Two ways to test if syrup is done. Refractometer and hydrometer. Ohio states maple syrup needs to be 66-68 Brix (% sugar). IF less it could ferment, more and could crystallize

Being a coffee guy and beer guy #[0] there are treats not many experience. Coffee in a French press using sap straight from maple tree a couple weeks a year. Or homemade beer made with maple sap instead of water. My sap always runs about 2% sugar.

Filter and bottle day. 2 gravity maple syrup filters and each has 5 paper pre-filter that get out larger particle so main filters don't clog. Every 1 or 2 gallons pull 1 paper filter out.

Well #[0] getting bottled today. Interested in barter? I am not a wine drinker but have 1-2 bottles a year, probably merlot to go with steak. Once every 5 years we have extra grapes and make farmhouse wine, concord grapes, extra sugar and natural ferment, a lot foxy, but also do some hard cider every year, no additions natural ferment. Message how much syrup for some wine and where to send it. I will Definately send you 2 types from same trees. Wine isn't only thing with terroir, with syrup from Ohio with our great soil. And differences year to year, and nuances in the same year from same trees. Syrup for me is $15 a quart and usually $20-$25 at market. Let me know.

Brining pork belly with kosher salt and homemade "cooking" maple syrup from last year. 1 T of each/ lb. Fridge for a week and smoke over apple wood. "Cooking" syrup comes at the end of the season. Very dark and has an off taste from a metabolic change in trees when they start to bud. I don't eat it straight on stuff. but works great for brines. Heavy sauces, and cooking. Great natural sugar substitute.

With a nym like #[0] you definitely need syrup for sats. Bottling this weekend and sell as much as possible for bitcoin.

Looking in the fire chamber to cook maple syrup. The drop fins on the back pan add surface area and allow flames/heat way to get to chimney. That pan boils the hardest but is when sap is low concentration sugar.. It's called a flue pan. #[0] #[1] Maple Syrup and Sarah's soap samples coming to bitcoin park soon.

Posting a loss. And that is a scorched front pan. Happened within minutes, I left a valve closed. I lost a gallon maybe 2 of syrup. Front pan is separate so rest is fine. I have a 2nd front pan for cleaning and occasions like this. You aren't a sugarmaker till you burn a pan. Not 1st time.

Good workers gathering sap. Syrup for sats coming this week.

This is a grader. Three bottles on left are standards. Last batch is right. Graded very dark. Had for breakfast and was amazing. 1st batch graded golden which was lighter than one on left. Will be bottling today and listing prices this week. And yes they all taste a little different, and all great.

Got a little freeze last night. Mostly water freezes in the sap bucket. This concentrated the sap and helps me to less boiling. This sap tested at 3 % sugar instead of the normal 2 to 2 1/2 I usually get.

In need of a list of some nostr relays to add. Bitcoin, regen. farming, trad. pioneer skills. How do I start finding them? Are paid relays worth it?

Well #[0] I was out gathering sap all day, hard to get in house with muddy clothes. Reached in my pocket and..... from a neighbors farm that we butchered ourselves.

Any large/busy relays I can manually put in? I put in sethforprivacy and it seemed to help my experience here. I may be figuring this out a bit.

Found you #[1] #[2] I am seeing less of the people U follow on twitter, and engagement is way down, I don't think many of my followers are seeing my stuff. First maple sales on nostr this year if I ever figure it out. Tad busy right now.

Found you #[0] I am seeing less of the people U follow on twitter, and engagement is way down, I don't think many of my followers are seeing my stuff.

Well #[0] I made it. Don't know what I am doing yet, and won't have time for another month to figure it out. But I am bringing Maple and Sarah's Soaps to nostr.