How Maple Syrup is made - a short documentary. From tapping the maple trees to boiling the sap. A quick overview of the steps involved in producing syrup from the sap from maple trees.

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I filmed this while helping my father make maple syrup in the Adirondack mountains of New York.
Making maple syrup is hard work. It can take several days to tap all of the trees. First the drilling, then hammering in the spiles. In the video buckets are hung from the spiles to collect the sap that flows from the maples, but most people run tubes now.

If tubes are used the sap runs downhill through the tube to a tank that collects it. If buckets are used, then they need to be checked every day, and emptied.

After the sap has been collected it is boiled down using an evaporator. When the sap has a sugar content of 67% it is considered maple syrup. This process is time consuming, and involves preparing the previous year by cutting large amount of firewood to fuel the evaporator.

the sugar content of the syrup it tested with a hydrometer. The hydrometer will only float after enough water has been boiled off.

for a little more information about maple syrup production check out this post on my website
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