Peter Kuitenbrouwer

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81 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 24 Mar

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The Last Show with David Cooper · FULL EPISODE: Bell-Bottoms May Never Die - March 23, 2026 · 24 Mar 2026 podcast

So you had to switch out to aluminum buckets.

Aluminum buckets, basically, David, with a spile, you know, a sort of a tap made of a tin tube, essentially nailed into a hole in the tree with a hook on it, the hook, the bucket on, lid on it, and it drips in and then you pick it up and boil it down.

Oh, for sure.

Well, there were people in Vermont who innovated even back in the 20s, 1920s, like 100 years ago, with steel tubes to connect.

You see, the problem is, David, there's a lot of snow in the sugarbush, right?

So schlepping from tree to tree to pick up the sap is a hell of a lot of work.

And, you know, very time consuming and messy and wet.

And so if you can get a tube to run the sap from the tree to a vessel somewhere near where you need to boil it down, then you've solved a lot of your manpower challenges.

Yes, indeed.

I mean, you've got, for example, I visited when I was writing my book, Maple Syrup, I went to a producer north of Quebec City, a place called Saint-Raymond, and they had 11 mountains tapped.

So they had more than 100,000 trees, you know, feeding into their system.

So that's a heck of a lot of stuff.

And what ends up happening is that you have huge quantities of this sap.

And as your listeners, many of your listeners probably know,

Oh, I'll ask you a skill testing question, David.

How much sap do you need to make a liter of syrup?

You need 40 liters of sap to make a liter of syrup.

So you can imagine that that would become a real, for one thing, a carbon nightmare, boiling all that sap for days on end, releasing it with wood fire, for example, and releasing a lot of carbon into the atmosphere.

Not good for the environment.

So what they're using these days is called, well, first of all, you've got a suction system.

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