Small batch · Wood-fired · Family made

Boiled down
to perfection.

From our trees, over our fire, into your bottle. Every batch tapped, boiled, graded and bottled by hand — by me and my family.

Shop the syrup Walk the trail

Tapped Gathered Boiled Graded Bottled by hand

From tree to bottle

Follow the trail.

Five stops between a maple in our woods and the bottle on your table. We don't skip any of them, and we don't hand any of them off.

  1. 1 A sap bag hanging from a tapped maple tree

    Tap

    Every spout set by hand in our [#] maples when the thaw comes.

  2. 2 Sap lines feeding into a collection tank in the woods

    Gather

    From bags and lines into our tanks, then straight to the fire. Sap doesn't wait.

  3. 3 Sap boiling in the evaporator pans over a wood fire

    Boil

    About 40 gallons of sap, boiled down over a wood fire, for one gallon of syrup.

  4. 4 Draw-off and gauges on the side of the evaporator

    Finish

    Drawn off at 7°F above boiling and checked by hydrometer. Exactly right, or not at all.

  5. 5 Rows of freshly bottled Blue Moose maple syrup

    Grade & Bottle

    Filtered, graded by color and hand-bottled by batch.

Forty gallons of sap. A long night by the fire. One perfect gallon.

The Syrup

Three grades, one season.

Early season
Light, backlit bottles of maple syrup

Golden

Delicate — vanilla, butter, light caramel

Best on: yogurt, ice cream, cocktails

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Mid season
Close-up of a bottle of maple syrup

Amber

Rich — caramel, toasted sugar

Best on: pancakes, waffles, oatmeal

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Late season
Three bottles of dark maple syrup

Dark

Robust — molasses, brown sugar, toffee

Best on: bacon, BBQ glaze, an old fashioned

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A row of filled maple syrup bottles
Fresh off this season's bottling
Rows of dark maple syrup bottles
Every bottle filled by hand
PHOTO — cast-iron griddle on the cabin stove, tall stack, Amber pouring

Cabin-morning pancake mix

We could have made it cheaper. We made it right.

This is the recipe behind the pancakes people ask me to make every time they're at camp. Real egg, real milk and real buttermilk cost more than the processed stuff in most mixes — and you can taste it.

  • Dehydrated whole egg
  • Dried whole milk
  • Dried buttermilk
  • [Your secret]
Save me a bag

Our camp

A cabin, a forest and a family that won't cut corners.

[YOUR STORY — the woods, the sugar shack, who's out there with you, and how the Blue Moose got its name.]

[What "perfect" means to you before a bottle gets the Blue Moose name.]

— [your signature]

The wood-fired evaporator steaming beside the cabin in the woods A sap tank glowing at night in the woods Steam rising off the evaporator in the trees

Around the fire

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[Video — tapping day] [Video — a night in the sugar shack] [Video — cabin breakfast]

First pour of the season.

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