{"id":618,"date":"2019-03-23T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2020-02-08T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:39:25","slug":"bottling-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Bottling Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>20 overnight.\u00a0 43 and sunny today.\u00a0 Above 32 by 9:30 AM.\u00a0 Trees started dripping.\u00a0 By Noon, dripping at a good rate with PSI up to 15.\u00a0 We will wait to collect until tomorrow to catch the complete run.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Into the woods by 8:00 AM to empty a milk can into the finishing pan.\u00a0 It was ready by 9:30 AM.\u00a0 Filtered and started bottling.\u00a0 But didn\u2019t watch temperature carefully and the syrup got too hot and precipitated out particles making it cloudy.\u00a0 We were about half done.\u00a0 Stopped bottling this batch.\u00a0 \u00a0 Back into the finishing pan along with half of milk can of syrup to finish and filter again.\u00a0 Every year we seem to mess up a batch.\u00a0 The syrup is good, its just more work to cut back density with sap, re-finish and re-filter.\u00a0 \u00a0We only bottled 1 \u00bd milk cans.\u00a0 The plan was to bottle two milk cans.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The trees will drip into the late evening.\u00a0 Forecast low is 30.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Back to the farmhouse by 3:00 PM.<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 overnight.\u00a0 43 and sunny today.\u00a0 Above 32 by 9:30 AM.\u00a0 Trees started dripping.\u00a0 By Noon, dripping at a good rate with PSI up to 15.\u00a0 We will wait to collect until tomorrow to catch the complete run. \u00a0 Into the woods by 8:00 AM to empty a milk can into the finishing pan.\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-season-102"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}