anyone else tapping the birch trees?

[eddie hitler]

anyone else tapping the birch trees?

been out setting taps in the local silver birch trees, you get sone realy strange looks ' why is that mad bloke tapeing a plastic bottle to a tree? :shock: '

the sap is riseing very early this year


cheers EH

 

[robsan77]

good heads up. We even have daffodills out today !! :shock: in NOTTINGHAM!! :shock: :shock:

 

[spudbasher]

Can you tap daffodils?

 

[robsan77]

Can you tap daffodils?

theres a lot you can tap :party:

 

[Sean_Mc]

Not going to bother this year.

Last year I don't think I was careful enough when tapping the tree and may have introduced a mould or something when collecting. I kept skimming off the growth but it kept coming back even though I'd used a CT 24 hours before starting the ferment

 

[LewisA]

anyone else tapping the birch trees?

been out setting taps in the local silver birch trees, you get sone realy strange looks ' why is that mad bloke tapeing a plastic bottle to a tree? '

the sap is riseing very early this year


cheers EH

Sorry I'm a complete noob but what an earth to do make with birch tree sap? :lol: :rofl:

 

[Sean_Mc]

Wine Lewis, usually flavoured with lemon

 

[LewisA]

Wine Lewis, usually flavoured with lemon

No Way :shock: I'm Definitely Looking into this :lol:

 

[Vindiv8]

Any pointers on a good how to on this?

 

[eddie hitler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB648j6l4xk

gives a the basic idea :thumb:

 

[spudbasher]

Wine Lewis, usually flavoured with lemon

Sounds like what inspector Morse would say when asked what Stella tastes like.....

 

[LewisA]

Wine Lewis, usually flavoured with lemon

Sounds like what inspector Morse would say when asked what Stella tastes like.....

:lol:

 

[Sean_Mc]

:rofl:

 

[Crastney]

my brother made some last year, I didn't think the sap would be rising this early though! I'll give him a heads up.

I was a bit confused about what I read on line about tapping for birch sap though.

some sites just said drill a hole, and some were very specific about how deep to go.
obviously it's only the very outer layer of the tree that has any sap in it, as the centre of the tree is dead wood, but some places suggested that only the very outer layer had sweet sap rising to the leaves, and that if you go too deep then you get mostly just water (with no sugars, etc).

we found that we struggled to get a good seal around the tubing stuck in the hole, so the juice was dribbling down the tree trunk. maybe we should use a tap that then drips into a container

 

[ricardo]

Moniak Castle in Scotland produce a Silver Birch Wine.............