Tonight was the best one day, sap run ever since we started sugaring last year. Today I filled five, five gallon buckets to the 4-gallon mark for a total of 20 gallons of sap! At 7pm, when i emptied the buckets, the taps were still dripping too. We had next to nothing running last Saturday. […]
I have found myself with a curious quandary regarding evaporation rates. One that could easily be solved if I took the time to carefully measure and record the amount of sap I boil off in a set period of time. While it sounds straightforward enough, my current liquid measuring tools are a 5 gallon bucket, […]
Well, after boiling for 6 hours on the evaporator, I reduced approximately 32-35 gallons of crystal clear sap with a sugar content of about 1.5% to approximately 5 gallons of sweet sap concentrate. I have no idea what the concentrate has for a sugar content, but I am going to guess its upwards of 10%. […]
