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That sweet time of year again
BrianS:
Yes to birch. The sugar content is lower and it just takes more.
Good friend Dino from this forum has a pretty cool small scale maple sugar making system. Maybe he will chime in with some pictures and such. I made a video about his sugar making but I do not have access to the link right now. Very interesting process
Pappy:
Ya Brian your buddy and mine Glen M. makes it from Hickory, he gave me some last time he was down to Tennessee and it is great, I think he has to add a lot of sugar though. :)
Pappy
Jakesnyder:
Do you cook it down inside fox? Ive done that before. Still trying to get the sticky junk off the vent hood.
BrianS:
Pappy,
Sugar Maple is about a 40 to 1 ratio of sap boiled down to syrup
Other Maples range about 50 to 60 to 1
Birch is around 110 to 1 (I think)
I think hickory may not use sap boiled down but may be made by boiling the bark for a hickory flavor and then adding some sort of sugar?
Dino has a measuring device he uses to find out the sugar content. The whole process is very cool but it takes a bunch of time to boil it down. He makes several gallons every year.
brian
BrianS:
Here is the video I made last year about Dino and his maple syrup making.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqNmyL-sno
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