, this might be it for the season in my neck of the woods  (5.125 gallons on boil number one and 7.25 gallons today).  I typically get three boils a season but it was a bit more challenging without my sugar shack and I was light on equipment.

Looking forward to some bacon syrup on French toast in the morning!

[BowmanMike]

I just finished my first boil two days ago,it has been a slow start here.

I got some walls for the shack up,i hope to be able to work on the roof soon.

[dinorocks]

Looking good Mike!  I like the natural corner posts!  What type of wood are the posts…bark looks like Osage or possibly locust.