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On the hunt for some Maple Syrup

Pyre said:
I made a rib glaze using pure maple syrup. We got ours at wal-mart for $8 per little tiny bottle. I used a cup and it was almost empty. The real stuff is expensive.
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Farm price is about 35 to 40 dollars a gallon. The stuff is heavy. By the time it gets to you, guess what?

Doc.
 
MAPLE SYRUP FACTS...

A maple tree lasts at least 30 years and is 12 inches in diameter before it is tapped.

As a tree increases in diameter more taps can be added, up to a maximum of four.

Tapping does no permanent damage to the tree.
Only 10% of the sap is collected each year.

Each tap yields an average of 10 gallons of sap per season,
yielding about one quart of syrup.

Warm sunny days (above 40º F) and frosty nights are ideal for sap flow.

The maple season may last 4 to 6 weeks, but sap flow is heaviest for 10 to 20 days.

Sap flowing in high volumes is called a "run".

The harvest season ends with the arrival of warm spring nights and early bud development in the trees.

30-50 gallons of sap are evaporated to make one gallon of syrup.

Maple Syrup is boiled even further to produce Maple Cream, Sugar and Candy.

It takes one gallon of syrup to produce eight pounds of candy or sugar.

A gallon of pure Maple Syrup weighs 11 pounds.

The sugar content of sap averages 2.5%

The sugar content of syrup averages 66.5%
 
I've been using pure syrup for years. A friend has a sugar shack in CT and in VT.
When friends come over and try it...the are floored.
Big difference from the sugar stuff!
 
grateful1 said:
I've been using pure syrup for years. A friend has a sugar shack in CT and in VT.
When friends come over and try it...the are floored.
Big difference from the sugar stuff!
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yea.. someone ruined us! :whistling:

That stuff was (is) soooooo damn good. Even better and less sweet than the store bought 100% pure stuff.
 
jabba, I don't know where you got your info but.... You show me a 30 yr old sugar maple that's 12" in diameter and I'll eat my hat. It takes 40 yrs for a sugar maple to reach 10". Most of the trees in my sugar bush are at least 100yrs old. trees from 10 to 18 in. get one tap. Larger trees get no more that 3. Many of my trees can be measured in feet. They still only get three. The holes are 5/16 in dia. and about 2" in deep. It should take no more that 40gal of sap to make a gal. of syrup. If it takes 50, then the damn fool is taping red maples which makes for lousy syrup. By the way, if you haven't had real maple syrup, I wouldn't wait too long, Our beloved trees are being damaged by climate change.

Doc.

The Facts
 
DevilDoc,

I believe the author was treating those as two seperate pieces of info...

A maple tree lasts at least 30 years; and is 12 inches in diameter before it is tapped.
 
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