Uncle DT's Random Image Thread

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The way it was told to me by two different people that make syrup was that the Grade D was what you got when the bottom of the evaporator become covered in cooked/caramelized/burnt syrup. One place (April's Maple) when she was just starting said that out of the 55 barrels they produced they only got 3 barrels of Grade D. They kept one barrel for themselves and sold the other two to farmers as pig feed because Grade D just wouldn't sell in the stores, but they knew how good it was hence the barrel they kept for themselves. And when they let us try some, I quickly found out why - because that stuff is freaking awesome. Since then, it's been regraded as Grade A - Very Dark and you see it on the shelves in some stores.

This is the wife's cousin's sugar shack we visited - and we get free syrup from him...