Very Dark Maple Syrup
Maple sugar was the gift European settlers received from First Nations peoples living in the belt of hardwood forest in northeastern North America. It was not until much later that maple syrup became the preferred maple product. Our Very Dark syrup is excellent in baking and even in meat dishes. Try it as a glaze and as a bass note in sauces, dressings, and marinades. The Forbes Wild Foods sugar bush is a single forest near Goderich, Ontario. To avoid developing burnt or smokey flavours, our syrup is first run through a reverse osmosis machine that produces a clean tasting syrup full of true maple flavour. It is then further reduced in a low temperature simmer to 66 brix, this production method means you get a complex, true and superior very dark syrup with an incredibly clean flavour profile.
Our premium quality maple syrup is different from conventional mass market maple syrup because animal-fat defoamers are not used, and all the equipment used is washed in the pure water taken from the sap. Formaldehyde plugs that can hamper microbial and fungal growth are not used and the trees are not injected with chemicals that force them to produce more sap.
Maple syrup should be used within three years of being purchased. Opened maple syrup can last for one year in the fridge if you can avoid drinking directly from the bottle.
We offer two other strengths of maple syrup: Amber and Dark
Let our reviews speak for us, when we started selling very dark syrup there was very little of a commercial market for the darker syrup and it is clear that this is really the syrup people want. So we pride ourselves o making sure people have access to the best and cleanest tasting very dark maple syrup available.