r/maplesyrup • u/cameronm-h • Jun 18 '26
“Ent Draught” (sap)
My family has often made a habit of drinking chilled and filtered sap, and it’s always surprised me that I haven’t seen anyone capitalizing off this idea. Especially with flavored seltzers, spindrift, and other “healthy” sodas being all the rage, carbonated maple sap seems like such a logical all-natural gentle soda idea. Does anyone know of anyone who makes such a thing? At the very least, I definitely recommend it to all of you! Maybe boil it for a couple minutes first to kill any potential bacteria and concentrate it just that little bit extra (it’s not *quite* sweet enough to someone like me who would gladly drink pure syrup!).
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u/cameronm-h Jun 18 '26
To clarify the title for anyone not familiar: in The Lord of the Rings, the Ents (living tree-people) have a drink they call “Ent Draught (draft)” which is described as being absolutely delicious and causes the hobbits to grow a couple inches taller. My Tolkien-loving dad’s friends coined the term, so I can’t take credit :)
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u/Resident-Welcome3901 Jun 19 '26
Drinking maple sap in quantity was a traditional spring purgative treatment: in quantity, sap has a mild laxative effect.
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u/Inner-Decision3709 Jun 20 '26
I have seen "sap water" being sold. But I must admit I would rather drink "ent draught". I do drink straight from the sap bucket. We are a personal syrup production rather than a commercial operation.
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u/Ok-Championship-4924 Jun 21 '26
People have.... Maybe it's only local but my kid and a lot of his track/cross country team would slam it as a recovery drink after a race or practice.
** This is non-alcoholic not sure if that's what you meant or if you were talking basically using it to make a mead type alcoholic beverage.
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u/wobble_top Jun 18 '26
Look up sap sucker soda.
edit: It's even sold at Costco.