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Maple Ridge Tapper
Hi Clinkis. It' more robust and has flavors of caramel and butterscotch notes. It's very, very good I hear and gets more robust as the season goes on. That's info from the other tappers out here I know though. I personally haven't tried any yet
But you can get exactly those same flavour notes from any maples, not just big leafs. I have gotten caramel and butterscotch notes from my bush of sugars. Somewhere there is a flavour wheel showing flavours you can expect to get.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup