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1 In an average year, each tap-hole will produce about 10 gallons of maple sap, enough for about a quart of pure Michigan maple syrup. 2  Maple sap is a slightly sweet, colorless liquid. 3  It takes approximately 40 gallons of maple sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup.
You also need a 5 gallon bucket to collect the sap with and a large volume pan to cook down the sap with and a pan like a 9 x 13 or larger cake pan to do the final cooking. Any kind of maple tree can be used. My husband is thinking about tapping our red maple this year. I forgot to mention about sap/syrup ratio: with a sugar maple tree, the ratio is 32 gallons to 1 which means you need 32 gallons of sap to cook 1 gallon of syrup. If you use other maple trees, the ratio gets higher, more sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. After you cook it down and have strained it through many layers of cheesecloth, you don't have anything else to do.