Wengert's Sugar Shack

Looking for a unique gift for that sweet tooth on your list? Try some of our flavored maple syrups. We have vanilla bean, cinnamon, and bourbon flavored bottles to choose from. We also have maple cream available in half and one pound containers.

And just like that, we have to remove tubing from our largest sugar bush and move to another land owner. Property has changed ownership and was unable to continue tapping there. The disadvantage of not owning your own trees. Should be able to have the new lines run and be ready by the end of November.

Loaded up and heading to the Edmeston Farm Market. Come on out for your fix of sweet treats!

We will have a full maple product line for the upcoming Edmeston farm market on Saturday the 26th. We now have maple cream in half and 1 pound containers along with our flavored and plain syrup. Swing in for some sweet treats and check out all the other vendors while you're there.

16.5 pounds of pure maple cream! Fresh out of the machine and ready to be sold. Let us know if you need any while it lasts. Great smooth cream.

Next 5 gallons of goodness heating up to be bottled. Smells very delicious in here.

Beautiful new signs for our businesses when we sell at markets. These are white aluminium with vinyl letters. Made by Eric and Allison Jensen of Jensen Print Shop from Edmeston N.Y.

Wengert's Sugar Shack will be at the Edmeston farm market this Saturday. Stop by and sample our regular and flavored maple syrups. Products will be available for purchase. At the 4 corners across from the bank.

53 bottles of bourbon barrel aged maple syrup bottled up tonight. Working on seals, labels on next! Let us know if you would like a bottle 12.7oz/375 ml for $20!

Seasoned wood all stacked inside for the 2021 season. Full to the roof! Now to stack the new load of green wood outside to dry for 2022. Lots of work but good dry seasoned wood make all the difference during boiling.

Line washing day. Pushing cleaning solution uphill to rinse and sanitize the lines for the summer months to help cut down on bacteria growth. The new pump did a great job pushing the large elevation change to cut down on splices.

Cleaning up. Bulk tank, collection tanks washed, and evaporator is rinsed and filled with cleaning solution. Our season came in under last years. Earlier start and earlier finish. Called it quites with sugar content so low. Just wasting firewood. We processed more sap this year, 3,815 gallons. Made a total of 48.75 gallons, including 5 gallons of bourbon syrup that is aging. These numbers put us at an average of 1.1% sugar, 78:1. From what we hear we are not... the only ones with low sugar. It turned out to be one of our best flavored syrup seasons right to the end. After a final count, we drilled 174 taps in this year with our 3/16's cdl tubing. First year of no buckets. Definitely cuts down on our labor. Time to shift gears, finish cleaning up and reload the wood room. Thanks for everyone's support and to Greg Wengert for the help during preseason prep and boiling. See more

Last boil of the 2020 maple season. 250 gallons of sap to boil today. Time to clean up. Let us know if there is anything you need and we will do our best to make a "clean" sale.

I'm being inspected this morning. Quality control says it's great still. Syrup sample, coffee, and cartoons.

Only one of our sugar bushes is running. Clear and fast! Can not believe that the syrup got lighter tonight. A beautiful medium amber and what a taste! Thought about ending this weekend but we will carry on with good runs and color like this. What better to be doing while keep your distance than making natures sweetener.

Still rolling here! Sap flow slow but enough to boil. A great tasting dark amber. Fingers and toes crossed that this freeze up resets everything for the week to help out our numbers. The funny thing is today last year was our first boil of the season! And now in 2020 we are close to ending. What a wacky year.

All this warm weather is great but without the cold nights to reset the trees, our sap production has been a little slow the last few days. Still running well in our colder sugar bush giving us enough to boil each night. Weather looks better Friday night and this weekend to kick things into action again.

Syrup darkened up today so took advantage and filled our bourbon barrel. Now it can age. Smelled so good in here from the vapors. Low sap flow today with the cool temps and breeze. Early night to go get in the house and kick back. Looks like more big runs are coming again!

Not the greastest of runs without freezing nights but it is still running! Making a really nice medium amber tonight. Should run better tomorrow.

