Im so grateful no time travelling is involved because I don’t have a vehicle right now. Thanks man! Very helpful ✨

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!

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.

I learned some good facts. Sounds like a lot of work! Good job! Thank you for making maple syrup. Love it with pancakes!

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.

@wisconsinfarmer4742

Жыл бұрын

how is it going this year, tapping again? propane makes it expensive.

Cool stuff sir! Thanks for a great channel and the fun education.

Very well presented…thank you very much!

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.

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.

Dude, this is awesome! Thank you so much! 🤟

Nice video, man!

Very informative. I’m in Hudson valley New York, and trying this next year. Btw your land looks very similar to mine.

Very informative 👍🏻 thank you

Hoping maybe u could pick up where this video left off last season. Great explanations so far.

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

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...

New Subscriber here. Nice video. looking forward to more

Bring in the taste test!!

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 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?

You need to make some more videos!!

Thought I was gonna have to bring the Time Machine out of the shed for a second there

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.

@burlybeaver6013

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@charlie21gunner87

2 жыл бұрын

@@burlybeaver6013 How many gallons did you do inside? I have about 20 plus gallons.

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.

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.

How did you do it in the Instant Pot?

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How many trees did you tap?

Great video, just wondering how many gallons of sap you did inside and how long it took.

@jenhofmann

Жыл бұрын

10 gallons of sap = 1 quart of syrup

@charlie21gunner87

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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??

@burlybeaver6013

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-tz5pv6ih7m

3 жыл бұрын

@@burlybeaver6013 Thank you

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?

@charlie21gunner87

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@JMJMeshel

4 ай бұрын

Maple syrup does not go bad

you also need a video for 2+2 ?!

I finished my first syrup ever yesterday. Why does it taste like vanilla extract. It's good but not what I expected

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

Can’t even have maple trees in Ohio 💀

@frsp3403

Жыл бұрын

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