Maple Sap Beverage Products

[Mapleissweet]

Wondering who is making beverage products with maple sap?
I have experimented with several processes of preserving maple sap over the past 7 years.
Having good luck with pasteurization systems, and ph balancing. not a lot of consistent luck with keeping sap fresh over the long haul, and have had mixed results when the sap starts cloudy.

[Bricklayer]

I looked into it last year and for a couple hundred thousand $$$ you can get an inline pasteurizer. Also noticed that most sap water is bottled in tetra packs. So there's more $$$. My guess is that once pasteurized it dosnt touch air at all and goes right to a bottler. Has a 6 month shelf life if I can remember correctly.
There was a post on here from last year when we discussed it. Ill see if I can post a link if I find it

http://mapletrader.com/community/showthread.php?26279-Maple-Sap-Water/page1

Picture of flash pasteurizer

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/bottenhof/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-01/173FEEC9-84B2-4336-971E-A5F0470645BB_zps1t4yp8px.jpg (http://s1070.photobucket.com/user/bottenhof/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-01/173FEEC9-84B2-4336-971E-A5F0470645BB_zps1t4yp8px.jpg.html)

[Daveg]

I saw my first bottle of maple sap for sale on a store shelf this past fall. I should have written down the particulars, but I remember thinking it was expensive. It's possible it was in Alaska, so that alone would have been a good reason for it to be pricey! Sap is heavy stuff to ship.