Great run today. Sap flowed like crazy all night. Was able to get out of work early today. Gathered sap and was boiling by 12:30. 445 gallons of sap and canned up 6 gallons over a 9 hour boil. Thanks Greg for the help boiling and gathering. Time for bed and grab more sap early in the morning.

Boiling so good had to call in the reserves to help bottle and ready fire wood.

This thing is cooking today! Hot stack temp. Creekside Welding and Machine 2x6 mule kicking it in the butt!

We are boiling! 300 gallons of sap to boil.

Sparks are flying and syrup is heating to be bottled. Great night boiling.

Abby keeping track of production and keeping warm by the fire tonight <3

Rolling maple gold tonight!

My dinner crew. Love the picnic table to hang around.

Finally! First draw of 2020! Forgot how long it can take to concentrate the first batch.

Just over 200 gallons to boil in tonight. Cold out but boiling great.

First boil of 2020! Only 130 gallons of sap but its a start. Working out all of the first night hiccups. So far if it could it did go wrong but running smooth now. Great night to sweeten the pans so we will be ready for the next big run.

Everything is ready! Really cold start to Friday and today did not help anything. The lines are starting to thaw from the warm sun, but the cool breeze is holding the temperature back. Fingers crossed for the start of sugaring 2020 Sunday.

New equipment came today! An electric filter/bottler to help warm syrup up when we bottle when not boiling. This should really help speed things along and simplify the process.

Come out and support a great cause and get a chance to win some delicious maple products too! Basket Bingo, Edmeston Firehouse, February 8th at 6pm!

Spicy maple bourbon salmon....thanks Paula-Mark.

Well, we are all tapped for the 2020 syrup season. Decided to tap 3 weeks earlier than past years. With the use of all 3/16's tubing, we can and not have to worry about the holes sealing over. With the temperatures up and down, we should be able to catch a run or two over the next few weeks to help out season totals. Ready to boil!

Almost time. Clean up in the sap house and tap the trees.

Was a productive weekend in the woods. Greg and I were able to repair and replace squirrel chewed sap lines and run a new line of 30 more taps. New Fed guidelines don't permit us to use our metal buckets anymore. Not to many tears shed, only had 25 in use and they were a lot of work for a small return. Trying to streamline our gathering process a little more this year to get sap to the sugar house faster. Always improvements to be made! Planning to tap around Feb 1st. Earlier than normal for us but we need the extra time and the way the weather is, the season could end early. We will post updates as the season gets closer. Thank you to all our loyal customers!

Maple bourbon shrimp......thanks Paula-Mark Wengert! Deliciousness is served!

Christmas sale! Pick up some infused maple syrup or bourbon barrel aged maple syrup for $18 a bottle! Great stocking stuffer! We now accept credit cards.

Small Business Saturday. Come out and support your locals today! Wengert's Sugar Shack will be at Owl and Moon Today, 9 - 4 with samples and product for sale.

Wengert's Sugar Shack will be at The Owl and Moon tomorrow. Come on out and try some of our delicious maple products. We will have our regular and flavored syrups along with our maple cream to try and for sale. Stop by, say Hello and maybe pick up a gift for that tough to shop for person, or maybe just a treat for yourself!

We have a driveway! After 10 years of being in this saphouse we finally made a drier route to get sap out there. So happy for it and love the results. Thanks to brother Ray for the equipment use.

Our line of products here at Wengert's Sugar Shack. Maple syrup is available in half gallons, quarts, and pint size containers. Also available is our cinnamon and vanilla bean infused syrups along with our bourbon barrel aged syrup. The flavored syrups go great on ice cream, or as a flavored sweetener for tea, coffee, or oatmeal. Maple cream is very popular as a spread for toast or for those of us that just like a spoon full from time to time. Available in 1/2 and full pound containers. Let us know what you would like. Shipping is available. Or stop by if you would like to try any of these products we offer.

We are setup! Stop by Owl and Moon festival today and see all the different vendors and try some ofbour syrup products.

