Maple Syrup Hydrometer Chart

How to use a maple syrup hydrometer hot test for maple syrup syrup should be tested directly from the boiling pan.

Maple syrup hydrometer chart. Allow the hydrometer to stabilize before making a reading. Tap your trees. Measuring testing tools measuring testing. Tubing installation more.

Place syrup sample in a sample cup at least 8 deep. Do not let the syrup sit or cool. The correct density for maple syrup is a minimum of 66 sugar. Description additional information syrup hydrometer for testing your maple syrup while cooking.

If you are testing your syrup at any other is no less than temperature use the compensation chart to the right or simplify the process with a murphy compensation cup float. The baume scale is a measure of how dense the maple syrup is related to the density of water. Fill the hydrometer test cup with syrup until it is approximately 1 to 2 inches from the top and place it on a level surface. The brix scale indicates the percentage of sugar in the maple syrup.

The cold test line is for 60ºf syrup. Keep your hydrometer clean. The brix scale reads the percentage of sugar in the maple syrup. Close the cover 3.

Temperature correction chart for maple sap hydrometer. How to use a maple syrup or sap hydrometer how to use your syrup hydrometer. During maple syrup bottling or testing how it works. A hydrometer works based on the density of the maple syrup.

Sap hydrometer 0 to 8 brix quantity. Hold the hydrometer cup over a pail or your boiling pan and slowly lower the hydrometer into the syrup. When using a hydrometer there are two scales to read. Syrup hydrometer 45 to 75 brix quantity.

Wait 30 60 seconds then press go button 4. Temperature correction chart for maple syrup hydrometer. Determining when to draw maple syrup from the evaporator. Maple syrup must be evaporated to a density between 66 and 67 brix at 68 f.

Sugar content 2 5 86 divided by 2 5 34 4 gallons it will take 34 4 gallons of sap to make one gallon of pure maple syrup from 2 5 percent maple sap. Sap hydrometer 0 to 8 brix 16 00. Divide the sugar content of your sap from your sap hydrometer into 86 to find out how many gallons of sap it will take to make one gallon of pure maple syrup. Do not fill the hydrometer cup with the hydrometer inside as the syrup on the stem will add weight and affect the reading.

Place one or two drops of maple syrup or maple sapon the refratometer surface 2.