Making Black Walnut Syrup
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- Опубликовано: 11 мар 2023
- This year my wife and I are focusing our syruping efforts on making Black Walnut syrup. Since many of our friends give us odd looks when we tell them that's what we've been doing, I thought it would be a good time to show what it looks like and how it's different from making Maple syrup.
Sad that I am only just now discovering this video at the beginning of March. After watching this video I did some research and it appears that the best time for tapping black walnuts is when daytime temps are in the 40s. For me in my part of middle Tennessee, this would be late December until early February. Guess I got time to do more research and buy supplies 😆
Cool! We have 2 huge black walnuts here in Arkansas but no maples. Glad to know we can tap ours for a homeschooling project!
🕊🤘🕊 thx , great video!
I want to order a few sap taps so I can make black walnut syrup. I've been hoping to do it for like two years.
You didn’t tell us how long you boil it?
How many gallons of sap does it take to make a gallon of syrup?
I collected about 55 gals of black walnut sap this year making about a gallon of syrup.
My syrup is very runny although it tastes good-yours looked awesome. Any suggestions?
In previous years we have had that same problem, but this year the consistency is perfect. Thermometers can be off in their calibration (check it in boiling water), only within a degree or so of accuracy (unless you get an expensive one), and boiling point changes based on elevation, so you may have some math to do to figure out the perfect syrup temperature for your batch. For those reasons, we now only use one to know when we're getting close to the end of the process. This year we bought a honey refractometer that reads from 58-90% on the Brix scale and used that to confirm that we were at the correct sugar content (66.9) with our syrup. So I definitely recommend getting a refractometer if you don't have one!