AAASTINKIE is HERE!!

[PolishWineP]

Nice label! Bombed away!

Edited by: PolishWineP

 

[Wade E]

Joan, those bombs would more likely BSGB's, Body Seeking Grolsh Bottles!

 

[Joanie]

Hehehe

I was told there was going to be a sampling last night. I'm still waiting for the critique! Maybe there was too much sampling!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Hey!! I just had one to check for carbonation!! It was strong but started tasting pretty good by the end of the glass...

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I got my first 100 buckets out today, have to get to work now!!

 

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[Wade E]

Thats alot of buckets!

 

[grapeman]

Way to go Stinkie. Looks like a row of tasty syrup on the tree! What do you collect the sap in? What do you use to boil with?


It reminds me of when I was a kid last century. We had a row of Sugar Maples along the road we would tap every spring. A lot of work collecting it up and boiling it down, but we all really enjoyed it.

 

[Waldo]

WOW.!!!!

 

[jobe05]

Frank, my hats off to ya buddy....... I don't know how you do it.


Looks fantastic

Please post more picture as you progress.


I wish there were Maple trees like that in NC.......

 

[peterCooper]

I was at a DoD Cybercrime conference in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago. I won a flagon (1 qt) of Maine Maple syrup. Haven't opened it yet, mostly because I find it difficult sometimes to use expensive things on myself
(except wine toys of course)

It's amazing watching Frank's photos to imagine how many buckets went into that quart flagon.

 

[grapeman]

It's amazing watching Frank's photos to imagine how many buckets went into that quart flagon.

Peter, that would be about 10 gallons of sap, average runs about 40 gallons sap= 1 gallon syrup.

 

[Waldo]

stinkie, have you ever had any problem with anyone emptying your buckets for themselves?

 

[jobe05]

Planning a road trip Waldo??????

 

[Wade E]

Is there a Maple Monster?

 

[AAASTINKIE]

stinkie, have you ever had any problem with anyone emptying your buckets for themselves?

No, but they do steal a few buckets every year, they leave the spouts, I think it's just someone who wants a few 5 gallon pails with handles.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Put 100 more buckets out yesterday, 200 total now, thats all I think, getting too warm too fast again this year, I'll be hauling sap tomorrow. Today I'm racking the blueberry to the secondarys, looks like 7.5 gallons now, but I'll loose more at the next racking.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I collect with the 6 gallon buckets, the ones on the trees are 4.5, I dump into the blue 1/2 drum and the pump pumps it up into the tank which holds 275 gallons.

 

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