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Started by LeeB, March 05, 2010, 02:42:40 AM

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LeeB

I wonder if you can make hickory beer. I made some root beer a couple days ago and sampled it tonight. Coming along nicely.
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SwampDonkey

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SwampDonkey

Just turned on the tap at the yellow birch.  :)





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WDH

Save some for when I come up to visit you  ;D.  Syrup that is......
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LeeB

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Dave Shepard

I've made black birch tea from the bark. Not bad, but I was disappointed it didn't taste like it smelled.
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SwampDonkey

Quote from: LeeB on April 01, 2010, 09:34:06 PM
Does it taste like hickory? :D

Tastes like sap at this point. :D
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SwampDonkey

Quote from: Dave Shepard on April 01, 2010, 10:44:04 PM
I've made black birch tea from the bark. Not bad, but I was disappointed it didn't taste like it smelled.

Yeah the wintergreen is an essential oil that disappears with heat. Gotta distill it so it gets captured. ;)
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SwampDonkey



Well, here's a 2 litre batch on to boil, should get maybe 50 ml of syrup.  :D

Let'cha know.  :)
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How we doing? This is after 1.5 hrs boiling. Gotta boil some more. ;)
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SwampDonkey

Reduced to 150 ml of sap. Ginger ale color at this point.

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SwampDonkey

I am here to say that yellow birch tastes very similar to molasses, but with a distinctive taste to it.  8) My only trouble is I need more production. One tap just don't cut it. :D

My uncle tells me that during the first world war the Scottish settlers in what we call the "Scottish Colony", or the "Colony" for short, tapped birch for sugar because it was rationed during the war effort. There is a lot of birch in the "Colony". It was mostly white birch they tapped. It takes quite a bit of boiling down. I only got about 1/2 an once of syrup from 2 litres of sap, and that was not boiled down to a syrup thickness.  :'( :'( :'(

Molasses birch toffee on snow, now wouldn't that be some good stuff? ;)
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chainspinrunner

I have a friend who made syrup from Basswood. Boiled it in a hollowed log. He did the experment for a college course. He told me it was the Native way?? The syrup looked more like bog water, but did have a distinct syrup taste!
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