Birch Sugaring

[HowsItRunning]

Birch sap has started to flow in Northern Vermont. For anyone interested in birch syrup, I've added a real-time birch sap flow monitor to my maple sugaring website. Here's a sample, showing the temperature, flow rate and total sap for the last day, from one tap.

https://howsitrunning.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/plot_birch_1_1t.jpg

The webpage is here...
https://howsitrunning.com/birch-season-for-1-tap/

I hope some find this useful, and I'm always looking for feedback, thanks...

[NhShaun]

Thanks for sharing. I am hoping to start tapping birch next season and will use this info as a reference.

[Mean_Oscar]

First, thanks so much for posting this! Your experience with sugar content is almost exactly the same as ours with black birches in NE TN: Low early and peaking just before it abruptly ends. We collected and processed about 120 gallons of 0.4%. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-h4pR-Skr2Px8KfEe0m3l1ljXi_3IIV0/view?usp=sharing This is a picture of some of what I have made simmering and vacuum boiling.
Do you find that birch is much harder to RO to a higher Brix than maple?