Canadian maple syrup.

[jguerin]

Costo around this time of the year have canadian maple syrup, any one saw it yet?

Thanks

J. Guerin

[Fred Habacht]

We bought a can....but there were only a few left in one case in the space that is usually full...maybe we got some of last year's.

Fred Habacht

[Floradude]

I was there Wednesday and could not find any. I always look but have not seen any for more than a year.

[Floradude]

I should also say I have never seen salted butter.

[Wheels]

I should also say I have never seen salted butter.

they have it today, in a 12 pack.

[elrich]

Was the salted butter Kirkland or a Mexican brand????

[Aquaponicsman]

We buy salted butter at Walmart and Super Lake. It is in a yellow 4-stick box or yellow wrapper 1/2 box stick and of course, yellow wrapper single sticks. The name-brand is Mantequilla "Gloria".

[lcscats]

Superrama has maple syrup a couple of weeeks ago.

[Floradude]

The Costco on Vallarta did not have salted Kirkland butter last Wednesday. I know about the other brands of salted butter at Lakeside and I use some of them.

Is the maple syrup at SuperRama pure Maple Syrup or artifically flavored? We want the 'real' stuff.

[lcscats]

The Costco on Vallarta did not have salted Kirkland butter last Wednesday. I know about the other brands of salted butter at Lakeside and I use some of them.

Is the maple syrup at SuperRama pure Maple Syrup or artifically flavored? We want the 'real' stuff.

Real and when you see the price you will know LOL.

[george]

Just paid 110 pesos for 500ml jug at Superlake. "Heritage Yamaska" m Plessisville Quebec...Got desperate.

[Chooch57]

Havent seen any sirop d erable at Costco last year either?

[R2D2]

I am looking for real maple syrup.

Have not found any at costco so far.

How can you tell if you are getting the real maple syrup? Only by the price? Any brands recommended?

Thx

[ajijicis4me]

We buy salted butter at Walmart and Super Lake. It is in a yellow 4-stick box or yellow wrapper 1/2 box stick and of course, yellow wrapper single sticks. The name-brand is Mantequilla "Gloria".

Absolutely horrible Mexican butter that tastes weird unless you have no taste buds.

[ComputerGuy]

I am looking for real maple syrup.

Have not found any at costco so far.

How can you tell if you are getting the real maple syrup? Only by the price? Any brands recommended?

Thx

By the price, for sure, but the containers also state unequivocally whether it's the real thing (as in pure maple syrup), and where it's made, so if it says Quebec or Vermont, and it's imported here, it's gonna be real. I bought some Mrs. Butterworth's the other day on sale at SuperLake, and it doesn't say anything like that; heck, it doesn't even say maple. But it works in times of no availability.

Three-quarters of the world's supply comes from Quebec, and from all reports there and in Vermont and Connecticut, it appears to be a banner year. So folks NOB should expect clear, light syrup at a good price. Here, the CostCo stuff comes in, and it's good, but the jugs are not clear for previewing and I have no idea what quality level they buy.

[artsnob]

Chedrau markets have the real Maple Syrup, and also Salted butter, I buy it from their Mex City stores but they should have it in GDL also

[Canamex]

I haven't seen maple syrup at Costco's for more than two years. Last time was, I believe, 2011. I look every time and yesterday again - none (at the Lopez Mateos store). Superama, Superlake, Goiti and La Casita on Terranova usually have bottles, but the prices are ridiculous.

Colour is no indication of maple syrup quality - the lighter the colour, the longer it's boiled. When I go to maple syrup farms in Ontario, I always buy the darkest one that is considered cooking grade because it has the strongest flavour and is least sweet - boiled the least time (I've watched the process and had the details explained to me). These syrups are "terroir" - meaning they come entirely from the same locale or farm and have certain characteristics of the soil and climate of that location. I'd almost rather sample maple syrup than wine.

What people usually buy and the only type available in Mexico is from pooled resources from Eastern Canada. I can't speak for the small quantity produced in the US or how it's managed. The grading system is different from that used within Canada. The most reasonable price here in the past was at Costco - the syrup was very real, nothing fake, but almost certainly from pooled resources, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as we can get it!

Watch out for junk like Log Cabin, Aunt Jemimah etc. it's mostly high-fructose corn syrup flavoured with who knows what chemicals. It doesn't even have the right texture.

[Ferret]

There IS real Maple Syrup in Superlake. They have moved it all to the END of aisle (pointing towards the back of the store) of the section where it USED to be. I know, I hate it when they move stuff too. Anyhoo, there's three different brands there...expect to give up your firstborn to purchase a bottle.

[ComputerGuy]

Colour is no indication of maple syrup quality - the lighter the colour, the longer it's boiled. When I go to maple syrup farms in Ontario, I always buy the darkest one that is considered cooking grade because it has the strongest flavour and is least sweet - boiled the least time (I've watched the process and had the details explained to me).

Interesting. I can find no reference to corroborate your statement. I worked on a sugarbush, and as far as I know the colour depends on the time of year the sap runs, how fast it runs, and how warm it gets. The sooner, the lighter... the later, the darker. You may be thinking that the slower, darker stuff needs to sugared longer (boiled down more) to get the equivalant amount of syrup.

All syrup is graded from extra light/amber to dark/Grade C, (Canada/U.S., different names but with the same meaning) with the lightest colour (more light shines through the actual goo) being the lightest tasting, and the darkest being used for cooking and baking.

[Canamex]

I only know what the maple farm people (White Meadows) showed me, demonstrating the process through their vats and cookers, and what they explained to me - but you may well be right that the different seasons produce different colours. Temperature is also a factor and it's certainly colder in Quebec than in Southern Ontario, but terroir is also important - it's just that most of what is sold in stores is the mixed stuff. I was at that farm for their March pancake weekend, where you can use as much maple syrup as you want and refill as often as you want for just the cost of the first pancakes.

I happen to like the darkest grade best because it is the most "mapley" but I understood that it was the least boiled down, not the most. So quality for me is not about the colour. Whatever, it's a shame it's not available at a more reasonable price here. That's what was good about Costco's syrup, it was the most reasonable price around by far.

[Irish Gal]

Three-quarters of the world's supply comes from Quebec, and from all reports there and in Vermont and Connecticut, it appears to be a banner year. So folks NOB should expect clear, light syrup at a good price. Here, the CostCo stuff comes in, and it's good, but the jugs are not clear for previewing and I have no idea what quality level they buy.

Husband just brought back 1 litre jug of Ontario maple syrup from Costco in Canada. Price $12.49 CDN. Better than a dozen roses!

[ComputerGuy]

I had never heard of terroir being used on syrups, especially at any sugar bush, but perhaps it's just because the guys doing the tasting didn't think of it that way. It's a wine thing, for sure... and when we get it in a jug or can, there's no appellation, lol. Wouldn't it be interesting: syrup tastings. You'd get a buncha cans and sit and slurp. But of course at a winery there are a variety of wines; at a sugarbush, the "variety" is not really intentional.

Last time I bought CostCo syrup was in 2010, and at the same time my brother brought down a can of syrup from Quebec. We taste-tested, although not "blind", and as I recall the Quebec stuff was a little sharper, more mapley. But they both tasted the same on a stack... lol.

I used that Butterworth's on french toast yesterday, and it sure was better than the Mexican brands of syrup. Not like the real thing, but smooth and not overbearing. I, too, would like to see the real thing appearing soon at CostCo, because now that I think about it, it has been quite a while.