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Doing a boil down of 140 gallons of sap today, and by tonight I am going to see the 3.5 gallons of golden syrup.
Looking for some liquid gold.
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mmmm the sugar shack!
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I have no idea what your talking about ?? 
'oh, I see your making maple syrup... Cool !!
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treasure comes in all forms! altough real maple syrup is an aqquired taste i prefer it over colored corn syrup!
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Did about 15 gallons or more last year, gave it all away to folks that love a great product.
oh, I see your making maple syrup... Cool !!
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Our trees have not been hardly flowing. they were tapped about ten days ago, only nine gallons of sap last saturday. 80 trees, northwest WI
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Have you tapped all 80 trees?
We have 350 on the property the previous owner told me, I haven't counted them yet. I have 6 pipelines (55 taps) going this season along with 20 buckets, I didn't want too many going as I'm not around for a part of the season this year.
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I have wanted to do that my whole life. I can't wait to hear how much you got. I bet you it taste 100x better than the store bought stuff, the store bought kind is probably not even from real trees
. I have a feeling the hard work is about to pay off.
. I have a feeling the hard work is about to pay off.
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One of the most patriotic pastimes of the average Canadian.
I'd do it too if I lived there and had access to the trees. That stuff's delicious - and mad expensive too!
I'd do it too if I lived there and had access to the trees. That stuff's delicious - and mad expensive too!
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I have wanted to do that my whole life. I can't wait to hear how much you got. I bet you it taste 100x better than the store bought stuff, the store bought kind is probably not even from real trees
Well it's bottled and the out come is 5 gallons of syrup. It's a pretty dark grade for being the first tapping but there seems to be lots of minerals in this batch, which produced a real nice flavour. I'll post up the picture tomorrow.
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Superb! I did that on a smaller scale with my father back in Maryland. We had a few gigantic old sugar maples that gave us some top-notch syrup. Really is a fun activity.
Thanks for sharing this, I like seeing people doing awesome things.
Thanks for sharing this, I like seeing people doing awesome things.
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Outstanding! Luxury set up!
I have done it on our back firepit with large food trays. Takes a LOT of firewood.
I have done it on our back firepit with large food trays. Takes a LOT of firewood.
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Great colour Charlie, that's what makes the home brewed syrup so good as every season it's a bit different in colour and taste. We purchased the equipment from the previous owner of the property, luxurious in some ways and it needs a lot of tweaking in other ways.
There's a few pressing things like taking care of critter proofing as in this brain fart of starting up the stove to do general clean up last week, it wouldn't draft properly and by the time I figured it out it was a smoke house. The next day I drained the pans, removed them and reached up into the chimney flume and discovered the culprit.
EVICTION ORDER for the winter vagabond. It's amazing on how much one critter can stuff in a 6" pipe.
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Yummm. All adds to the special "characteristics" of the batch.
My Dad worked at a brewery in the 1930's and told of some of the things he cleaned out of the mash boilers and fermenting tanks. I never knew him to drink a beer.
Happily he never worked at a distillery.
My Dad worked at a brewery in the 1930's and told of some of the things he cleaned out of the mash boilers and fermenting tanks. I never knew him to drink a beer.
Happily he never worked at a distillery.
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My brother did it for a few years and I would go to the almish and get the slab wood for him. He would make about 50 gal a season. Had a big sugarshack. later in the season when it was a little bitter they would sell it to a company man where it is mixed with the commercial syrups. Nothing like making poached eggs or hotdogs in the end of the syrup tray before ya draw off a batch. Yum Yum! Have done syrup many times and it is always cool.
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Looks tasty, PepperJ. You just got to love the cameraderie when the sap is on the boil. We used to do it too. When my daughter was still in college, she'd come home every day to tap our trees and make syrup. She won the local contests with it two years in a row. She does it now at her own place and she's threatening to come tap our trees next year, haha.
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We have about 80 taps out. We usually cook down about 300 gal each year. Most fun you can have working hard!plus excellent reward at the end.
We have about 80 taps out. We usually cook down about 300 gal each year. Most fun you can have working hard!plus excellent reward at the end.
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Well here's a photo of what's remaining, dropped some off already to friends that have large appetite for the syrup. Now the clean up, and putting it to bed for a few weeks.
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True gold! Nothing like the real deal!
Hey funnel that steam & smoke toward the snow it melts real fast!
Hey funnel that steam & smoke toward the snow it melts real fast!
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