This Is How To Make Maple Syrup In Your Backyard
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2021
- How to make Maple Syrup In your Backyard - Glen And Friends Cooking
Making Maple syrup in your own backyard is fun, and we get some amazing Home made Maple Syrup at the end of the process. Can any Maple tree make Maple syrup? Yes - almost all of the Maples will produce a sap with enough sugar to make syrup; we tap Norway maples for maple syrup and they work out just fine. Other trees that you can tap for syrup are Birch, Walnut, Butternut, Cherry and many more.
How to make Maple Syrup:
You need trees that are at least 30 cm in diameter; If the tree is 30 to 45 cm in diameter it will take 1 tap. If the tree is 48 to 63 cm in diameter it will take 2 taps. If the tree is above 65 cm in diameter it will take 3 taps.
You need around 45 Litres of sap to produce 1L of maple syrup, and each tap will yield around 1L of syrup per season. This of course depends on the weather and the health of the tree.
The 'correct' density for maple syrup is between 65° and 68° Brix, but some local jurisdictions have strict maple syrup laws requiring a narrower range of brix to be called Maple Syrup. If you are making maple syrup just for yourself, the laws don't matter much - just hit that 65º to 68º Brix range for Maple syrup.
Our 2021 Maple Syrup Results:
We tapped 5 Norway Maples; with one tap in each tree.
First 'half' of the season yielded 66L of sap that boiled down to 1.5L syrup
Second 'half' of the season yielded 90L sap that boiled down to 1.75L syrup.
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Thanks for watching Everyone! *Do you tap your trees? Do you think you might try next year?*
I'll try as soon as I get some mature enough trees in my yard, unfortunately it will be a couple of years
I don't have any suitable trees here in Florida. Not that they don't exist, just not in my yard.
Preeeeeeeeeeetty sure tapping that ironbark in the front yard, boiling down the sap, and consuming it would kill me, and, worse, ruin a perfectly good saucepan.
I did years ago and it was he best Maple syrup I ever had. If you can find a Yellow Birch for tapping you will get the most awesome wintergreen flavoured syrup. It can cure a headache too!
Southern BC here - thank you maple syrup producers of Canada!
Look, you don't have to do this for us. We never doubted you're Canadian.
Next up, Glen plays hockey while being viciously attacked by a Canada goose.
Those Geese can be vicious when you're playing pond hockey on their territory!
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking The beavers spring forth from their dams to defend you, but, right? That's how it works up there, isn't it?
“If you’ve got a problem with Canadian gooses, you’ve got a problem with me. And I suggest you let that marinate.”
@@hoilst As a Canadian I can tell you with certainty the beavers are not on our side either.
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking I live in the Chicago area and about 15 years ago one of my neighbors had a pet Canadian Goose. When the gosling hatched he imprinted on the kids at the house. They had a large pond and yard. He was majestic. He followed the kids around constantly. He was also friends with a neighbors dog and he would walk down the street to visit. His name was Harley and he was beautiful. I miss him.
This is the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen.
My whole neighborhood in suburban Wisconsin has dozens of families tapping their trees for sap.
I've never been so jealous of canadians
Take off Eh?
I had this exact thought.
Not so Canadian. My cousins in Michigan did this.
When Glen was making maple syrup in the back yard strangers gathered outside his house singing "Oh Canada".
It's "O Canada."
yup...that moment when you could see glen's eyes light up and the transformative joy saturate him completely igniting the joy dance! THAT is what it's all about! well done! i will admit...i have syrup envy...yum-e!
As a Canadian living overseas, it's moments like this that remind me my roots.
_Roots_ 🌳
"You can't control the weather - it's a natural product" - I love that phrase.
We still yearly collect birch tree sap here in Russia!
Birch sap is amazing! I collected it for the 1st time last year in the uk and just started again this year!
@@jay71512 I heard it's minty, is this true?
@@mat5473 not the one we collected. Its just tastes like sweet water. Were going to boil some into a syrup this year tho hopefully. Maybe it goes minty then??! Edit... its obvious its not sugar water it has a nice taste but very mellow and hard to explain.
