{"id":330,"date":"2013-03-15T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2013-03-15T01:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:26:46","slug":"bottled-syrup-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Syrup Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold overnight again.\u00a0 Single digits maybe 8.\u00a0 Sunny during the day.\u00a0 Up to 35.\u00a0 By Noon we got a little melt.\u00a0 Some trees tried to run.\u00a0 But when it gets so cold it takes time for them to warm up.<\/p>\n<p>Prepared the kitchen for bottling:\u00a0 started the propane gas, washed the filter press,\u00a0 brought over bottles, filter aid and other supplies for bottling.\u00a0 By 2:30 PM we were finally ready to get the syrup on the finishing pan.\u00a0\u00a0 Takes about 2 hours to reach a boil and finish.\u00a0 It starts about 30 brix and needs to get to 32 brix for finished syrup.<\/p>\n<p>We bottled 16 quarts and 26 pints:\u00a0 7.5 gallons.\u00a0 One pint bottle broke.\u00a0 Likely a flaw in the glass that caused it to break when the hot syrup hit it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>We hope to collect tomorrow before the snow moves in.\u00a0 We are forecast to get 2\u201d-4\u201d.\u00a0 And then it stays below freezing for the next few days.\u00a0 And another chance of snow on Monday.\u00a0 Not exactly the weather we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold overnight again.\u00a0 Single digits maybe 8.\u00a0 Sunny during the day.\u00a0 Up to 35.\u00a0 By Noon we got a little melt.\u00a0 Some trees tried to run.\u00a0 But when it gets so cold it takes time for them to warm up. Prepared the kitchen for bottling:\u00a0 started the propane gas, washed the filter press,\u00a0 brought over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-season96"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}