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Offline Fox

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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2021, 09:23:08 pm »
I really wanted to tap some sap one year. I was going to buy the taps and I had a place to do it. Then the day before I was going to go out, the landowner (my dads work friend) decided he didn’t want me to. Wouldn’t give me a reason, but it is his land so I didn’t press him for a reason. Couldn’t find another place to do it lol.

I am going to do it this spring. No way am i not. I can drive now  ;D ;D

You should!
I have taped downtown... usually not too hard to find sugar maple..... also you can make taps out of bamboo or elderberry really easily if you don’t want to buy metal/plastic ones...
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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2021, 09:29:52 pm »
You can tap sycamores, and hickory, and birch, and black walnut as well.... there not 40 to 1 like sugar maple, maybe more like 60 to 1, but they’ll all have different flavors. Apparently sycamore tastes like caramel :)


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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2021, 11:55:28 pm »
the first pint ... yum  :)

those granular things in the bottom are called sugar sand... I accidentally burnt it a little which caused it I believe... doesn't hurt it  :)


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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2021, 12:08:23 am »
can you use the sugar sand like normal sugar? how does it taste! i can imagine it now... maple syrup sugar cake....  -C- ;D
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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2021, 12:28:36 am »
Yes deerhunter... it’s kinda like when raw honey gets granular..... it tasted real good  :)


Yes a maple sugar cake would be amazing  ;D
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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2021, 10:38:21 am »
As a kid my father made all kinds of wines, biers and hooch.

We made lots of old time yankee Black Birch Beer. Not the soda but the kine with a punch. When it went from warm to cold phase the carbonization bubbles were small in it. Not as small as champagne but purty small.

I liked it. Never saw Or knew anyone else who made the stuff. My father made lots of beers and he said he made the Birch beer from memory of what it was like when he was a kid.

Use to always have a twig of black birch hanging from my lip while bow hunting.

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Re: That sweet time of year again
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2021, 10:24:48 pm »
Nice story's there HH. Never do I pass up a birch tree without stealing a twig  ;)
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