There have been some cold nights and some warm days. The sap is still running on some of our maple trees. More than likely this is probably very grade B sap.
A little while ago I took a walk though the sugarbush. Some of the trees have completely shut down. Some of the buckets have colonies of spiders and flies. A good observational experiment for the little guy;). But some of the buckets were overflowing with sap. Some of the sap had become a little milky;which means that it has started to ferment. So I collected what I had. It turned out that there was still about 10 gallons of sap.
So this is what I am thinking...I am going to boil that ten gallons down to about about 1 quart. In past years we have used this kinda-gone-past sap for making a pretty potent ale. This year I was thinking about making a maple mead.
Think I'll use the recipe from this site.
1 comment:
Maple mead sounds yum! We made "Maple Brew" one year from sap we thought had gone past. It was interesting.
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