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 warming we needed to bottle a batch. It was also a good time for us to work out the kinks on Daryl Sheets Filter Press.
We will need to wait until tomorrow morning after the syrup cools to confirm the grade, but this appears to be a very tasty dark amber with a robust flavor! (28) 8 ounce bottles plus one almost full bottle for the fridge. Based on full bottles we are at 1.75 gallons of syrup for the season.
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