Medium Amber has a little more maple flavor and is made about mid-season. Dark Amber , although slightly darker and with a stronger maple flavor, is fast becoming a favored table syrup. The sugar maple and black maple are the most common trees tapped to produce maple syrup. A tree should be from 30 to 40 years old before tapping and more than 10 inches in diameter. As a rule of thumb, a tree can give as much as a gallon of sap for each tap it has per day.
Maple sap is a colorless liquid with a light, sweet taste.
Through boiling, the maple taste and amber color are formed. It takes between 30 to 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. Copyright 1997 to 2001. All State disclaimers and permissions apply. Privacy Policy currently applicable to this site.