Maple Syrup

DFT1080

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Is anyone else tapping da trees? I only put out a handful of taps this season. Can't be haulin too much sap with an injured back. Here in Central New York ("upstate" to some d-bags) the sap has been flowin for about a week or little bit longer. Temperatures have been prime, it might me hitting a little high in the daytime this upcoming week. Any word from elsewhere - Vermont? Canada? other New Yorkers?
 
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People from Vermont dink it.

About 60% of a Canadians blood is made up of maple syrup.

And it tastes delicious on pancakes.
 
i wish i still helped with that shit... i see them all over town but i have nothing to do with them anymore.
 
yea, i have like 15 trees, i think i might start today if i dont snowboard (lol) im just too lazy
 
people make beer with sap instead of water. and mixing half-done syrup with rum or something is damned tasty.

myself we have a sugar bush, not that big of one, just a couple hundred taps. but it's sick as hell. over the summer my dad built a sauna attached to the sugar shack and so we funnel the steam from the evaporators into the sauna and it's the most amazing thing in the world
 
Here are the pics, couldnt take any from inside really cus of the steam. But it's honestly the most amazing thing in the world. almost

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my aunt and unlce who live just outside of payson vt ( you can ski there prop down to mad river glen) have a small time syrup op going on... ITS TOO GOOD> they send us about half gallon a year. amazing stuff
 
My buddy Drew was telling me about a native Montana tree that you can tap for syrup, its a relative of maple trees. Supposedly the sap makes a semi sweet bitter syrup but is delicious when mixed with maple. I really want to do further research and tap some trees this spring.
 
i was a lumberjack for halloween and by the end of the night my bottle of maple syrup had been mixed with almost every alcohol that we were drinking. I can attest that the next morning my head was hurting bad
 
sorry for the double post. but it seems like you need tons of sap to actually make syrup. sounds a bit complicated
 
Ya I was excited about doing too until I saw that. 99 gallons of sap for 1 gallon syrup... Seriously why dont the round up to 100?
 
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