The Official 2022 Maple Syrup Thread !

Only boiled a little over 30 gallons. Finished product is AMAZING. I’ll never do it again on a turkey fryer but I will do it again.

 

Sounds like you might get your wish !

 

Agree. Our first year boiling this year. Spent around $80 on propane already. Next year will be wood fired for sure!!

 

Bottled up today...what we boiled on Friday. Bottled and ready to go !

 

It was a lot of fun, but if I would had a fire to feed and poke I would have been even happier.

 

Collected 300 gallons this morning..still running !
Syrup is walking out of the medium and into the dark. My favorite !
Beautiful sunset this morning. Blessed to live in a beautiful neck of the woods !

 

Very nice. What’s your evaporator measure?

 

Hey thanks!!!!It's suppose to be a 2 x 5 and a half ..some weird size. So we block off the weird measurement...and slapped a 2x5 pan on top. Does pretty well !

 

Do you use forced air on the fire?

 

Yes....on a variable speed switch

 

I gathered almost 200 gallon this morning , only 1 1/2 % sugar content. Getting pretty dark syrup. It takes 57 gallon of sap to make a gallon of syrup at 1 1/2 % . Probably gather tomorrow morning and pull taps at the same time.

 

I hear you on that. We are pretty fortunate..hanging at a hair over 2 percent here. Looks like a small collection tomorrow..then that's about here I think as well

 

Been fun !

 

Only collected 100 gallons of sap today. Trees are still slowly running...but won't be enough to collect again we are guessing. Ro done chewing through it..now we are slowly boiling it off. Bottled what we boiled last night !

 

Yes it has ,can't hardly wait till next year.

 

Go go go for a month...then 11 months off lol !!!
Already looking forward to expanding and trying new things !

 

Pretty similar here. Pretty hard to keep sap from spoiling when it’s nearly 70 hard maple has really slowed down. I have 25 gallons off Black walnut sap to boil off tomorrow. Then whatever I end up collecting from the trees. Probably only about 35ish gallons. I believe that will be about it up here. I’m excited to try my new diy vacuum filter tonight for the first time… Here’s some pics of the build:









I had the brew kettle sitting unused for years in my basement. The stainless steel bucket came from the farm and fleet. Probably only have 50 into it on top of the 75 I paid years ago for the kettle.

 

That's awesome..can't wait to see how it works out for you !

 

Adding vacuum to filter maple syrup is a game changer I look forward to it now. You will like it Brad