Maple syrup

[9x56MS]

Tapped 9 maple trees at my hunting cabin as my grandaughter wanted some maple syrup. Have made 3 quarts so far and the sap is running well this weekend.

 

[9x56MS]

Yesterday’s sap after finish boil. It is getting darker. On the downhill side of the run now.

 

[Turkey Creek]

I really want to try and tap some walnuts in the future. I heard it is better than maple and I have enough walnuts to give it a try. Weather is so unpredictable here that I feel like trying to get the right highs and lows would be a real crap shoot.

 

[catscratch]

Here ya go Turkey. Tapped a walnut a few weeks ago. Have sap in the fridge. Takes 60 gallons to make 1 gallon. An issue we have is storage until you cook it down. Up north they fill totes up with sap and throw it in a snowbank. Down here we have to keep it from spoiling other ways. I don't have room for 100 gallons of sap in my beer fridge.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Have you made walnut syrup before? If so did you like the taste.... I guess if you have you must have liked it or you wouldn't be doing it again! LOL We have a good number of walnuts on our land and the neighbors do as well. I am sure I have enough trees to make 60 gallons of sap in short order if I had the equipment and the time.

 

[catscratch]

Have you made walnut syrup before? If so did you like the taste.... I guess if you have you must have liked it or you wouldn't be doing it again! LOL We have a good number of walnuts on our land and the neighbors do as well. I am sure I have enough trees to make 60 gallons of sap in short order if I had the equipment and the time.

This is a first try for me. Never tasted it before.

 

[Jerry-B-WI]

Here ya go Turkey. Tapped a walnut a few weeks ago. Have sap in the fridge. Takes 60 gallons to make 1 gallon. An issue we have is storage until you cook it down. Up north they fill totes up with sap and throw it in a snowbank. Down here we have to keep it from spoiling other ways. I don't have room for 100 gallons of sap in my beer fridge.
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I bet if you got the beer out you'd have room. But I'd never ask anyone to go that far.