Thanks for these three videos! My high school class is going to be tapping a maple we have on our school grounds, and these videos are great for helping the kids understand identifying the tree and tapping the tree!
Thank you so much! I am in VA and I have some sugar maples on the property. I would love to do my own syrup but couldn’t get definitive details on how possible it would be with my temps and a small amount of trees. This gives me some hope and I am so excited to try this next year!
This was great! Thank you! I made a brick oven and with fire wood outside and two stainless steel pans, I cooked the sap down. The pans held five gallons of sap and the process went quickly. I then took the boiled off version inside to the stove. Thanks for helping me understand the gauges and filters used. It's a fun thing to do. I gave many away as gifts.
Thank You!! I'm starting out experimenting w small batch maple syrup this year. I was wondering about boiling down in a crock pot. Now I know to not bother (at least this time around). Your video is excellent.
Wow! You did an excellent job explaining this complicated process. My Amish neighbors tap my maples. I’m thinking about holding a tree or two out so I can try it. I have a large propane cooker I would start with then finish off on the stove. Thank you for the instruction.
It takes days of sap gathering or hours of plastic line collection and boiling 5 or 6 hours to get the maple syrup. After that , bottling and labeling is the final process.
People are now using tubes between each tree to a collection location then come and picks up with larger collections buckets or run to a tank near the place of boiling sap down to Maple sugar
Here in Charlotte, we don't have sugar maples, so I tapped my silver maples. We also only have one or two days a year (8B/9A) when the sap will actually run, so it limited me considerably. I ended up with 1.5 gallons of sap, which I am boiling down as I type, on a Coleman camping cook stove, and will do the entire process outside. On a camping burner, I can get the same control outside, as I would inside, without any evaporated sticky residue.
I made 4 gallons this spring double last years. I had 30 taps out and got 180 gallons of sap, so about 43.75 gallons of sap for a gallon of maple suype.
Beaver it's been a while since you have put out a video, hope all is well? I have a large farm, old plantation with many types of exotic trees, I like all the different firewood specie reviews you do, helps me decide on different trees to keep for firewood.
Hey Wes - thanks for the note. I’m good, just been swamped recently and haven’t gotten to record any new videos recently. I enjoy making them though and hope to do some more. Cheers.
Hi there. Great job!! You explained the whole process without a bunch of editing and pictures in our faces! I love it. If you are still answering comments on this vid, please help. I’m a small syrup maker on Cape Cod, I just make it for myself for the past 7 years or so. Most people think we can’t get sap or make syrup unless we live in Vermont, but that’s just not true. We can! and we do!! Right? 🙌🏼 Anyway, my issue is… I want to bottle the syrup while it is hot, but the filtering process cools the syrup down too much and i have to heat it up again. This causes a viscous cycle for me! Help! I heard you say, bottle it at at least 185 so maybe I’m worrying about it too much and thinking I have to bottle it hotter than I do? I’ll measure the temp when bottling this time. The 2nd issue is, the filters. I have the nice thick real wool filter and I love it, but I read that we can only use it for a couple of years. Do you know if this is true? I’d sure hate to throw away that expensive, nice wool filter and have to buy a new one! But if I have to, I have to. Please let me know what you found out about that and where you would order them. Thanks for the video. I needed some brushing up on things before I boil it down this week. We have a shorter season than you do as you are further north. I should have done this a few weeks ago but… I just won’t get as much sap this year. Thanks again.
Hi! Would you mind sharing where you bought your filters? I haven't filtered mine the past 2 years, but do feel like the sand can give the syrup a bit of a different flavor and would like to try filtering this year...
Great video so far but you might want to tell people if they don’t have sugar maples in The using red maple or swamp people that they gonna be looking at 80 to 100 gallons to make one. The 40 to 1 is best case scenario. Thanks
@@jenhofmann makes sense, I wound up with about a gallon or so of syrup. Awesome stuff, I was surprised that it didn't taste much like store bought stuff. More of a vanilla/caramel flavor.
I was out of town when some of my sap was collected. I got above 45 degrees for a few days and it got a little foggy. Will it process OK and not be a health risk?
I believe the sap is edible (I drank some, it tastes like sugar water). Although, I did boil it and let it cool again before drinking it, just to be on the safe side to avoid any bacteria. I’m not an expert on the sap part though, so this is probably worth double checking.
So kind of a silly question.we were cleaning down in the basement recently and I found a bunch of bottles plastic maple bottles that were from a couple years ago. Are they still good or should I read boil it? Or throw it away. Thanks Fred
What? I really dont understand that. Where are you? I'm in Geauga county. Just came from one of the dozens of pancake breakfasts that only happen because it's syrup season.
Thank you! For hitting ALL steps
Thanks for these three videos! My high school class is going to be tapping a maple we have on our school grounds, and these videos are great for helping the kids understand identifying the tree and tapping the tree!
Im so grateful no time travelling is involved because I don’t have a vehicle right now. Thanks man! Very helpful ✨
I learned some good facts. Sounds like a lot of work! Good job! Thank you for making maple syrup. Love it with pancakes!
Cool stuff sir! Thanks for a great channel and the fun education.
Thank you so much! I am in VA and I have some sugar maples on the property. I would love to do my own syrup but couldn’t get definitive details on how possible it would be with my temps and a small amount of trees. This gives me some hope and I am so excited to try this next year!
Very well presented…thank you very much!
This was great! Thank you! I made a brick oven and with fire wood outside and two stainless steel pans, I cooked the sap down. The pans held five gallons of sap and the process went quickly. I then took the boiled off version inside to the stove. Thanks for helping me understand the gauges and filters used. It's a fun thing to do. I gave many away as gifts.