@@mat5473 a common way would be to serve it with a sprig of mint, but I haven't had birchsap itself taste minty
My sister does too
I like how you step back and out of the way to give Julie the room that she needs because she talks with her hands. Seriously I just think it's sweet.
Well this makes me miss home. Moved out to NS from Ont and my friends family tapped about 200 trees every year. I miss everything about making maple syrup and its so hard to find a place to buy the super dark end of season syrup that I like the most.
Their family has a book going back at least 100 years that tracked the start and end of the syrup season and how deep the snow pack was. It is fucking terrifying how much it has changed in the last 40 years.
How has it changed?
I can imagine @alex bob that the start date has gotten earlier with more variation of temperatures during the season?
"I don't have any special equipment, I'm just using a giant stockpot over a propane burner" 🤣
I've been harvesting syrup from Box Elder ( Manitoba Maple) trees in my back yard for 3 years now. The syrup is generally more watery than other Maple trees but still is a nice treat on pancakes. I've even substituted it for sugar in beer brewing kits.
How does it taste @contradoublebassman? Always figured it would taste a little bitter like it's sap. Manitoba maples grow like weeds and there are plenty of them around for tapping.
I can always tell when our maple's sap starts running by the squirrels and chickadees licking/pecking the tree. I did not know you could get syrup from any other trees thanks for the fascinating video.
Well I'm fascinated by the idea of trying the syrups of other trees now. How would cherry tree syrup or walnut tree syrup compare in flavor to maple?
Only our Canadian "Maple Trees" produce the most reknown best tasting, highest quality "Worlds Best Canadian Maple Syrup" no where to be matched! And this is not something new as some will think, because we've been making it for generations galore producing this golden delight! But don't be mistaken, like Glen mentioned, yes you can make it even from Apple Trees or any "fruit trees" and I've even tried "Birch Syrup" for example, it's okay.....BUT.....a far far FAR cry from real Canadian Maple Syrup.
The question I wonder is what trees produce enough non-toxic sugary sap to be able to make syrup? I mean I know one plant that is the world's biggest crop of plant juice - sugar cane, but besides that, or agave.
Well at least here in Lithuania birches are tapped traditionally, but their sap is used as drink (either fresh or fermented), not concentrated into syrup/sugar.
@@TheMimiSard you can squeeze and boil sorghum to make a syrup, it's apparently popular with the amish and mennonites
@@Johnny_Guitar The reason is actually that sugar maple sap contains the most sugar, and therefore is the easiest to make syrup of. Birch syrup is actually known to have a more complex flavor than maple syrup
Look at 12:50 that true and pure joy, that put a smile on my face.
I've checked and decent "maple syrup" goes for 25 USD per liter in Czechia and the stuff from Canada is 50 USD/l.
It's a rare treat for me but I might try some birch syrup next year. We've got so many unwanted birch trees around here that it might be a decent experiment. I wouldn't dare to tap nice and stately maples because that wouldn't be wise under our legislation and I have only few fruit trees on my garden but birch is a weed around here.
Did you try tapping the birch trees?
If Glen is breakdancing, you know it’s good. Just need some techno when that happens lol
My mom did this when I was young, and as I grew I learned the trade.... Take the sugar sand and make Maple candy... mmmmmmmm
I saw one video where people tapped birch trees not to boil it down but to keep it as just birch water and drink it as is as a replacement for drinking soda or something
Very Canadian, using Celsius for weather temperatures and Fahrenheit for cooking temperatures. This episode takes me back to making syrup from our maples when I was 11.
I'm sorry, there's very little more wholesome than watching a Canadian make syrup lol 😂
Especially when they're nerds and crunch the numbers
Hey Glen. You should put the big bucket on the ground under the drip so when you take off the small bucket you still catch the drips.
Glenn must be an easy mark in a poker game .... the "jig of glee" always gives him away....
