Luckily for me, I had last Friday off to prep the evaporator for our first maple sap boil last weekend. There were 2 major project on deck that needed to be completed. First was to modify my poly 35 gallon leg tank to make it a little more user friendly. For anyone familiar with these […]
I finally got some time to boil. It’s a good thing too! We had maybe close to 40 gallons of sap that needed boiling right away. I had done my best to keep the 5-gallon pails buried in the snow bank, but after a string of warm spring days with temperatures well into the 50’s, […]
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%. […]
