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2022 maple season


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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!  
 

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Nice color .The dark is my favorite though .

 

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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!  
 

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That's awesome! 

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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!  
 

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 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

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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. 

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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).

 

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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!).  

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


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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.  

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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.

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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!

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