EXPERIENCE REAL DELICIOUS WISCONSIN MAPLE SYRUP
One of the things we are most proud to sell in our gift shop is real Wisconsin maple syrup made right here at Anderson's Christmas Tree Farm! Our syrup is pure, rich, and golden-sweet, giving you the taste of Sunday morning, any day of the week. It's 100% real with no artificial ingredients or high-fructose corn syrup, straight from our farm to your table.
Every winter, between late January to early February, we start the "sugaring" process by drilling a hole into our sugar maple trees and inserting a metal tube called a tap. A tree may get more than one tap depending on the size of the tree and we tap over 100 trees every year. Another tube is then connected to each tap, which leads to either a bucket for collection or a larger tube called a mainline. The mainline winds through the trees from the top of our hill and down to the bottom of the ravine, which is on the east side of the farm. The mainline leads to a 500-gallon tote to collect a lot of sap in one spot. When the temperature starts to climb above freezing during the daytime, the sap naturally starts to flow from the trees and we collect all of the sap from the buckets and the tote every day to filter it and put it into our evaporator (the tower you see in the pictures below). The sap is drawn from the tower and gravity fed into an evaporator pan, which is heated by a wood fire below. From there, the water is evaporated out of the sap through a boiling process, which leaves the sweet syrup we all know and enjoy!
Once the syrup is ready, it's filtered again and dispensed into the bottles you see in our gift shop. The bottles are sealed, labeled, and boxed by the dozen until it's time to put them on the shelf for you. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup because raw sap is mostly water with only about 2% sugar content! If you've ever tasted our maple syrup, you know that the 2% is worth it! Especially on pancakes, waffles, or French toast.
Stop into our gift shop to pick up a bottle (or 3!) of Anderson's homemade real maple syrup.
Every winter, between late January to early February, we start the "sugaring" process by drilling a hole into our sugar maple trees and inserting a metal tube called a tap. A tree may get more than one tap depending on the size of the tree and we tap over 100 trees every year. Another tube is then connected to each tap, which leads to either a bucket for collection or a larger tube called a mainline. The mainline winds through the trees from the top of our hill and down to the bottom of the ravine, which is on the east side of the farm. The mainline leads to a 500-gallon tote to collect a lot of sap in one spot. When the temperature starts to climb above freezing during the daytime, the sap naturally starts to flow from the trees and we collect all of the sap from the buckets and the tote every day to filter it and put it into our evaporator (the tower you see in the pictures below). The sap is drawn from the tower and gravity fed into an evaporator pan, which is heated by a wood fire below. From there, the water is evaporated out of the sap through a boiling process, which leaves the sweet syrup we all know and enjoy!
Once the syrup is ready, it's filtered again and dispensed into the bottles you see in our gift shop. The bottles are sealed, labeled, and boxed by the dozen until it's time to put them on the shelf for you. It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup because raw sap is mostly water with only about 2% sugar content! If you've ever tasted our maple syrup, you know that the 2% is worth it! Especially on pancakes, waffles, or French toast.
Stop into our gift shop to pick up a bottle (or 3!) of Anderson's homemade real maple syrup.
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