Nova Maple Syrup is family produced in Northwest Pennsylvania, sustainably harvested from our own hardwood forests. We pride ourselves on making the best syrup possible, and are confident you'll enjoy eating it as much as we enjoy making it! Use it on sweets, meats, and breakfast treats.
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This leak checking video was produced by one of our interns during the 2021 season. Originally planned for internal training use, we decided to make it public in for anyone interested. It gives a basic overview of our sugar bush leak checking procedures at Nova Maple Syrup.
Last September we partnered with Oil Creek Brewing Co to swap oak barrels for aging. They made an amazing smoked stout which was aged in this oak whiskey barrel. Over the last six months our maple syrup has been sitting in that same barrel, absorbing all of the great flavors. We finally opened it for bottling earlier this month, the results were spectacular. We only have 70 of these limited edition bottles, get them from our store before it’s too late!
Now that the 2021 maple season has wrapped up we’d like to share a slideshow of “one second every day”.
We were able to make about 80% of last year’s crop, despite only 3 weeks of sap flow to work with. We tapped our trees in January, but temperatures stayed below freezing all of February and we were not able to boil until March. Rising temperatures without any dips below freezing and low precipitation dried out the trees, and sap flow slowed down to a trickle after mid-late March. Once we heard the peepers and saw the buds on the trees it was time to call it quits.
We’ve started to pull taps now so that the trees have time to heal before next season.
