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. […]
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%. […]
Well with plenty of sap on hand, and the evaporator set up it was time to see what this baby can do! I did a quick one hour boil with water to flush all the pans out before I was ready to get started with the maple sap. I probably had between 32-35 gallons of […]
