All done....pulled the taps this evening, and will wash the buckets and put them away. I'm glad to be finished, but it did sting a little to dump that 35 gallons of sap tonight.
My goal was to make 2-3 gallons of syrup, just to have some for us and be able to give the rest away....well, after boiling down 280 gallons of sap, we ended up with around six gallons. Already planning to increase production yet again next year.
It's bittersweet. One one hand it's good to be done, but on the other it's kinda' sad.
My wife, skimming foam:
My family, with the ash door open on the evaporator so they could make smores: (Boil got so violent with door open it worried me)
Sunset on syrup:
