My syrup is very light...I'd say like the color of beer. It has an almost butterscotch taste to it...and is pretty runny. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot, but wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if this is pretty much normal. I've been boiling small batches. I take it up to almost 220*, and then sometimes after it cools, I'll reboil it again.
Maple Syrup
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My syrup is very light...I'd say like the color of beer. It has an almost butterscotch taste to it...and is pretty runny. Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot, but wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if this is pretty much normal. I've been boiling small batches. I take it up to almost 220*, and then sometimes after it cools, I'll reboil it again.
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I know very little about it, but I do watch what rp7x does and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I would guess it needs to be boiled down much more. It gets darker and darker as you boil it and should be much darker. I'm sure someone will chime in that knows more than I do, which isn't much! 
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Retail price is $15 to $20/qt. Either sell it or make your family and friends very happy. I put it on my Easter ham, half quart right there.
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I know very little about it, but I do watch what rp7x does and I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I would guess it needs to be boiled down much more. It gets darker and darker as you boil it and should be much darker. I'm sure someone will chime in that knows more than I do, which isn't much!
Ok, so I used a digital thermometer tonight, and got things looking and tasting much more like good, fresh maple syrup. My candy thermometer was off a couple degrees.
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I got some maple syrup from rp7x and it is awesome! I find myself just eating teaspoon after teaspoon of it all by itself. Man, it's good.
Couple of pics of my neighbors cooker. It works well. Pretty crude but hey. The underside is all lined with fire brick next to cinder blocks.
Cinder blocks will be one year use. They crumble from being exposed to all the heat.
Any of you take it beyond syrup? My neighbor cooks batches down for diff purposes.
Like make it more like caramel consistency for putting on ice cream.
Or take it down to sugar. He cooks it down until you can see the crystals. It is very close to burning so you have to be careful.
He then lets it solidify. Breaks it up in to chunks. Then uses a small coffee grinder to make it in to maple sugar. They sprinkle it on toast with breakfast.
Back to winter around here this weekend. So nothing flowing but still time. Not a bud in sight.
Need some bigger temp swings from night to day.
I have aquired an old oil barrel for free from a friend. I just have to get it out of his house this year.
Thinking of doing some thing like this. It is the same tank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re3cUWOpz6A
Cinder blocks will be one year use. They crumble from being exposed to all the heat.
Any of you take it beyond syrup? My neighbor cooks batches down for diff purposes.
Like make it more like caramel consistency for putting on ice cream.
Or take it down to sugar. He cooks it down until you can see the crystals. It is very close to burning so you have to be careful.
He then lets it solidify. Breaks it up in to chunks. Then uses a small coffee grinder to make it in to maple sugar. They sprinkle it on toast with breakfast.
Back to winter around here this weekend. So nothing flowing but still time. Not a bud in sight.
Need some bigger temp swings from night to day.
I have aquired an old oil barrel for free from a friend. I just have to get it out of his house this year.
Thinking of doing some thing like this. It is the same tank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re3cUWOpz6A