Maple Syrup

[lilacben]

I have just made some american pancakes and bouth some maple syrup to put on them. Can someone please tell me why in America when you have them they taste really nice, the maple syrup is beautiful. But over here the syrup is thin and quite tasteless.?

[Clanad]

Real maple syrup here in the U.S. is often blended with cane sugar syrup or even molasses for added flavor and texture. Honest to goodness pure maple syrup from New England, (my favorite is from Brattelboro, Vermont) is thin and the taste is acquired. It tends toward a slightly acidic or bitter aftertaste, depending on the forest from which it was harvested...