Maple Syrup Wine

[charliewgc]

So I just thought I would share my latest experiment

Comments

[ragnorokt]

I had a buddy that tried this with syrup from his families trees and he did not think much of it. He also made a standard mead and back sweetened it with maple syrup and that was wonderful. Did you use Grade A or Grade B? Grade B is darker and more flavorful so it might have more punch in the finished product.

[fan_of_happosai]

FYI, as I understand it, when you ferment maple syrup, the product is called acer. I toyed around with some in the past, and it came out pretty nice.

[dagonell]

In the Vorkosigan novels, the hero discovers that poor people living in the woods drink home-made fermented maple syrup mead. Since I've made mead before, and I tap my own maple syrup, I decided to give it a try. I didn't care for the results. I'd be curious to read any recipes for a good product. Good luck! -- Dagonell

[cissa]

We've made it a couple of times, and it can be really good!

Using a darker syrup is helpful, like Grade B. Also, in our experience the maple flavor wasn't very pronounced when the wine was newish, but got a lot more noticeable as it aged and mellowed.

But yeah- VERY tasty, and we should start another batch!

[charliewgc]

I had real trouble with this - it would't ferment and I restarted it twice and then it just tasted - odd.