The Maple
The purpose of a maple tree storing sap over winter.
What is provide energy for spring growth?
The device tapped into the maple to allow sap to flow out of the tree.
What is a spile?
The product was maple sap originally used to produce.
What is maple sugar?
This is the most common way transform sap to syrup.
What is boiling?
This is the latest trend for maple sap in the marketing world.
What is selling filtered sap as an energy drink?
The end of the sap collecting season.
What is when buds appear on the trees?
What is 2 to 3 %?
According to this legend, the Creator took the gift of maple syrup from these people because they abused his gift.
Who is the Mohawk?
Syrup made at the beginning of the season is usually referred to as this colour.
What is light amber?
This fuel source has made boiling syrup safer and more efficient.
What is fuel oil, natural gas?
Sugar, red, black, and silver.
What are types of maple trees?
Ratio of sap to get 1 litre of syrup.
What is 40 to 1?
This year is the earliest written report of maple sugaring.
What is 1557?
This province makes and exports most of the world's maple syrup.
What is Quebec?
This advancement in sap collection allows large producers to operate thousand tree operations without having a huge labor force.
What is tubing systems?
This is the direction sap flows within the tree during sap collection.
What is from top to bottom?
Low cost, labor intensive way to collect sap.
What is sap buckets?
In the 1850s, this replaced maple sugar as the sweetener of choice.
The reason we use wide shallow pans to boil syrup instead of narrow, deep pans.
What is a high surface area for water to evaporate?
This pulls the sap from the tubes into the sugar shack to be evaporated.
What is a vacuum?
This is what distinguishes a maple tree from other trees.
What is its bark and its branches grow at 180 degrees to each other?
Time of year sap is collected.
What is during the Sugar Moon or early March to late April?
Before metal pots, these were used to evaporate water from the sap.
What is hot rocks?
Syrup made towards the end of the season tends to have this colour and flavour.
What is dark and a bold maple flavour?
This process is used to remove up to 60% of the water from sap, before it reaches the evaporator using a extremely fine filter.
What is reverse osmosis?