20 overnight. Sunny and mid 40s today. That cold spell impacted the trees more than expected. It’s taking time for the trees to recover. They are dripping now. Should dip into the night. Hopefully we can collect tomorrow.
We have six milk cans. Five are brushed stainless steel and one is shiny (304) stainless steel. We use the shiny can, number 2017, for transferring finished syrup from the finishing pan to the bottling pan and the other five cans for batches of syrup from the evaporator as we cook. To better manage the syrup, we wanted to number the milk cans. Sometimes we want to finish and bottle in a different order then we then we filled the milk cans with batches from the evaporator. Rather than assigning a generic number scheme like 100, 101, 102, etc. we stenciled on the year we acquired the can. Now we have a unique numbers on the cans so we can manage them better.
