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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
34 overnight. Cloudy most of the day until late with temperature up top 45. Rain forecast for tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019t tried that before. It\u2019s sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day cooking.
4:30 R\/O start
5:45 batch
6:40 R\/O done
6:40 5.25\u201d concentrate
7:30 4.0\u201d
7:35 batch
8:05 batch
8:30 1.0\u201d
8:50 done<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back to the farmhouse by 9:00 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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