Birch trees were tapped for sap by the First Nations and early Ukrainian settlers in Western Canada. It's really cool that you have trees you can tap in your backyard. Cheers!
They still make birch syrup in Scandinavia.
@@kiltymacbagpipe yeah, there's a Swedish company that makes a sparkling wine from birch sap. Simply called Sav (sap in swedish).
There are a couple of small companies in BC who got into making birch syrup.
12:50 Completely opposite reaction when compared with yesterday's not-so-good drink reaction. Glad this one was a winner.
Ha I looked it up and sugar maples are 40:1 so you did a great job given the trees
40:1 is average for the "Acer saccharum", but some trees vary a little bit.
Years ago, an old farmer in my area had one lone sugar maple that was tested & verified by the state agriculture department to be producing sap that was 14:1 (7.14% sugar instead of the normal 2.5%!)
This was so exciting to watch, even from a mediterranean country where a liter of maple syrup costs 1/7th of minimum wage.
I live in northeast Ohio and in early March we went on the maple syrup tour. We went to about 10 different sap houses and we loved it so much. I think we bought about 7 bottles of maple syrup that day. Some day I hope to have some property out here to tap sugar maples.
That’s a great video for an Australian to learn about Canada. Thanks Glenn.
Seriously Glen I'm loving your channel so much. The way you explain stuff is so much better for us home cooks to learn. Thanks so much for all the hard work you do.
I missed tapping my tree this year, and now I'm regretting it... This one looks really good!
Gosh, I thought boiling the sap inside would take the wallpaper off, and thus why there are those little houses. Learned something new again. Thanks!
This looks easier than I thought it would be!
The pure joy ! How happy he was at the success. Made me smile.
Good job!
I look at the eucalyptus tree in my backyard and think "nah".
That was a great episode! Glen was so pumped. Jubilant!
Love the joy dance! 😂
I get a kick thinking about Glen setting up the camera outside, going inside, then opening the door to walk out and say "Hello friends!"
And here we see the Glen in its natural habitat, performing its Glen-dance.
I'm convinced that Glenn has to have some kind of Bruce Wayne underground lair in order to store all that sap and supplies.
Check out his beer brewing video. He totally does. It's a sweet setup.
To the Glenn cave...
A family tradition every spring was to go to an annual " Pancake Breakfast with Maple Syrup " to kick off the season. As a Canadian this brings a smile to my face and I really enjoyed watching you go through the process. Thanks so much !
We tapped our trees for the fist time this year and am just getting sap. So happy.
The entire time I kept thinking, "When is Glen going to break and say 'April Fools' " and it never happened. I was thoroughly convinced that he was just boiling water with brown sugar in it for coloring.
So you still got fooled
@@lutze5086 I did indeed.
I think Canadians celebrate April Fools day on the 4th.
I really like the way yous two say the word "process". I will start using it that way, here in Philadelphia.
As an Aussie, I didn't expect you to get even that much from four or five trees. Most everything I've been taught about maple syrups is that you need like a thousand trees to make this amount.
Good to know another Aussie is sleep deprived and watching this lol
I was hoping for "as an Aussie, our trees only produce venom", or something along those lines :)
@@usmcplu Well eucalyptus oil is toxic...
@@arrgghh1555 but it smells so good
We went to a sugar shack last weekend and I convinced myself I was doing this next year (we live in New Hampshire)! We only have one maple tree so I'm not sure how much we will get but I love making stuff and I love maple syrup! 😁
Thank you for tapping maple trees in your yard. The only thing that would make me happier? If you had a cheese-making operation somewhere on your property. ❤️
That is beautiful syrup! When we order maple syrup, I always go for the darkest. I know at one time that was supposed to make for a lesser syrup, but I’ve always loved the deep flavor. Now it is in vogue. Yours looks delicious and being able to maple in the burbs is yet another reason we wish we lived in Canada.
Still lovin’ the Glenn Happy Dance 👏
HI Glen, fun video. I live near Elmira, ON. Lots of sap flowing here. A fun fact. Many of the commercial syrup places here actually run the sap through reverse osmosis to remove ~70% of the water before boiling it down further. While RO is still quite energy intensive it's better than boiling it all the way and it works quite a bit faster too.
