Maple Syrup

[Big Bob]

I've been raised on VT maple syrup and refuse to eat that HFCS Aunt Jemima crap. We recently ran out at home and while I was in Hannaford this past weekend, I tried buying some more. Most of the maple syrup for sale was from NH. I guess since Hannaford is a New England based supermarket (Maine?), they get their products from the cheapest source. The largest VT size I could find there was 16 ounces.

So, if you buy local VT syrup, where do you get it? I usually buy it by the gallon (it freezes great) and last time I paid around $60 (Grade A Dark Amber). Thanks.

We from the Granite state take offense from the above statement about cheap syrup! Marie, back me up!
Hannaford is from Scarborough, Me, but now owned by a European Company, Belgium-based Delhaize Group.

[spanky]

Click on the county you care about:

http://vermontmaple.org/open-year-round ... ty=rutland

Thanks for the link. This lead me to Sugar and Spice. They sell gallons online for $58.50 (+ $10 shipping)...

http://vtsugarandspice.com/maplesyrupgallon.aspx

I wonder if the price is higher/lower/same at the restaurant. I'll check it out next time I'm up.

[junior]

Click on the county you care about:

http://vermontmaple.org/open-year-round ... ty=rutland

Thanks for the link. This lead me to Sugar and Spice. They sell gallons online for $58.50 (+ $10 shipping)...

http://vtsugarandspice.com/maplesyrupgallon.aspx

I wonder if the price is higher/lower/same at the restaurant. I'll check it out next time I'm up.

Stopped in there for B'fast on Sunday after skiing on the way home. They gave us samples of Saturday's batch. It was still warm. Tasted unreal. Love watching them make the syrup downstairs. My daughter was amazed at the whole process, especially the guy throwing the wood into the fire under the evaporator. Pretty cool.

[MarieM]

I've been raised on VT maple syrup and refuse to eat that HFCS Aunt Jemima crap. We recently ran out at home and while I was in Hannaford this past weekend, I tried buying some more. Most of the maple syrup for sale was from NH. I guess since Hannaford is a New England based supermarket (Maine?), they get their products from the cheapest source. The largest VT size I could find there was 16 ounces.

So, if you buy local VT syrup, where do you get it? I usually buy it by the gallon (it freezes great) and last time I paid around $60 (Grade A Dark Amber). Thanks.

We from the Granite state take offense from the above statement about cheap syrup! Marie, back me up!
Hannaford is from Scarborough, Me, but now owned by a European Company, Belgium-based Delhaize Group.

Cheap = nicely inexpensive, not poor quality!! ; - )

If you'd like to ski Loon this weekend, you can also find out for yourself how good our syrup is.

"The New Hampshire Maple Festival Weekend takes place during the last full weekend of March (March 27-28) and is a combination of activities, events, education, tastings, and visits to the sugar houses throughout the state of New Hampshire. Held in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, the NH Maple Fest is the hub of activity during the New Hampshire Maple Weekend when over 65 sugar houses across the state will welcome visitors.

This sticky-sweet weekend commences on Friday evening, March 26, with many local restaurants featuring maple products in their menus. On Saturday, join in on some fun with the planned activities and tasting in North Woodstock. Then, head on out to your favorite neck of the maple groves to help bring in the sap, or to witness how evaporation creates that syrup we’ve all come to love. Saturday night, the Lincoln Woodstock Rotary will host its first-ever Maple Dinner, with entertainment and the crowning of the first Maple King and Queen. The sap continues to run on Sunday with the New Hampshire Maple Festival Parade, through the streets of North Woodstock, NH. See the king and queen in all their glory, as you recover from your pancake breakfast."

(Although honestly not sure if there will, in fact, be much skiing at Loon this weekend. Not hearing good things from the locals.)

[Clutch]

BTW Most VT syrup is made from NY sap. Does that make it NY syrup?

Not true...

Never can tell where "vermont maple syrup" comes from...

[RENO]

VT, NH, NY... Doesn't matter. It's all good...

[shortski]

BTW Most VT syrup is made from NY sap. Does that make it NY syrup?

Not true...

Never can tell where "vermont maple syrup" comes from...

Vermont has a strict and enforced law on vt made being used in products or company names.

http://www.atg.state.vt.us/assets/files ... %20FAQ.pdf

[Geoff]

BTW Most VT syrup is made from NY sap. Does that make it NY syrup?

Not true...

Never can tell where "vermont maple syrup" comes from...

Notice that Vermont is pissing on New York. Quite the metaphor.

