John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️After much boiling, minutes from being finished syrup. About 7.5L, despite yesterday's sap disaster. #canada #maplesyrup #ottawa.
More sap to collect in the coming days & weeks!
this phone records sound in slow-mo mode, and then pitch shifts it back to normal pitch...makes for interesting burbling sounds. Next time I will try saying "syrup!" and see how that comes out. 😃
the video from yesterday, at the start of the boil, was in a 50L pot. This video is in a 16L pot. 2 50L pots boiled and refilled a few times, to reduce 300L of sap at 2.5% sugar to 7.5L of syrup at 65% sugar. I think it used about "40 lbs" of propane. Or the liquid propane volume equivalent of 40lbs of water, propane tank sizes being a bit odd...
Ev Delen@johnefrancis I wonder if there are more energy efficient ways of reducing...
Does sugar concentration increase from evaporation
@evdelen there are. Large operations use reverse osmosis first, then boil under vacuum in efficient boilers. I'd need to have hundreds of taps, collecting sap with suction tubing, storage tanks etc, to make the smallest commercial boilers worthwhile.
Reverse osmosis?!?! Neat... a scenario where the brine is the desired output, not the "clean" water. lol
I wonder if you could use some sort of solar based reducer? Like the solar water heaters popular throughout warmer climes.
@evdelen electric boiler powered by renewable generation... maybe a specialized heat pump with high temp output that can hit the boiling temp under vacuum?
A big solar concentrator?
The sap is delicious to yeasts and bacteria, so it can't be waiting around as a warm buffet, or you'll get maple vinegar or weak maple beer. I've heard brewers have tried it and its awful.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸@johnefrancis always wished I had acreage with lots of big leaf maple trees. There are a few places that make syrup on Vancouver Island! You need a lot more sap from them than the maples out east apparently!
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In-laws had a sugar bush and I can smell the sweet and smoke from memory. Lots of work and fun at the same time.
In-laws had a sugar bush and I can smell the sweet and smoke from memory. Lots of work and fun at the same time.