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1 In an average year, each tap-hole will produce about 10 gallons of maple sap, enough for about a quart of pure Michigan maple syrup. 2  Maple sap is a slightly sweet, colorless liquid. 3  It takes approximately 40 gallons of maple sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup.
It is no small thing to make maple syrup, however. A massive amount of sap must be collected and slowly boiled down, until the resulting syrup is reduced to 1/40th of the original volume. It takes 40 full gallons of sugar maple sap to make one single gallon of maple syrup.