Collected 335 gallons of sap. Sugar is 1.7 Brix. Thinking of calling it a season. 1.7 Bix is a ratio of 50:1.
Wondering how we every cooked syrup before the R/O. We’ve had to relearn the work flow. It’s lots of hard work and long hours. Only 12 hours today. The fan helped all day. We’re burning mostly pine and cedar, low BTU woods. It’s almost impossible to get long sustained boils. We need beech, maple, oak and other high BTU woods.
The day cooking.
7:00 AM 22”
8:00 AM 19 ¾”
9:00 AM 18 ¼”
10:00 AM 16”
11:00 AM 14”
11:20 AM batch
12:00 PM 12 ½”
1:00 PM 10 ¼”
2:00 PM 7 ¾”
3:00 PM 6”
3:05 PM batch
4:00 PM 4”
5:00 PM 1 ¼”
5:30 PM done
Two more days of cooking. Mid-30s overnight. Cloudy morning. Sunny late. By 11:00 AM temperature warmed to mid-40s.