What a Sap.



tapped trees waiting for the right temps



OM Gosh! 

We love this time of year!

It is the time of the year where the birds come back,

It is the time of the year when the snow begins to melt,

It is the time of the year when the maple trees provide us with Spring's sweet kiss.....

I'm talking about Sap Season.

From tapping the trees in late winter, to waiting and watching the sap drip out to the process of boiling it down, we here at the Brown household just LOVE Spring.  Follow me on our Syurp journey...



finally the first drops....





after collecting buckets the sap is poured into large pots and boiled
down on the wood stove (we do our syrup the old fashion way)



We boil down the sap several times, watching the colour of
the sap to ensure we don't take it too far.





When the sap is starting to brown and boiled down,
the filtering process starts.



sap after the first filter, see how it has started to colour up nicely?



back onto the stove it goes, as you can see in this photo it already
has started to darken nicely, time to give this a check to see if it is done.



Mmmmm, almost there........



Here we are at the final boil down process, a nice 'froth'. We
take the syrup off just as it comes into a rolling boil. The
syrup is ready.



Now we pour it into our bottles.......



Brown's finest Maple Syrup made from scratch.



Happy Spring everyone hope you enjoyed your Maple Syrup Journey with us.

Barb