We made Beech Syrup!
By tapping the trees for sap collection, it may be possible to create value from the beech trees in your forest.
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By tapping the trees for sap collection, it may be possible to create value from the beech trees in your forest.
Today we are at the UVM Proctor Maple Research Center in Underhill Center, Vt. with center director Dr. Timothy Perkins, Jean Francois Goulet of Lapierre Equipment and Proctor’s Abby Van Den Berg, boiling on a Lapierre HyperBrix system with 35 percent concentrate. The new technology takes out 2/3rds of the water from the sap before it hits the evaporator. Lapierre donated the equipment to the Proctor center to support research. Van Den Berg’s findingsÑfollowing a blind taste test last fall with a group of volunteersÑ found there is no noticeable taste difference between syrup produced in a high brix process vs. conventional syrup.
Short and long-range weather forecasts can both be useful to determine the proper time to tap. But both also have limitations.
The 2012 USDA Census of Agriculture reveals trends in growth for number of producers and number of taps in many states.
This research shows the trends in bulk syrup prices in the U.S. and Canada between 1998 and 2015.
This research shows trends in sap yield in US states and Quebec from 2001-2014.
This article explores the growth of the maple industry in the U.S. as reported in the 2012 Census of Agriculture.
One of the many off-flavors that can be found in maple syrup is metabolism, often compared to the taste of wet cardboard or ‘woody.’ This article explains metabolism and how to identify it.
Birch syrup production uses the same equipment as maple syrup production, and the spring sapflow season begins just as the maple season is ending. Sugarmakers might want to consider adding birch production to their operations to generate additional revenue.
As the maple water industry has grown, this study conducted a taste test of various brands of commonly available maple waters.