Keep Your Maple Sap Cold - When Temperatures Rise

Warmer temperatures may mean more sap flow, but once the temperatures exceed 50 degrees Fahrenheit, your sap can risk spoiling while it hangs from jugs, buckets or bags. It's essential to check your sap often, and move the sap out of your buckets or bags, and store it in a cold place. A chest freezer offers a great way to completely freeze the sap, allowing for much longer storage (weeks if needed) and also keeping the sap in excellent condition.
When you're ready to boil again, remove the sap and allow it to thaw a bit, so you can place it in your evaporator pan and begin the boiling process. Thanks for watching! We invite you to like, comment and share our video and follow our channel for more maple syruping and outdoor videos.

[@Dick-d1m]

At what temperature exactly does sap soil..
Thank you..

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Hi, great question. For sap, any temperature over freezing will result in it spoiling. However, at 33 degree F, it may take 7 or 10 days, for it to degrade. In your refrigerator, at 36 degrees, the sap will remain viable for about 5-7 days. At 50 degrees, the sap will spoil in less than 8 hours. Remember, that's the temperature of the sap - not necessarily the ambient temperatures. As you may have seen in our video, the outside temperature in the sunshine was 51 degrees, but our sap was 38 degrees. This is common early in the season, when the ground is still very cold. Later in the season, mid-March for example, the soil will heat up into the 40s, and when combined with a very warm, sunny day - at 60 degrees, the sap will spoil in 4 hours in the midday sunshine. So, it's essential to keep the sap cold...the colder, the better. If you freeze the sap, you can keep it for a year, in a chest freezer and thaw it out and boil it to make delicious syrup. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching our channel!