{"id":575,"date":"2018-03-21T18:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:29:16","slug":"faulty-hydrometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Hydrometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a faulty hydrometer.&nbsp; That explains the problems we had problems boiling from so much nitre and the over dense batch of syrup.&nbsp; And why it took 2+ hours between batches when last year it was about an hour.&nbsp; It also explains why we had problems getting syrup through the filter press: it was too thick from being over dense.<\/p>\n<p>We bottled today.&nbsp; When the milk can was emptied into the finishing pan it was a thick as molasses.&nbsp; We couldn&#8217;t get all the syrup out of the milk can.&nbsp; This raised a red flag.&nbsp; We could tell it was too dense and added sap into the finishing pan to reduce it before we started the burners.&nbsp; We ordered a new hydrometer yesterday and it arrived today.&nbsp; When the syrup came to a boil we tested it.&nbsp; It was still over dense.&nbsp; Cut back with more sap to reach 31.&nbsp; Then boiled a little longer to reach proper density.&nbsp; It went through the filer press without problems.<\/p>\n<p>By adding sap back we made the batch bigger.&nbsp; Bottled 9 \u00bd gallons, one of the largest batches we can recall.<\/p>\n<p>With faulty instruments the results are faulty too.&nbsp; We now wonder how much of the previous batches are over dense.<\/p>\n<p>26 overnight.&nbsp; Partly cloudy.&nbsp; Tried to reach 33 for a little while then dropped again.&nbsp; Trees tried to drip: the sun warmed them but it never got warm enough to drip much.<\/p>\n<p>Forecast is 20 tonight and 43 tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a faulty hydrometer.&nbsp; That explains the problems we had problems boiling from so much nitre and the over dense batch of syrup.&nbsp; And why it took 2+ hours between batches when last year it was about an hour.&nbsp; It also explains why we had problems getting syrup through the filter press: it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-season-101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}