sugarhouse
noun
sug·ar·house
ˈshu̇-gər-ˌhau̇s 
: a building where sugar is made or refined
specifically
: one where maple sap is boiled and maple syrup and maple sugar are made
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Free sugarhouse tours and tastings.
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Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
Foodies won’t want to miss the Mud & Maple Adventure Dinner at the sugarhouse on April 1.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2023
The sugarhouse is too small to have other people inside and maintain a safe distance but French doors built into it allow people to see the process from outside, Stanley said.
—Lisa Rathke, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
For a list of participating sugarhouse and their hours, visit ctmaple.org/maple-weekend.html.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2021
Burns, an employee with the Geauga County Park District, is hard at work with her colleagues inside the sugarhouse during the Sap's-a-Risin'!
—Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
Up the road from the white clapboard farmhouse and red dairy barn is Jacques Couture’s sugarhouse.
—Jason Wilson, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
As sap gushes into the sugarhouse, its first stop is to undergo reverse osmosis to extract water, which significantly cuts down the sap’s boiling time, reducing fuel and increasing efficiency.
—Jason Wilson, sacbee, 24 Apr. 2018
For weeks now, sap has been flowing through these tubes into 10 tanks, each holding 7,000 gallons, at the Runamok Maple sugarhouse, a block of a building that looks more like a small factory than the shedlike shacks of New England lore.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2018
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Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
Foodies won’t want to miss the Mud & Maple Adventure Dinner at the sugarhouse on April 1.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2023
The sugarhouse is too small to have other people inside and maintain a safe distance but French doors built into it allow people to see the process from outside, Stanley said.
—Lisa Rathke, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2021
For a list of participating sugarhouse and their hours, visit ctmaple.org/maple-weekend.html.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2021
Burns, an employee with the Geauga County Park District, is hard at work with her colleagues inside the sugarhouse during the Sap's-a-Risin'!
—Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
Up the road from the white clapboard farmhouse and red dairy barn is Jacques Couture’s sugarhouse.
—Jason Wilson, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
As sap gushes into the sugarhouse, its first stop is to undergo reverse osmosis to extract water, which significantly cuts down the sap’s boiling time, reducing fuel and increasing efficiency.
—Jason Wilson, sacbee, 24 Apr. 2018
For weeks now, sap has been flowing through these tubes into 10 tanks, each holding 7,000 gallons, at the Runamok Maple sugarhouse, a block of a building that looks more like a small factory than the shedlike shacks of New England lore.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2018
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sugarhouse
noun
sug·ar·house
ˈshu̇g-ər-ˌhau̇s
: a building where maple sap is boiled to make maple syrup and maple sugar
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