I wonder if they could do something like what applejack producers used to do, or if they’d get enough separation ...?
I have heard that some places use a process to concentrate the syrup by partially freezing then scraping off the ice crystals that form. Looks like tasty syrup!
That and / or reverse osmosis.
Glen’s joy dance, great to see 👍
and here i thought this was a april fools joke
Canadians don't joke around about maple syrup.
I’m thrilled for you both! Your enthusiasm is infectious!
This is SO awesome! I never knew this was how it was done!
Fascinating!
Classic Canada. Celsius to talk about weather, Fahrenheit when boiling sugar.
>>puts making maple syrup on her list of things to do
We made 2 gallons + 1 pint this year. We collect from about ten trees and store the sap in a drum in a snowbank. We boiled in three batches. The first and third batch turned out dark red. Let's see if RUclips will allow me to link to an image... i.imgur.com/73Nx4D7.png
Love how excited you guys got over this. Definitely going to tap my tree.
That was a good video. Thank you Glenn!✌️
Hey Glen, you could cut your cost on propane by getting it at Costco by a third, also the time frame of when it is too late is governed by longitude not the time of year, i.e. Huntsville and above still flowing like a river. Thanks for showing the ins and out of producing the great Canadian tradition to those no part of the club.
I love to see Glen get excited and do his happy dance!! Go Glen!!!
Wow, that was neat to see ! Great Job & I'm sure that it tasted incredible ... Thanks for sharing ! : )
I’m on my second maple sugaring season in New Jersey at this scale. It’s fun. Thanks for posting.
Great image, back yard, living life.
Glen your channel is a goldmine of knowledge
My husband and I tap maples here in Nova Scotia. I started many years ago when I had dozens of sugar maples on my property. I did not like maple syrup until I made my own. It might taste the same as boughten syrup but just the thought of doing it myself was exciting enough to make me love it. Where we live now, we don't have sugar maples but it is so satisfying to create our own product. We do the evaporation outside on a wood burning fire pit and we use a huge lobster pot for the sap because we have 40 trees tapped, so a large pot is necessary. I am finishing off some evaporation today on our indoor wood burning stove.
Fascinating stuff, thank you!
Thanks for video :) So cool to see how it's actually done!
Thank you for showing this. Many years ago I was in Connecticut on business, A very nice co-worker invited me to visit her father's farm where they were processing sap into maple syrup. They had been collecting sap from the trees around the campus where I was working. I watch them boil sap in a very large stainless steel vat over a wood fire. They had been collecting sap from the trees around the campus where I was working. It is a moment in time that I still treasure. That time made maple syrup something of a magic potion to me. I feel your joy.
Thanks for sharing!
I have the fondest memories of collecting sap after school as a rural kid along the fence lines. It was my "job" to collect and boil down in a tub over a fire until past bedtime. As a family we'd finish it in the kitchen. It was the best maple syrup I remember, dark and slightly smoky. Thanks Glen for the journey.
This is way cool. Tapping your own trees is so neat.
This was so great!
At least we have a huge birch tree in our back yard. Some 40yrs ago I made wine. From sorts of fruit. Never used birch. Might be another option.
Greetings from the far north of Germany!
My first batch had a nutty flavor and my second batch was even better 👍🏻 so good 😊
I've always wanted to see maple 🍁syrup made. Thank you
Hey, just gotta say, you guys are a pleasure to watch.
Glen's joy has our family interested in taking on the project of tapping next year.
You guys are so beautiful souls !!
Pretty mad I didnt get THIS experience. I grew up in Missouri, 4 trees in my yard were silver maples. I never knew! I moved up north east, met my wife, and we sell maple syrup year round and its fun, but we have acres and acres so we use a vacuum system. Fun!
