Taps out 5 weeks now. Last week at this time it looked like an historically poor season. Now we project we have 90% of the crop. Sap has to move: trees need it for food to bring out the leaves. With one more run we could get an average season.
34 overnight. Cloudy most of the day until late with temperature up top 45. Rain forecast for tonight.
Into the woods by 4:00 AM. Sap to 7 Brix with the R/O. The R/O has a small spigot for testing Brix. We tasted sap from it. Hadn’t tried that before. It’s sweet.
The day cooking.
4:30 R/O start
5:45 batch
6:40 R/O done
6:40 5.25” concentrate
7:30 4.0”
7:35 batch
8:05 batch
8:30 1.0”
8:50 done
Back to the farmhouse by 9:00 AM.