How Real Vermont Maple Syrup Is Made | Regional Eats

The Maple Guild in Island Pond, Vermont produces 1 million bottles of maple syrup each year.
It takes about 44 gallons of sap to make just 1 gallon of syrup. The Maple Guild pioneered a method called Steam-Crafting, which speeds up the production process.

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How Real Vermont Maple Syrup Is Made | Regional Eats

[holyravioli]

So the more trees we can plant, the more maple syrup we can make and help stop global warming? Sounds like a sweet deal.

[Snarkbar]

I love how this video celebrates the intrusion of big business into what had been an industry with mostly family farmers.

[kairisponyta]

Listen, I'm a born and raised vermonter and I can tell you, the traditional way of boiling is so much better and it doesn't give it a more maple flavor, it makes it more like the fake shit. And that grade a stuff that they were showing, looks like it's not boiled at all. When you want maple syrup, it has to be a deep amber color. The darker, the sweeter and more rich maple flavor it is.

[MattieAMiller]

Maple syrup production actually peaked in the US almost 100 years ago. Syrup production was 4 times higher in 1900 than 2000. The reason for the decline is that most maple syrup back then was produced at the family level, not commercial. If you had maple trees on your property, you were probably making maple syrup back then. The tradition died in most places as consumerism took over, as did the taste for maple.

[cricardol]

On the Canada map, they have put markers Everywhere except the top maple syrup producing province. Maple syrup is mostly produced in Quebec (vast majority of the worldwide production)

[chesterfarrington]

Grew up making maple syrup in VT. My family’s sugar house is old enough so no one alive knows when it was built. While operations like this are where your VT maple syrup in the store comes from, there are a ton that do it more old fashioned. And if you find yourself in VT during sugaring season, I encourage you to stop in and check out one of the smaller operations. It’s really cool, and they’ll give you free samples and probably hand you a beer

[NewfieParamedic]

I'm still waiting to see the movie about the $10 million maple syrup theft in Canada.

[emilywilliams]

Me, a Canadian: *THEY TOOK OUR JEEERRBS*

[esmewayne]

Ok, but I'm Canadian and I know that the lower the grade of the maple syrup the better it tastes. It means that it was cooked slower, over less heat, allowing more time for the sugars to caramelize and tastes more sugary. The best maple syrup isn't found in the stores, it's made by hand by people with no machines or equipment just a cabin in the woods with a few maple trees on it. This kinda moonshine maple syrup is almost pitch black, and tastes so delicious and sweet.

[evancobb]

I like that they’re aware that the trees are alive and tap them in different areas so that they can heal.

[Azknowledgethirsty]

As a European I've never drank a single drop of maple syrup and that's sad



Edit: since this comment was posted, I've tasted it, despite it being rare, and it tastes ok

[akcorbel]

As a Canadian maple syrup aficionado I’ve always liked the darker syrups as I think they have way more flavours

[kjsinsaino]

I have made my own maple syrup a few times from trees on my property. It was a lot of time well spent, nothing tastes better than something you work hard for!!! Thousands of trees like these people, or just three of four taps...as long as you treat the trees right it is a wonderful way to harvest some of the best sweets nature has to offer!!!

[mila]

I'm 32, Italian and still don't know how maple syrup taste like😫😫😫 I want it!!!

[misakit.]

tbh I would pay 3x the price for a traditional, non industrial, maple syrup. I love contributing to keeping old traditions alive and believe there is a touch of something special that can't be replicated in a machine.

[kokonana]

Canada: we have a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve!
The US: O yeah, here we own the Maple Guild.
And, that's how the Maple Syrup War starts. Gonna be the sweetest war ever!

[AdmiralParallax]

Usa: here is how we make maple syrup, we think its neat.
Canada: CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP IS BETTER

[DiamondTurtle]

I wish I had smellovision lol I bet that factory smells AMAZING!

[richardroy]

The reverse osmosis method produces a purer/cleaner/sanitized product. Personally, I prefer the smoky stuff you get when it's boiled over the course of hours. IMO, If you're in a mapleing region, seek out local, smaller scale producers for a better product!

[slove]

As a Canadian, there is nothing better than Canadian maple syrup. I remember going to Quebec with my elementary school and we got to go to a maple syrup farm and got to try it . It was soooo amazing especially when they put it on the snow ❄ yum ! 😋 🥰😍