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Coleman you know I had to get in here somehow. LOL
JJ_Colt45
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Seeing this picture just made me think ... there's a guy at a state fair somewhere that had a big bowl of hot syrup just like that and thought ... "now if I wrap a pancake around a stick of butter ... and poke a stick in it ... then deep fat fry it ... they will come!" Then I immediately heard the guy from the old Guinness comercials say "BRILLANT!"
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Thanks for visiting my subforum! Awesome!
This year we aren’t selling. Sorry. There is a possibility that we may sell some next year.
Nate’s Knives
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Do you let it age?
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We have not aged any. This is our first year doing it ourselves.
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A lot of snow has melted the last 3 days. Lots of rain and flooding. Today is 20°C (68°F) and it’s beautiful!!
Two of our three ways to get home are now flooded and closed for the time being.
Huh. Beautiful? Does the sun not go that far north?
SharpBits
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Time to order an airboat!
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Wouldn’t that be fun! I’ll trade a sheath or two for a working airboat. Any takers? Lol
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I was thinking…it would be pretty awesome to collect sap in an airboat.
Funny thing is…the town I use to work in…they make airboats there. Just remembered.
SharpBits
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Real question: where do they use airboats in Canada?
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Real question: where don’t we use ariboats in Canada?
I actually don’t know the answer to this. Maybe they make them and then ship ‘em elsewhere?
We do have a lot of water in this northern area.
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We had our final boil last week on Thursday/Friday. It was late season sap and it was interesting to see the color difference during the boil process. I know you’ve seen it before, but I’m gonna rehash with this last boil of the season.
So it started off as clear sap…
About 2-3 hours into the boil, the boiling pan starts to change to a light yellowish color.
A few more hours later, you can see a darker yellow color happening.
And an hour later, an even darker yellow.
By the end of the first day, the sap is usually a darker amber color, however, on this late season sap the color turned reddish. I was worried that I possibly waited too long to boil.
It kept getting darker red.
And darker…(I did taste tests and everything tasted fine!)
It almost looks blood red in this photo.
Nearing the middle part of the second day of the process, the boiling pan sap turned very dark amber, this is the color I am used to seeing! Ha!
And then on hour 14, the sap is so close to finished. Just waiting for the bajillion bubbles and foam to call ‘er done!
So it started off as clear sap…
About 2-3 hours into the boil, the boiling pan starts to change to a light yellowish color.
A few more hours later, you can see a darker yellow color happening.
And an hour later, an even darker yellow.
By the end of the first day, the sap is usually a darker amber color, however, on this late season sap the color turned reddish. I was worried that I possibly waited too long to boil.
It kept getting darker red.
And darker…(I did taste tests and everything tasted fine!)
It almost looks blood red in this photo.
Nearing the middle part of the second day of the process, the boiling pan sap turned very dark amber, this is the color I am used to seeing! Ha!
And then on hour 14, the sap is so close to finished. Just waiting for the bajillion bubbles and foam to call ‘er done!
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Mmmm….all finished up and tastes superb!!
My brother was up for the weekend and we cut a new trail, in order to tap more trees next year.
We also pulled the buckets, lids and taps on Saturday. Yesterday, I spent the day having a bonfire and cleaning all of my sap collecting items. It seems sad to be done for the season.
My BIL had more sap than he could boil and gave me about 90 gallons of sap…however, it was bad when I got it, so unfortunately had to be dumped. This is what bad sap looks like…
Saturday morning breakfast, thanks to my lovely wife. Mmm…
Thank you all for taking this sap to syrup trip with me! It was a lot of fun and I’m stoked to continue next year, with even more trees!!
My brother was up for the weekend and we cut a new trail, in order to tap more trees next year.
We also pulled the buckets, lids and taps on Saturday. Yesterday, I spent the day having a bonfire and cleaning all of my sap collecting items. It seems sad to be done for the season.
My BIL had more sap than he could boil and gave me about 90 gallons of sap…however, it was bad when I got it, so unfortunately had to be dumped. This is what bad sap looks like…
Saturday morning breakfast, thanks to my lovely wife. Mmm…
Thank you all for taking this sap to syrup trip with me! It was a lot of fun and I’m stoked to continue next year, with even more trees!!
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Thank you for taking us on the trip with you! I learned a lot and had fun following along!