Running Tap Lines.

[Axiom]

cool...

[Roon]

Update, did what I was trying to avoid. After last night's start up, took way too much effort to heat barrel with closed lid.

This morning cut and fit pans in place. Had a boil in 15 minutes, plus it's Suzie approved.

Looking good and getting ready for pancakes.

[Roon]

Just a little GIF of some of nature's magic taking place.

Edited February 11, 2017 by Roon

[Roon]

Some of the fruits of the labor are coming to lite!

This is blackwalnut syrup about to happen. Started yesterday with about 40 gallons now reduced to 1 gallon. Temperature boiling at 213 degrees 6 more to go and we officially have syrup.

Maple still reducing had well over 100 gallons still collecting daily but now down to 20 gallons.

And still have few more weeks possible for gathering.

[Roon]

Pots are getting smaller and so is my yield, can't seem to get to that magic mark.

[Roon]

Just to get it into perspective, this was once 40 gallons, and still being reduced

[rgw]

how far do you reduce it, i cant believe out of 40 gal thats all you get

[Roon]

Boom magic number 219 hit. 40 gallons of blackwalnut sap gave "3" cups YES "3" cups of syurp. Now you know why it is so expensive for real syurp.

[Haskell_Hunter]

Can you continue to reduce and follow the sugar ranges to make candy from it?

 

 

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[Roon]

Can you continue to reduce and follow the sugar ranges to make candy from it?

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Yes 234 degrees will make sugar candies

[Rusty]

Boom magic number 219 hit. 40 gallons of blackwalnut sap gave "3" cups YES "3" cups of syurp. Now you know why it is so expensive for real syurp.

 

 

Wow, that's crazy.  

[Roon]

What a difference some research and building a better evaporator makes. Boiled like crazy this weekend, started with ballpark 150ish gallons. Down to 2.5 gallons of some real good stuff. Still collecting and hopefully will get some more blackwalnut sap, cause that stuff is definitely worth making, not bad for an experiment.

[Haskell_Hunter]

Yeah, I learned a thing or two about evaporation while brewing beer.  The larger the surface area the higher the evaporation rate.  I assume that's why you're boiling in hotel pans.