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

Like the scarface quote goes: don't get high on your own supply!

 

Such a fascinating thread, learn something new everyday!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

Put me down for a 32oz jug.

 

I want in....how do we order....I'm dreaming of waffles

 

Just got back with 200 more gallons I'm maxed out for storage at 700 gallons so I'm starting to boil

 

Have a good boil going. Got through almost 100 gallons so far. And just pulled off some of the good stuff.

 

Shut down for the day. Madelyn was exhausted and getting bored. We collected from 10-1 then cooked til 6 so I can't complain. Not bad for a 6 year old girl. Plus she got about 30 logs of firewood today through the mud.
I was able to pull off about a gallon of syrup, but that front pan has a ton of sugar in it. My brother will be cooking all day tomorrow and will probably make a ton of syrup while I'm at work.

 

Buy that girl some ice cream.

 

Anyone know how to post a video here? Was gonna show the boil and flow of sap.

 

Need to get the vid like on youtube or something and then upload here. You can't post a video directly on the forum unfortunately.

 

She ate about 20 spoons of syrup haha.
I'm making her fish sticks and tater tots right now. I do foresee a bowl of homemade ice cream in her future tonight.

 

Gotcha. That'll take some setting up. I'll try later

 

Take some pictures and send them to me. It's not too easy but I can probably do it. The sugar maples look very different AT different ages

 

Maple ice cream? Lol

 

I live about 200 yards from a dairy farm that makes milk,cheese, and ice cream. Good stuff , I should see if they wanna include some of my maple. They also sell my syrup there.

 

Yeah most of the places I've been sell Maple walnut, more $$$$ for you

 

Trying Tater tots with maple syrup is a huge possibility for me in the near future I'm thinkin....

 

Love this thread!!!!

 

My brother put a dent in the sap today. We had 700 gallons yesterday when I stared to boil, i got through about 100, he did about 400 today (he boiled for about 12 hours). So there's a couple hundred left to do tomorrow plus whatever is collected tomorrow. Right now it's snowing hard and we are supposed to get 6 inches or so tonight. But it's supposed to warm up all of next week so we should be getting tons more sap. We are off to a great start this year, one week in.
1st Picture just before drawing off some syrup, you can see there's lots if sugar up there because of the dark color
Then after pulling off a gallon or so of syrup. The darkest stuff is finished syrup, the lighter colored on the right has a ways to go and is flushed through from the back pan.



It's hard to explain but the liquid moves it's self along based on temp and viscosity, cold sap that enters the pan pushes everything forward. Sap slowly drips in the back pan and slowly comes out of the front pan as syrup. it's almost a constant flow in and out when your doing it right.

 

Had some pancakes and Nueskes bacon this morning for breakfast, while I used real maple syrup, I am looking forward to some of @Pudge maple syrup.

 

My brother boiled for 12 hours today and I took over at 8. Great season so far

 

Have about 20 gallons of syrup. By next weekend we should have 40ish. Hope to do some bottling next weekend

 

Who's syrup will this be?

 

Ooh, me me! Dibs!!

 

I'm shutting it down for today. Worked 12 hour shift then 4 hours here. Same deal tomorrow. Evaporator was boiling over 24 hours this weekend. Burned over a cord of wood lol.

 

Hey,
Where in CT are you? I might just be able to drive and pick some up.