Meet a maple syrup producer from Manitoba: Bob Gass – Winnipeg [Video]

“The finer the bubbles are, the closer the maple syrup is to getting finished.”

Bob Gass eyes the maple sap simmering away in his commercial evaporator. For roughly a month each spring, he works non-stop cooking the maple sap harvested from his sugar bush.

“I’m watching this all the time,” he said. “You want to get as much heat into it as you can without burning it.”

The sap bubbles on the wood-fired evaporator for about three hours before Gass finishes the process on a propane burner. Then the syrup is filtered and frozen until the end of the season, when he has it professionally bottled to sell. His is a relatively small operation, making between 300 and 500 litres of Manitoba maple syrup in an average season.

“This is from the Manitoba maple that we have growing all over the province,” he said.

Gass learned to make syrup from …