Still too warm.\u00a0 It did not freeze last night.\u00a0 It was sunny and about 50 today.\u00a0 But without a freeze the\u00a0 sap was not running.<\/p>\n
We were able to empty our storage tanks from yesterday’s collection.\u00a0 Into the woods around 9:00 am.\u00a0 By 8:00 pm we were done, all the storage tanks empty.\u00a0 We took four batches of syrup off the evaporator, but we doubled up the batches so we only bottled twice.\u00a0 16 quarts around 1:00 pm.\u00a0 15 quarts around 6:00 pm.\u00a0\u00a0 31 quarts total.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow and Friday are forecast for freezing nights, about 25,\u00a0 and highs in the 40s and sunny.\u00a0 That is what we need.\u00a0 The long range forecast says rain for next week.\u00a0 That is not a good sign.\u00a0 This season may end early.<\/p>\n
Last season we were running the syrup through the filter press twice in order to get clear syrup.\u00a0 That was a lot of work.\u00a0 We spoke with some other maple syrup producers at the annual meeting about it.\u00a0 We were bottling too hot.\u00a0 We need to be at 180 degrees to 185 degrees.\u00a0 We were typically bottling around 210 to 215 degrees.\u00a0 This was causing the particles to precipitate out of the syrup again and making it cloudy.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that we are holding 180-185 degrees we are able to filter only once.\u00a0 Saves a lot of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Still too warm.\u00a0 It did not freeze last night.\u00a0 It was sunny and about 50 today.\u00a0 But without a freeze the\u00a0 sap was not running. We were able to empty our storage tanks from yesterday’s collection.\u00a0 Into the woods around 9:00 am.\u00a0 By 8:00 pm we were done, all the storage tanks empty.\u00a0 We took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-season-92"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}