Our season is in full gear right now, freezing nights, 40-ish days. Cannot keep up with only 10 trees!
Have a new Bayou Cooker and 64qt pot that can double for brewing to boil it down.
One thing that has helped is tossing out the ice from the bags before boiling. It takes the 40:1 ratio down to ~30:1. I loose some sugar in removing the ice, but it saves a lot of energy on the tail end of my process so it is worth some loss.
I have about 1 gallon produced so far, and another 2 gallon batch in the works. Just having trouble with wind and the cooker where the wind keeps pushing the flame out making it very inefficient. I have no shelter in which to keep the wind off. So it sits on the porch waiting for a quieter day to boil down.
I really wish an RO system was a bit more affordable to get me closer to syrup with little energy input.
