{"id":2335,"date":"2026-03-24T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:09:59","slug":"sugar-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wondering how we every cooked syrup before the R\/O. We\u2019ve had to relearn the work flow. It\u2019s lots of hard work and long hours. Only 12 hours today. The fan helped all day. We\u2019re burning mostly pine and cedar, low BTU woods. It\u2019s almost impossible to get long sustained boils. We need beech, maple, oak and other high BTU woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day cooking.<br>7:00 AM 22\u201d<br>8:00 AM 19 \u00be\u201d<br>9:00 AM 18 \u00bc\u201d<br>10:00 AM 16\u201d<br>11:00 AM 14\u201d<br>11:20 AM batch<br>12:00 PM 12 \u00bd\u201d<br>1:00 PM 10 \u00bc\u201d<br>2:00 PM 7 \u00be\u201d<br>3:00 PM 6\u201d<br>3:05 PM batch<br>4:00 PM 4\u201d<br>5:00 PM 1 \u00bc\u201d<br>5:30 PM done<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two more days of cooking. Mid-30s overnight. Cloudy morning. Sunny late. By 11:00 AM temperature warmed to mid-40s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019ve had to relearn the work flow. It\u2019s lots of hard work and long hours. Only 12 hours today. The fan helped all day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-season-109"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}