Thank You!! I'm starting out experimenting w small batch maple syrup this year. I was wondering about boiling down in a crock pot. Now I know to not bother (at least this time around). Your video is excellent.
Wow! You did an excellent job explaining this complicated process. My Amish neighbors tap my maples. I’m thinking about holding a tree or two out so I can try it. I have a large propane cooker I would start with then finish off on the stove. Thank you for the instruction.
how is it going this year, tapping again?
propane makes it expensive.
Dude, this is awesome! Thank you so much! 🤟
It takes days of sap gathering or hours of plastic line collection and boiling 5 or 6 hours to get the maple syrup. After that , bottling and labeling is the final process.
Very informative 👍🏻 thank you
Very informative. I’m in Hudson valley New York, and trying this next year. Btw your land looks very similar to mine.
Nice video, man!
New Subscriber here. Nice video. looking forward to more
People are now using tubes between each tree to a collection location then come and picks up with larger collections buckets or run to a tank near the place of boiling sap down to Maple sugar
Here in Charlotte, we don't have sugar maples, so I tapped my silver maples. We also only have one or two days a year (8B/9A) when the sap will actually run, so it limited me considerably. I ended up with 1.5 gallons of sap, which I am boiling down as I type, on a Coleman camping cook stove, and will do the entire process outside. On a camping burner, I can get the same control outside, as I would inside, without any evaporated sticky residue.
Hoping maybe u could pick up where this video left off last season. Great explanations so far.
I'd highly recommend downloading the picture this app which identifies trees pretty accurately with your phone.
I made 4 gallons this spring double last years. I had 30 taps out and got 180 gallons of sap, so about 43.75 gallons of sap for a gallon of maple suype.
Bring in the taste test!!
Beaver it's been a while since you have put out a video, hope all is well? I have a large farm, old plantation with many types of exotic trees, I like all the different firewood specie reviews you do, helps me decide on different trees to keep for firewood.
Hey Wes - thanks for the note. I’m good, just been swamped recently and haven’t gotten to record any new videos recently. I enjoy making them though and hope to do some more. Cheers.
@@burlybeaver6013 How many gallons did you do inside? I have about 20 plus gallons.
Thought I was gonna have to bring the Time Machine out of the shed for a second there
You need to make some more videos!!
Hi there. Great job!! You explained the whole process without a bunch of editing and pictures in our faces! I love it.
If you are still answering comments on this vid, please help. I’m a small syrup maker on Cape Cod, I just make it for myself for the past 7 years or so. Most people think we can’t get sap or make syrup unless we live in Vermont, but that’s just not true. We can! and we do!! Right? 🙌🏼
Anyway, my issue is… I want to bottle the syrup while it is hot, but the filtering process cools the syrup down too much and i have to heat it up again. This causes a viscous cycle for me! Help!
I heard you say, bottle it at at least 185 so maybe I’m worrying about it too much and thinking I have to bottle it hotter than I do? I’ll measure the temp when bottling this time.
The 2nd issue is, the filters. I have the nice thick real wool filter and I love it, but I read that we can only use it for a couple of years. Do you know if this is true? I’d sure hate to throw away that expensive, nice wool filter and have to buy a new one! But if I have to, I have to. Please let me know what you found out about that and where you would order them.
Thanks for the video. I needed some brushing up on things before I boil it down this week. We have a shorter season than you do as you are further north. I should have done this a few weeks ago but… I just won’t get as much sap this year.
Thanks again.
Hi! Would you mind sharing where you bought your filters? I haven't filtered mine the past 2 years, but do feel like the sand can give the syrup a bit of a different flavor and would like to try filtering this year...
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I have two thermometers, but they seem to not be accurate at all. I think the hydrometer is the way to go. Do you have a link to one?
How did you do it in the Instant Pot?
Great video so far but you might want to tell people if they don’t have sugar maples in The using red maple or swamp people that they gonna be looking at 80 to 100 gallons to make one. The 40 to 1 is best case scenario.
Thanks
you also need a video for 2+2 ?!
How many trees did you tap?
Great video, just wondering how many gallons of sap you did inside and how long it took.
10 gallons of sap = 1 quart of syrup
@@jenhofmann makes sense, I wound up with about a gallon or so of syrup. Awesome stuff, I was surprised that it didn't taste much like store bought stuff. More of a vanilla/caramel flavor.
I was out of town when some of my sap was collected. I got above 45 degrees for a few days and it got a little foggy. Will it process OK and not be a health risk?
You can keep it for up to a week, if it starts to go real cloudy then it could be going bad. I have seen it for better than a week and be ok.
For my 'survival' file does the syrup have to be boiled down or is the clear sap you first took out of the tree edible??
I believe the sap is edible (I drank some, it tastes like sugar water). Although, I did boil it and let it cool again before drinking it, just to be on the safe side to avoid any bacteria. I’m not an expert on the sap part though, so this is probably worth double checking.
@@burlybeaver6013 Thank you
So kind of a silly question.we were cleaning down in the basement recently and I found a bunch of bottles plastic maple bottles that were from a couple years ago. Are they still good or should I read boil it? Or throw it away.
Thanks
Fred
Maple syrup does not go bad
I finished my first syrup ever yesterday. Why does it taste like vanilla extract. It's good but not what I expected
Can’t even have maple trees in Ohio 💀
What? I really dont understand that. Where are you? I'm in Geauga county. Just came from one of the dozens of pancake breakfasts that only happen because it's syrup season.
Maple syrup products are not easy to make