title: It's Really Working

Another successful weekend of evaporating. We started with 79 gallons of sap (really were able to utilize the preheater this time!) and made about one and a half gallons of syrup! I tried some different ways filtering but they still didn't end up doing much as far as filtering out the sugar sand. Basically the coffee filter worked but it took too long to get through for the rate that we needed to get it out of the pan. I'm thinking of getting a 5 gallon bucket that has a spout on the bottom where I can put completely finished syrup and just let that slowly drip through a filter into a pot and jar it from there. That'll probably be for next season but always thinking of ways to improve and taking notes. The sugar sand honestly isn't bad it just doesn't look as pretty. As you can see in the last picture this batch of syrup is really dark. Probably because we ended up boiling and reboiling the sap in the pan. We don't mind because it tastes more robust and nutty which both David and I like. Not sure how much longer this season will last but we'll keep collecting and boiling til the trees feel like quitting.

Total Sap Collected - 120 gallons