Maple Syrup: Season 2. For Sale and B.S. thread

Eeeuw!

 

LOL

 

Not sure if i mentioned this earlier. My last shipment of plastic quart bottles came with the wrong state logo on them. They assured me they would sent some Connecticut bottles. Well I've been waiting. ..and waiting. Called to see what was going on yesterday. Low and behold the CT bottles are backordered with no timeline. So I told them to just send me a generic jug. Next year I'll be going with a different company for bottles for sure. This has put me behind 2 weeks on bottling for you guys.

 

please please please ask your daughter to decorate the bottles heading my way with a sharpie?? Give her a break from helping you... unleash her on the quart bottles... provided that she writes CT on it somewhere, right?

 

I like this idea. I should have gotten some blank ones. I hope you like rainbows, hearts, and unicorns lol

 

This, sir, is a great idea!!!!

 

I can arrange that....but she'll likely do blue. Its the best color

 

Gotta make sure she puts CT on it. Unicorns are the national animal of Scotland so don't want to get confused and have people think it's Scottish maple syrup.

 

Well it appears that not giving up on the season last week, and going out to ream the taps was a great idea. The weather helped too. Our sap has been running 1.6-2.1% sugar this year. What we got today is almost 4%. Doesn't seem like a huge difference but when you go from a sap to syrup ratio (gallons) of 50:1 down to 25:1 It's a huge deal. I was thinking today I'd run out of fire wood before sap....well I won't let that happen now, this stuff is too sweet not to cook. We have burned about 8-10 cords so far and I'll be splitting more asap and hopefully Friday I can take a drive to my buddies saw mill and pick up his scrap pine slabs, those burn fast and hot and its free, I just trade some syrup for it. Still need to mix in some hardwood here and there but it's easy to split and makes sap boil which is all I need.

 

Who doesn't?

 

Got about 300 gallons of sap today. Supposed to be very cold this weekend so probably won't have much til next week. I am working this weekend so my brother will be cooking what I got today and hopefully bottle some more up.

 

@Pudge
Are you shipping? I did not see a link to buy, forgive me if I missed it.

 

He's all out. Sorry. Try again next year

 

Nice one!

 

Worth a try.

 

I'm still waiting for my plastic quart bottles to arrive. I had a nightmare with my supplier, which has trickled down into you having a nightmare with your supplier. Goal is next week to get 40 or 50 quarts bottled up and shipped out. Sorry for the delay everyone

I like the effort!

 

@Pudge

After reading this thread, you need not apologize for anything... You're the one putting in a sh@tload of effort for all of us... THANK YOU

I'll happily wait for the deliciousness.

 

Quit

 

I've been MIA on here lately. Any chance you are going to cook some down to cream or candy?

 

@Pudge on my way to CT today. I'll be driving back from Plainfield to Hartford on Wednesday. If you want, please send me a PM of where you are located so I can see if I can move swing by on my way back to airport. If out of direction from my travels then prob not, but need to see where you are to see if I could make it. Thanks bud.

 

Waive at my truck as you land, I'm directly across the street from Bradley Airport.

 

Nice. I'm landing at 11PM EST so I won't be able to see anything LOL

 

And my shift ends at 4:00 so I'm not sticking around for 7 hours to watch your plane land.

 

Just keep the tundra with the emergency blinkers on so I can spot it LOL

 

LOL. Maybe for one of the more famous members

 

My house is in the flight path too so keep your eyes out for the 4-ways on.

 

Nope. Should be flying out right before it. I leave Wed afternoon.

 

I should be around Wednesday. I'll shoot you a PM

 

I brought in the last of the dry fire wood we had left. Supposed to snow tomorrow so I wanted it inside. Not sure what I can do after that is burned if the trees are still flowing. Might have to call it a year, or buy some dry wood. We'll see what happens. Should be able to get some quarts bottled this weekend though. That will be nice....especially for all of you!

 

Got 150 gallons of sap today, will cook it tomorrow. It was almost 3% sugar which is nice normally we are 1.7-2.3% Earlier in the week it was 4% which was awesome. I figured out the higher sugar content was because of the sap freezing in the buckets. Water in the sap freezes before sugar sap so the ice is mostly water, so basically the ice is low sugar content. I dumped any ice out today seeing it's low on sugar content. I did some figuring on the iced sap theory and will likely start dumping ice out if it's around 1/4 or less of the total sap. After 1/4 there is too much sugar to waste. Kinda cool.

Anyway. I have 120 plastic quart bottles that will be full of syrup this weekend!!! We're getting close guys and gals. Oh and we are up to about 75 gallons this year, well beyond our 50 gallon goal and 55 gallon output from last year. We have a real chance to reach 80 gallons this season, thats around 4000 gallons of sap to make that syrup!! So about 35,000 lbs of sap collected thus far, about 150 hours of cooking, and maybe 8 cords of wood cut, split, and burned.