Maple syrup update day 5 🍁🥞

We did it! I think…

Sap harvest was low, didn’t get as warm today as prior days. Sent a finishing boil tonight. Went to 219F but with a relatively small amount had to swirl the syrup to get a reading I believed. Pulled it unfiltered and saw a lot of sentiment. Put a coffee filter in a sieve and filtered which got it really clear, but tore the filter trying to push it along so didn’t end up perfect. Yield was better than expected, ~ 12 oz. Might be a combo of me low balling the initial sap numbers (wasn’t measuring, just estimating) and/or not boiling enough.

Tastes amazing, looks like syrup, little cloudy, pretty good for the first time. Looking forward to collecting a bunch more sap and trying again with a better filter, maybe even a refractometer?