birch syrup

Took a drive up to Talkeetna recently and noticed something new -- acres and acres and acres of birch trees with white plastic buckets sitting next to them. Syrup gathering season was underway.

I had visions of tapping all the birch trees in my yard but then I read the articles linked to above and learned that it takes 100 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. So maybe I won't be doing that after all! As if I need another foraging habit to add to my obsessive berry-picking anyway.

But I will be getting myself a bottle of birch-syrup infused vodka for a camping and float tube fishing trip next week. Vodka tonics around the campfire sound awesome. Read more about the company that produces the vodka here.
 

Comments

[siri]

Molly, I've never heard of birch syrup. Have I been living in a cave or is it something new that's only sweeping Alaska?

[Molly]

Huh -- perhaps people are reluctant to make birch syrup because it's easier to make maple?

[RussTschetter]

Birch syrup is awesome, one of many things I miss from the Great Land.