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Hughes Maple Syrup -Bloomfield
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Paul Hughes has been producing maple syrup on five acres of land on the Bloomfield side of Talcott Ridge since 1973. Approximately 450 taps on tubes, under vacuum, flow to the sugar shed with its 2X6 wood fired evaporator and a steam-a-way. Sap enters the evaporator with a sugar content of approximately 2%. Steam billows out of the sugar shed until the sap is boiled down to 66% sugar. It is automatically drawn off when it reaches 7 degrees above the boiling point of water. Each batch is manually checked to ensure proper density has been reached. They syrup is filtered under pressure and packaged hot in glass bottles and graded according to color. From the trees on the hillside to the pure maple syrup at your breakfast table, noting ias added to produce pure Connecticut maple syrup!
