We continued bottling tonight and brought our very first batch of sap we made in our first weekend boil to syrup. As you can see the yield was a little better than last nights batch. This batch, which was the first sap run, also appears to be a little lighter than yesterdays batch, so possibly […]
Not much to report today but we did bottle up our first batch of syrup this season tonight. Ironically this is from sap that we boiled this past weekend, because we have no more cold storage — the fridge was full and the freezer is full of syrup or almost syrup and with the weather […]
Last weekend I finally got around to taking our last batch of maple sap concentrate and reducing it to syrup. An hour or so of boiling and we were ready to filter. This go around I wanted to use a jelly bag filter that I had read about online and ordered from Amazon. It was […]
