Our Syrup
Our syrups range in flavor from Vermont Fancy, a surprisingly complex golden delicate, to our darkest of dark syrups, Mephistopheles Maple. We produce in limited quantity each year by hand through a long slow boil over a wood fire. Our syrups are currently only available at our sugar house in Warren. Email us in advance of your visit and we would be happy to arrange a tasting and tour and syrup pickup. Or stop by anytime during the sugaring season (mid-March to mid-April) when you see the steam rising from our sugar house!
Vermont Fancy
“Vermont Fancy” is our lightest grade syrup, the first syrup we pull in the season - when the sap is sweetest, and the orchard is coldest. This syrup, classified as “golden, delicate taste” by the VT Agency of Agriculture, is sweet with vanilla notes. It is a perfect complement to Greek yogurt and fresh fruit, or a substitute for simple syrup in your favorite light cocktail.
Boiler’s Reserve
“Boiler’s Reserve” is our Amber grade syrup, still retaining the buoyant early season sweetness of its “Fancy” predecessor, but now complementing the vanilla with subtle maple notes. Surprisingly complex in its subtleties. Try in baklava or tea in lieu of honey, or just keep a flask in your back pocket for a quick shot of maple-vanilla heaven.
Stuff Worth Fighting For
“Stuff worth fighting for” would be a fond association with all our syrups, but in marketing, we gift this nom de guerre to our middle child. Classified as “Dark - Robust taste” by the VT Agency of Agriculture; this syrup, made through the middle of our season, is your perfect pancake syrup. Deliciously balanced with a confident maple flavor that holds up to a stack of your favorite cozy carbohydrate.
Magi’s Magic
Magi’s Magic is the “Very Dark” shade of our syrup spectrum. Classified with “Strong taste;” this syrup has a complex, maple forward aplomb - that calls forth the alchemy of a season’s last bitterly cold nights, and the mist of evaporating snow brought on by warm mornings. It is the sweet complex chaos of a forest’s rebirth, and the sorcery of distilling its essence.
Mephistopheles
The last boil of the season is always bittersweet; it is a time when our aching muscles, tired from the season’s labors can see some rest on the horizon…it is also a time when the trees, in their yawning denouement stretch, shaking off Winter’s slumber to welcome Primavera’s warmth transfer a deeply complex flavor into the sap - and thus, the richest syrup is produced. Mephistopheles Maple is always made from our final boil of the season. Its namesake is embedded in the Faustian Bargain, for we as sugar makers never quite know how much syrup we will get in this transaction, but it will be glorious. Our sap and wood stores are low, the tree’s taps are drying up, and the sugar content is at its lowest making the boil times long….but the syrup is darkly divine. The flavor is bold and sublimely Maple, with notes of caramel and fire.
