I’d probably try it
Why ruin maple syrup with water???
Exactly. Super Troopers got it right.
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One of my wife’s friends has about 200 trees that he taps each year, enough to make syrup for his family and a few gifts. Couple of years ago we were there with the kids for the collecting and boiling. Drank some maple water then, it was delicious.
I probably wouldn’t buy it though.
Not this particular company, but another was at an other forum event a few years back and had samples.
I tapped plenty of trees when I was little, and carried plenty of sap back for either Ma and Dad or Papa to boil down. The sap is absolutely delicious!
However, what they were peddling was not true sap. Maybe the pastuerizing process changes things a bit, I’m not sure. But what I had tasted like either severely watered down sap, or water with a small amount of maple flavoring.
Hard pass.
- Jeff
I’d try it but I wouldn’t think it would be good. I would have guessed if it was, somebody would have marketed it long before now.
I may have to revive my maple tapping again this spring… it is easy to get 20L in a couple of days so maybe the big issue is storage. So pasteurization is not the hard, certainly less than boiling it down to syrup. A safe HTST is 83 deg C for 15 seconds so it should have very little impact on taste. A typical lower temp for milk is 72°C for 15 seconds which I might try as well. I think I need to give this a try just for fun.
It is quite good. Mildly sweet and great mouth feel. Feels rather soft. I might depend on the terroir.