With three sap boils completed and bottled, I went out to the garage to get pictures of them and realized that the pictures just wouldn't do.
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| Boil #1 |
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| Boils #2 and #3 |
Fortunately, both SP and I are home today on this 10th snow day of the year, so I asked him to bring them all in for a better picture and to write up our numbers. The yields were a bit disappointing as we realize that a lot was lost in re-bottling and our more efficient (ie less time consuming) filtering process. There is 3/4 a gallon of the sugar dregs, but it will be put to use to make sugar or maybe even candy. Here are our boil tallies.
Boil #1
We boiled ~ 150 gallons of sap ( while it is hard to keep track of buckets, we could do a better job estimating.
Yield = 1.7 gallons of syrup.
Here it is bottled in clean Barq rootbeer and Corona bottles. (best for gifts and trades)
Boil #2
Again, we boiled ~ 150 gallons of syrup.
Yield: 2 gallons of syrup, bottled in the bottles of Conoroita and
Ginger Libation . If you have not yet had Ginger Libation, run now to the nearest store and get some. It is one of the best new England Handcrafted fermented beverages ever.
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| Those are the large Ginger Libation bottles in the back. |
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Boil #3
Once again, we boiled ~ 150 gallons of syrup. This time we had a better yield.
Yield: 3.5 gallons of dark syrup bottled in 1/2 gallon jars.
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| There's SP the sap master doing his calculations |
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| That lonely one in the center is bound for our refrigerator any minute. |
Last but not least, the 3/4 gallon of sugar sand rich dregs that have great potential for our culinary adventures.
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