Maple Syrup at Home Inspections by J. A. Thibodeau

Pure Home Made New Hampshire Maple Syrup

2009 crop Now Available!

Look for our sign on River Road or call ahead to make sure we're available and open.

During the early spring, when the Home Inspections business tends to slow down a bit, our family enjoys the art of making pure New Hampshire maple syrup. We have a very small maple orchard and put out about 225 taps. Most of the clear sap is gathered by tubing with a few single trees using jugs or buckets.

The maple sap flows from the small lines to the larger main line where it continues down hill through the tubing to the sugar house. We also use a small pump to help the sap flow better.

The sap is collected in drums and pumped to a preheater before it enters the evaporator. This helps the sap warm up so it doesn't slow down the boiling. The evaporator is a stainless steel container with multiple enclosures that the sap flows through as it get closer to syrup.

Depending on the sugar content, it can require the boiling of 40 to 50 gallons of sap for every gallon of maple syrup produced.

As the boiled maple sap enters the last two areas, you can see the color of the sap darken as it gets closer and closer to sweet syrup. And you can also see how much steam we make as the water boils off and the sugar remains behind.

We have a very high-tech way of getting the steam out. Well, maybe not so high-tech after all but, it works fine.

I hope you have enjoyed our little tour. Although we don't open our sugar house for the general public, I love to show the kids (and grown-ups too) how it all works. Give us a call some time in late January and February and we'll let you know when we may be boiling. Tasting samples are gladly offered when the time is right!

Syrup will be available for sale at our home located at 611 River Road, Weare NH. Give us a call for availability at 529-7330. Quantity is limited due to our small operation but, our syrup is guarantied to be one of the best, as well as, at very reasonable low prices.

Quarts $17.00

Pints $9.00

1/2 Pints $5.00

These prices are for 2009.

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