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Containers

By: uvmext

Plastic, Glass, or Tin: Which is Best? Maple syrup is packed in a variety of retail containers. Glass allows the color and clarity of maple syrup to clearly show. A wide range of designs available. Best for maintaining flavor of syrup. Plastic bes...

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Sanitation

By: uvmext

Like people, plants have strong mechanisms to prevent the spread of microorganisms within their tissues. Trees are capable of "walling off" wounds to prevent infections from spreading throughout the tree. This healing process also slows, and event...

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Syrup Clarity

By: uvmext

Syrup clarity is one of the four basics of grading. Syrup that come right off the evaporator is cloudy. Most of the cloudiness found in unfiltered syrup is naturally occurring minerals such as calcium also known as sugar sand or niter. Syrup clari...

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Tubing

By: uvmext

Although sap is still collected by some maple producers in buckets or plastic bags, the majority of maple sap is currently collected using plastic spouts and a network of tubing lines. The standard tubing used for the lines that run from tree to t...

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Adam and Bushell, SQF practitioner at NPC Processing, Shelburne, VT

By: uvmext

Adam and Bushell, SQF practitioner at NPC Processing, Shelburne, VT

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Introduction to Malts and Traits a Farmer Would Desire

By: tpritcha

This is an introduction to malts including the characteristics of raw barley as well as the traits that a farmer would be looking for in the barley they planted and harvested.

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Nutrient Forms: Barley vs Yeast Desired

By: tpritcha

This video identifies the form the CHO and Proteins are in within the barley kernel and then what the form is that the yeast need. Diastatic Power is introduced.

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Preparation, Steeping and Introduction to Germination

By: tpritcha

This is a discussion of evaluation/preparation of the malts, the steeping process and an introduction to the germination chambers which will be used.