Birch Sap News

[squeezy weazel]

anybody got any good tutorials on tapping?
we can keep that in with what we have here too.
downy buds are showing their fur atm and the silver birches are starting to bud too!
can't wait to try my first tap!
pete

Have a look here http://www.bushcraftstuff.com/how-to-tap-birch-sap/589/

Hope that helps.

 

[MartinK9]

Finally, the sap is rising here in my part of Pork Pie Land

 

[daveyc]

Hello people!
Has anyone successfully tapped a sycamore? How was it?
Many thanks for a great thread

 

[ocean1975]

Tapped my first birch tree today, collected half a litre in five hours, was surprised how quick it came out.Thing is i suffer from hay fever and discovered when i drank it my eyes itched and i started sneezing. Can this happen or was it just coincidence?????

 

[Scrimmy]

Me and dad went a drilled two and bunged to tonight, sap was flowing out, go back in the moring to see how much weve got. Were planning to make wine with ours, cheers Cain

 

[Scrimmy]

Finally, the sap is rising here in my part of Pork Pie Land

I like this, simple but effective

 

[MartinK9]

I like this, simple but effective

Thank Pablo, I knicked it from his tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY-p...C7FF0FE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=129

 

[Scrimmy]

Does anybody know the sell by date of the sap? cheers Cain

 

[Scrimmy]

Thank Pablo, I knicked it from his tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY-p...C7FF0FE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=129

What knot is that holding the bottle to the tree?

 

[MartinK9]

What knot is that holding the bottle to the tree?

You'll have to ask Pablo on that one.

As for mine it was tied off with a knot called A onehanded bodge it

No excuse really, but; I was on my own, trying to hold the bottle and tie off at the same time

 

[Scrimmy]

A onehanded bodge it

No excuse really, but; I was on my own, trying to hold the bottle and tie off at the same time

fair enough

 

[shep]

Finally got out today and got me some of the taste of this year's Spring. Ahhhh.

Tapped my first birch tree today, collected half a litre in five hours, was surprised how quick it came out.Thing is i suffer from hay fever and discovered when i drank it my eyes itched and i started sneezing. Can this happen or was it just coincidence?????

Lots of people's hay fever is caused by tree pollen so I guess it's possible you're alergic to the sap too.

 

[webbie]

any-one now if its too late to tap into trees on the west coast of scotland?

cheers

webbie

 

[Tye Possum]

Sap isn't flowing here yet... I'm going to try again in a few days though.

 

[xav_B]

Hi noob here,
i've been living in croatia bout a year and a half and hayfever here is hardcore. i'm allergic to birch pollen, and i hear birch sap might be the cure... and i'm desperate! Its april now already tho, quite late for tapping... But there r mountains an hour away, and if there are bald trees or even still snow there, does that mean i can still stick a straw in any white barked tree and start drinking?