Wengert's Sugar Shack will be at the Owl and Moon festival Saturday from 9 to 4. We will have samples of all our syrups and maple cream available to try and purchase. Stop by, say hi, try some maple products and look at all the venders products.

Camping this long holiday weekend? Don't forget the maple syrup! What's pancakes or waffles for breakfast without fresh NY made maple syrup. Stop by and pick some up on the way.

Spring is in the air and the Sugar Shack is nearly cleaned up for the season. Remember to message us with your Maple Syrup needs or call or text to let us know what you would like! We have Cinnamon Infused, Vanilla Infused, Bourbon Barrel Aged(all 12.7oz/375ml glass bottles, as well as Half gallons, Quarts, and Pints of Pure Maple Syrup available. Don't forget the Maple Cream! We also ship, just let us know what you would like and we will get you a quote!

And so it comes to an end, stack is capped. Wengert's Sugar Shack has finished off the last of the syrup to boil and canned up today. Though the sap is still running, it has started to turn in taste marking the end of our season. A few really long nights, even shorter hours of sleep, made for a record setting season! Here is what the numbers "boiled down" to. We finished out the year with a record 67 gallons of syrup made from 3588 gallons of sap collected. This makes u...s have an average of 53.5 gallons of sap to 1 gallon syrup, with an average of 1.6% sugar content. Ending the season with 20.7 gallons of sap per tap, .38 gallons of syrup per tap. We are super excited with these numbers. Even more with the performance of our new evaporator with a peak of 50 gph evaporation rate. Sure beats the old 25 gph we had years past. We didn't make any really light syrup this year and the sugar sand made filtering a never ending battle but we beat it all with great tasting syrup. A huge thank you to a few special people who helped get this season tied together for us. Greg , Ray, and Chris Wengert for making an icey journey to Pa to pick up this rig, and for the fast installation. And again to Greg for help with tubbing installation on a few hand chilling days, and boiling assistance while learning the operation of the new rig. And who could for get my wife Paula for spending money on everything I thought we needed and trip after trip to get supplies, it made the final product a very enjoyable one. Thanks again to all and we look forward to serving any and all with your maple needs. See more

A great view to the end of a beautiful spring day.

Rolling maple gold tonight. Sap still running great so we are taking it. Already set new record for production. Going out in style this year! 400 gallons of sap tonight.

At it again! Sugar snow last night. Sap ran great! Be here most of the afternoon if anyone wants to stop by. Give a text, message, or call to check in incase.

Watched pot never boils....

11:30pm and still rolling! About 5 gallons in the barrel. Roughly 125 gallons to go. Gonna have to pull the plug soon.

Management is on site tonight. Evi and Paula are tending the fire. Making syrup at Polka Paula's! Lol

Filling the bourbon barrel while i can. Smells sooooo good in here!

462 gallons! Gonna be a long night. Stop by and check it out. Season going to be over really soon.

Evi is resting up for the long haul, 2nd shift.

Clean up night. A little cold to kick the sap into running well. Cleaned up the evaporator and bottled up some syrup. Enjoying a night inside, gonna be busy looking at the forecast.

My helper and trainee. The Shark!

Preheater is kicking this thing into over drive. 2pm and only 80 gallons of sap left.

Steam is rolling today. Playing catch up after the big run we had. Didn't boil to late last night with the snow expected and having to work this morning. Cleaning up what sap is left and taking a break tonight. Looks to be a busy week ahead! Feel the burn! Lol

Boiled till just past midnight with Paula. Made about 6 gallons, and still have more sap to boil. Called it a night at 12:3, back up for work at 4am. Hoping for an easy day but I think mother nature has other plans. Still a warm 32, bet sap ran all night and will all day. Cha ching!

We are rolling here tonight! Flooded with sap! 422 gallons to boil in. Gonna be a long night. And it is still flowing hard. Finally a great run.

One year ago. Things sure have changed for the better. More room, no dripping roof, and no smoke. Just need more sap.

Some of the crew keeping track of operations.