This Is How To Make Maple Syrup In Your Backyard

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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