# Why don't you ever see maple syrup from New Hampshire? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238 "2015-08-07T15:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/1 "2015-08-07T15:02:21Z")
I’ve been wondering this for a while. A lot of stores that sell maple syrup offer bottles made in Maine and Vermont. Why don’t you ever see syrup from NH? I know they have maple trees there. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/2 "2015-08-07T15:07:53Z")
They’re not part of Big Maple. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/3 "2015-08-07T15:09:34Z")
Are they sugar maples though? My understanding (limited, I’ll admit) is that while you can get sap from most trees. Sugar maples produce a much higher sugar content and sufficiently to make it commercially viable. As an aside, I’ve had birch syrup and it is amazing, but expensive because they have to harvest about 10x as much sap to produce the syrup. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/4 "2015-08-07T15:15:58Z")
The President in The West Wing insisted that New Hampshire maple syrup be served at the White House Pancake Breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/5 "2015-08-07T15:16:49Z")
I have some in my refrigerator. My son has a friend who lives in New Hampshire. They make plenty of maple syrup. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/6 "2015-08-07T15:42:53Z")
I see it whenever I visit NH. New Hampshire maple syrup doesn’t have the marketing cachet as Vermont maple syrup. So if you’re not in New Hampshire, stores are more likely to stock Vermont syrup, or syrup from Canada with no name. There’s New York maple syrup,too, but again, you only see it in New York. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/7 "2015-08-07T15:49:36Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I see it whenever I visit NH. > > New Hampshire maple syrup doesn’t have the marketing cachet as Vermont maple syrup. So if you’re not in New Hampshire, stores are more likely to stock Vermont syrup, or syrup from Canada with no name. > > There’s New York maple syrup,too, but again, you only see it in New York. I have my daughter bring down some whenever she visits. Upstate NY\* (aka Canada) really is good for something. 🆒 \*Anything north of Orange and Putnam 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/8 "2015-08-07T17:23:48Z")
NH makes syrup, but less than 20% of Vermont’s output. [Cite.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup#Commerce) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/9 "2015-08-07T17:26:22Z")
In New Hampshire you see it all the time. They’ve put up a couple of (relkatively) new Visitor’s Cenmterrs on either side of Interstate 93 just south of Concord, NH (one on each side). It used to be that these were mainly liquor stores, hoping to sell you cut-rate wine and booze, but they expanded them into full-size rest stops, with one place selling NH products, including maple syrup and stuff made with maple sugar. You can also get it at places like Polar Caves in NH. Or over the internet: > **[New Hampshire Maple Producers Association, Inc.](https://nhmapleproducers.com/)** > > Celebrating 80 Years! The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association, Inc. is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion of New Hampshire’s many acclaimed sugarhouses and its delicious maple syrup. The NHMPA organizes several public... > **[New Hampshire Maple Syrup | Home-Made NH Maple Syrup From a Maple Syrup Farm](http://www.newhampshire-maplesyrup.com/)** > > New Hampshire Maple Syrup made by Out East Maple Farm is the best New Hampshire maple syrup in Lancaster, New Hampshire. [http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=nh+maple+syrup&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=4161512000&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&ref=pd\_sl\_1yard3dbkl\_e](http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=nh+maple+syrup&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=4161512000&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_1yard3dbkl_e) You see more “Vermont” syrup because: > [@](#): > > Vermont is the biggest US producer, with over 1,320,000 US gallons (5,000,000 L) during the 2013 season, followed by New York with 574,000 US gallons (2,170,000 L) and Maine with 450,000 US gallons (1,700,000 L). Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut all produced marketable quantities of maple syrup of less than 265,000 US gallons (1,000,000 L) each in 2013.[47] As of 2003, Vermont produced about 5.5 percent of the global syrup supply.[43] > **[Maple syrup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup)** > > Maple syrup is a syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the sap, which is processed by heating to evaporate much of the water, leaving the concentrated syrup. > Maple syrup was first made by the Indigenous peoples of Northeastern North America. T... ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/10 "2015-08-07T18:15:50Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The President in The West Wing insisted that New Hampshire maple syrup be served at the White House Pancake Breakfast. \*“Vermont \* maple syrup in this White House?!” ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/11 "2015-08-07T18:40:39Z")
If you think NH syrup is scarce, try finding \*Illinois \*maple syrup. This site claims that 17 states produce maple syrup. Ten states are listed in the wiki article as producing “marketable” amounts of the stuff and Illinois isn’t one of them. As a kid, I’ve been to a sugar bush somewhere vaguely northwestish of Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![pabstist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pabstist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pabstist)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/12 "2015-08-08T01:54:56Z")
I live in Vermont, and last Xmas my MIL gave me a jug of Massachusetts maple syrup. At least it wasn’t from New Hampshire! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/13 "2015-08-08T04:04:19Z")
I helped out at an Ontario sugarbush for a few springs. We made great syrup. I used to get about a half-gallon a year, at no charge (more if I wanted to pay for it). ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-you-ever-see-maple-syrup-from-new-hampshire/727238/14 "2015-08-13T03:55:06Z")
When I lived in NY the story was that most of NY’s production was shipped to VT - maybe that’s what happens to NH’s.