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DIY - Making Syrup from Start to Finish

Making syrup is time intensive, but it's not complicated! In this video I'll show you everything from tapping, to boiling, finishing, and filtering. Please let me know if you have any questions! Below, is my original voiceover script, including some stuff that didn't make the final cut. Please do not copy the script and post it elsewhere. Thank you! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Making syrup is a pretty simple process and a fun way to speed up the last weeks of winter. I will say, this is a lot of work for a relatively small payoff. If you don't enjoy the process itself, the finished product might not be enough to justify all the time and effort you'll put in, but that's true of a lot of hobbies. To make syrup there are three main steps. Tap your trees, boil down the sap until it reaches 219 degrees, and filter. My friend and I decided to make syrup for the first time last year. We.only bought food grade tubing and a food thermometer. We drilled tap holes the size of the tube, stuck the tube right in the tree, and hung our collection jugs on a screw. I collected and boiled down about 7 gallons of black walnut sap over a fire. Here's the syrup before filtering.....and the same syrup after filtering. Like I said, it's a lot of work for a relatively small payoff, but the butterscotch flavor of black walnut syrup is amazing. Sugar maples yield about a gallon of syrup for every 40 gallons of sap, but the black walnuts and Norway maples that I've tapped are closer to a 50 to one ratio. For every 50 drops of sap you collect, you'll only get a only a drop of finished syrup. This year, I bought these taps which allowed me to drill smaller holes in the trees. When nighttime lows were below freezing and daytime highs started reaching the upper thirties and forties I tapped. You want to put them on the sunny side of the tree, about three feet off the ground. Whenever possible, tap above big roots or under big limbs. As you can see here, I used screws to hang the gallon jugs on the trees . Nothing fancy. My mom was a real trooper, doing daily sap collection at my parents house and then delivering the sap to my house. Thank you mom! As I dumped the jugs of sap into my coolers, I poured it through this fine mesh strainer to remove ants and other debris. I stored the coolers on the shady side of my house for about five days before boiling time . When nights were cold, I cracked open the cooler lids to chill the sap overnight , and then I closed the lids in the morning to keep the sap cold during the day. This year, I upgraded to a propane burner which I bought to boil corn and make applesauce over the summer. More on that later. However you do it, you've gotta boil down your sap to roughly 1/50th the volume you had when you started...depending on the tree species. As the sap evaporates, just keep adding more. You don't have to worry about it burning at this point, so there's no need to keep checking the temperature. Occasional, funky looking scum will find it's way to the surface...you can just skim it off. As you evaporate the water, sugar is left behind and the sap will start turning a light golden color. At that point you want to start checking the temperature more often. When my sap got to about 217 degrees, I filtered it, and brought it inside for finishing on the stove which is a little more precise than a fire or propane burner. When your syrup has reached 219 degrees, pull it off the stove. Don't panic...it might look nasty, until the next step...filtering.. I set a coffee filter in my fine mesh strainer and ran the sap through it. It'll start fast, and slow down as the sap cools and particles clog the filter. In my last batch this year, I let it filter overnight in my fridge...and that worked well. Here's the finished product. The light sap was my first round of collecting, boiling, and finishing. The darker round was the second batch. I also gave my parents a jar of syrup which isn't pictured here. So, was it worth it? I would say, yes. I really enjoyed my first batch of syrup this year , but it started to feel like work by the end of the second batch. If do this volume of sap next year, I will invest in a much bigger sap evaporating pan with greater surface area for faster evaporation and more efficient propane use. If you want to do it cheaply without sacrificing your sleep and sanity, limit your sap collection to about 10 gallons your first year. That will keep you boiling over a fire for a whole day, but you should be able to finish and filter your sap before you head to bed. Thanks for watching!