[shortski]

Thats something I would expect from Humpty

[LisaM]

BTW Most VT syrup is made from NY sap. Does that make it NY syrup?

Not true...

Never can tell where "vermont maple syrup" comes from...

Notice that Vermont is pissing on New York. Quite the metaphor.

Had to laugh at that one.
I remember several years ago when our elderly neighbor asked Reno and I about Vermont maple syrup. We bought him some the next time we came up and after he tried it on his pancakes, he actually told us that he preferred the Aunt Jemima stuff!

[RENO]

BTW Most VT syrup is made from NY sap. Does that make it NY syrup?

Not true...

Never can tell where "vermont maple syrup" comes from...

Notice that Vermont is pissing on New York. Quite the metaphor.

Had to laugh at that one.
I remember several years ago when our elderly neighbor asked Reno and I about Vermont maple syrup. We bought him some the next time we came up and after he tried it on his pancakes, he actually told us that he preferred the Aunt Jemima stuff!

I miss Bill. He was a character...

[DrJeff]

I've been raised on VT maple syrup and refuse to eat that HFCS Aunt Jemima crap. We recently ran out at home and while I was in Hannaford this past weekend, I tried buying some more. Most of the maple syrup for sale was from NH. I guess since Hannaford is a New England based supermarket (Maine?), they get their products from the cheapest source. The largest VT size I could find there was 16 ounces.

So, if you buy local VT syrup, where do you get it? I usually buy it by the gallon (it freezes great) and last time I paid around $60 (Grade A Dark Amber). Thanks.

We from the Granite state take offense from the above statement about cheap syrup! Marie, back me up!
Hannaford is from Scarborough, Me, but now owned by a European Company, Belgium-based Delhaize Group.

Cheap = nicely inexpensive, not poor quality!! ; - )

If you'd like to ski Loon this weekend, you can also find out for yourself how good our syrup is.

"The New Hampshire Maple Festival Weekend takes place during the last full weekend of March (March 27-28) and is a combination of activities, events, education, tastings, and visits to the sugar houses throughout the state of New Hampshire. Held in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, the NH Maple Fest is the hub of activity during the New Hampshire Maple Weekend when over 65 sugar houses across the state will welcome visitors.

This sticky-sweet weekend commences on Friday evening, March 26, with many local restaurants featuring maple products in their menus. On Saturday, join in on some fun with the planned activities and tasting in North Woodstock. Then, head on out to your favorite neck of the maple groves to help bring in the sap, or to witness how evaporation creates that syrup we’ve all come to love. Saturday night, the Lincoln Woodstock Rotary will host its first-ever Maple Dinner, with entertainment and the crowning of the first Maple King and Queen. The sap continues to run on Sunday with the New Hampshire Maple Festival Parade, through the streets of North Woodstock, NH. See the king and queen in all their glory, as you recover from your pancake breakfast."

Down in Southern VT, they had a maple festival last weekend in the Whitingham area. Hit up 3 of the local sugarhouses (all in full syruping (?sp) mode) with my wife and kids. Our 2nd year in a row doing this, and just a neat thing to see AND TASTE!!! Bought a couple of 1/2 gallons of my favorite, Grade A Medium Amber, that my kids actually helped bottle, so they thought it was pretty cool too! Had tasting samples of the everything from the sap to the finished product and even some freshly made maple ice cream at one of the sugarhouses.

(Although honestly not sure if there will, in fact, be much skiing at Loon this weekend. Not hearing good things from the locals.)

Marie, as for Loon and next weekend, one of my hygienists and her family have a seasonal rental up there this year, and were up last weekend. When I asked her yesterday how it was last weekend, her reply "atleast the martini's in the bar were good"

[icedtea]

Mendon Mt. Orchards on Rt. 4.

[SnoBrdr]

BTW Most VT syrup is made from NY sap. Does that make it NY syrup?

Not true...

Never can tell where "vermont maple syrup" comes from...

Vermont has a strict and enforced law on vt made being used in products or company names.

http://www.atg.state.vt.us/assets/files ... %20FAQ.pdf

Well, from the regulations I read, it was very vague.

It didn't say that the products had to be grown in Vermont, but that they had to be MADE in Vermont.

[robrules]

I remember a couple of years ago there was a brewhaha over where maple syrup that was packaged as coming from a certain state in the us, was made of mostly syrup from canada.

Count me as another wacko who prefers cheap aunt jemima type syrup - I drench my pancakes in so much syrup, that real maple syrup is lost on me - and would cost about $8 in syrup for breakfast if I used it.