I just got done my sap season last weekend. Ended up with just over 3 gallons of syrup. I started about 14 yrs ago with 5 taps and a turkey boiler, now up to about 40 taps and a 24"x42" pan on a fire. Had to go larger because my daughter wanted to give out syrup at her wedding 4 yrs ago. My 3 yr old grandson loves to help and really enjoys it on his pancakes! Keep the great vids coming, stay safe and Happy Easter weekend to you both!
Great video , great method, thanks again
As an Australian I had no idea of what needs to happen, I love maple syrup and now have a better understanding, great video Glen and Julie 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🦘PS enjoy your sugar rush
If people try this next year, especially if they use other types of trees, it'd be fascinating to hear about the different flavors
Thank you, Glen (and Jules!) for the video! I have a Majestic Maple in my back yard, and I process Maple Syrple almost *exactly* the same way you do! A turkey deep-fryer, a lawn chair and a book! A few years ago, I too, had an "unwatched pot" disaster! This year hasn't been as productive as previous for me - my tree (14 feet in circumference) gave me 9.5 litres so far, and I'm just now (today!) boiling down the last 5 gallons of sap. While I don't have the sophisticated measuring devices that you do, I use the Old Native North American method, that watching the foam indicates readiness. The batch has to foam up, twice, with little tiny bubbles, like when you pour a Guinness... then it's ready for final filtering and bottling. I use half litre Mason jars... many have disappeared already to the kids and grandkids. LOL! It's great in my morning coffee, too!!
My wife and I both love your videos! Please stay well and Happy Spring!!
this is so awesome, i had no idea how particular making syrup could be, you guys are rad
Love your happy dance :)
Loved this........... I have no trees, but I do have dreams. That will get me through.
👍 Danke fürs Hochladen!
👍 Thanks for uploading!
👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you!
👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!
We've reached peak Canadian 📈🍁
Correction!
It's: *_'Canadiana'_*
U.K. subscriber here - totes greeeeen with envy!! 😳😆 Thanks for sharing Glen - utterly fascinating! 😁
😃 Well,I remember reading stories as a young kid that mentioned boiling sap for Maple Syrup. I always wanted to live that but, alas, I’m a California native. Thanks for this mental vacation. I enjoyed it. 👍😊🍁
It’s an amazing process. I made maple syrup for the first time this year and it’s funny how accomplished I felt in doing it.
Thanks for sharing.
☮️🍁-Kirsten
Enjoyed the Glenn joy dance.
Years ago, here in the midwestern US my dad and I made maple syrup for our own use. Fond memories, I still have some buckets and taps.
I'd *LOVE* to see you make *Maple Crème Brûlée!!!* so I can make it the same way you do!!
Glenn I enjoyed watching you doing your maple syrup I love maple syrup I live in New Zealand my grandmother always made beautiful pancakes and we always had maple syrup as my grandfather was brought up in Canada I really love you show Abbey good to Seymour take care my friend😊
Cool! I can't wait to have a backyard so I can do this too. :)
Awesome video as always Glen
Wow! I would love to be in a position to be able to taste test Maple syrup. Here in Alberta, we just enjoy the maple syrup from the east. Thanks Glen and Julie.
Spent a lot of time in a sugar camp in Ohio. The last time I did, we had so much sap we had to run 24 hrs a day. A friend of mine and I pulled the midnight to 8 am shift. I showed him a trick that my grandfather taught me. Our system used a large pan with dividers such that w had sap running into the first pan and it got more concentrated as it progressed through the baffles. The we dipped from the last section into a finishing pan. Anyway, the trick was to take eggs and cook them in the second or third section. The shells always cracked from the heat and the rolling boil so you had maple flavored hard boiled eggs. Yum! There were a couple of shag bark hickory trees in that woods and the old timers had us tap them as well.
Love reading youtube comments like yours...Americans aren't as nuts as our leaders and media would have us think. I grew up in New Hampshire...metal pails on the trees; steaming maple sugar houses. Never knew that anything other than a sugar maple would yield the coveted sap. My dad used to talk about the Hurricane of 1938 which wiped out a high percentage the sugar maple groves. Always a jug of the stuff in the fridge.