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 […]
Prior to running this years syrup (2014) I figured I would run what I had left over of last years (2013) syrup though Daryl Sheets Filter Press. I probably had a little more than a gallon of syrup that I had real issues filtering last year. Some of the frustration I now know was finishing […]
