Wild Food Foraging- Yellow Birch Sap- The Taste of Spring! 

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What is the most effective way to store Yellow Birch sap? How long will it last? Thanks for awesome content!

Aren't you afraid bug will get into your bottles. Or, are you assuming the bugs won't have woken up that early in the season. Regards, BAG2

You should put the tap steepernso it goes with the wood facing down so none of the moisture goes down the tree and not in the bottle.

p.s. angle of the drip stick might be to flat... angled more downward would speed up the drip probably. Love your videos!

Wait, Native Americans and settlers were aware of the immune system? I find that hard to believe.

will this stuff get you fucked up or nah>?

Tapping a cold one with the boys

I love it when the beauty industry 'discovers' something that bushcrafters have known about for a couple thousand years.

I have learned years of experienced information in 1 night watching your videos. THANK YOU!

you make me wanna go outside and start cutting into trees lol

The soft stuff in the center of the branch is called pith.

Birch trees have less sugar in the sap vs maple.....very good to consume. I use the same spiels for this tree as I would for my maple trees. And birch trees have a heavier sap flow vs maple trees...about 1% sugar in the sap vs 2-5% in the maple trees...the sugar varries from tree variety and the season weather there is a drought or not in the fall previous to the spring harvest.

Drinking the blood of trees... brutal. :P

With the type of plastic water bottles he was using... why not just poke a small hole in the bottle towards the top and affix over the stick; save the trouble of having to makes sure everything is lined up properly.

2:20 you can hear a Broadwing hawk call. Nice

this video seems to be fairly "poplar"

I've wanted to eat something made from yellow birch since I was a kid - always loved the smell but never knew it was edible. I'm definitely going to try this next spring. Thanks for the info!

Just remember never to tap the same Birch tree (or any tree) twice in a row, at the very least give it a year to recover or you could kill it.

New subscriber here. I live in the northeast of the us and I plan to try tapping my own birch sap/water soon! Also making white pine needle tea. My mother didn't nickname me nature girl for no reason though I'm 27 now. ☺️🌲

you know in east Europe birch juice is something very loved and people Especially children drink it for hundreds of years

This is (or at least was) really popular in Russia

do you think the hight of the tap will have any impact?

In Soviet Russia, trees drink YOU.

In Alaska, I visited a company that made birch syrup (consistency like maple syrup, but with a very different birch flavor) and supposedly it is the largest birch syrup producer in the United States.

One day I had to eat my hand

The taste of spring. Man I hope so. LOL

is it wise to be in the woods during hunting seasons?

Cool video....thanks for sharing ! Thumbs up and sharing it. ENJOY....THE SIMPLE LIFE

was there a difference between the two?

Spring Turkey season in Missouri is a full camo deal with calls, shotgun or bow, yep I know a couple guys been hit with shot LOL only young kids and city folk make the mistake of sound shots and sometimes carry a buzzard out LOL. I just go where turkey are and start sneaking in a ever expanding circle , i sometimes pass hunters who never know I'm there and eventually 1-3 hours I sneak right into a bunch of turkey. I move very slowly when the wind blows leaves and if I don't create a sound pattern and if I can't hear me -nothing else is putting it together either, don't got to worry about sneaking up on a birch tree so I'm going to start collecting sap tomorrow.

This guys videos are great really informative

Great vid! Looked like a nice time all around!....Ben

Is the yellow birch the best birch to tap or do they all have good flavor and health benefits ? Also, where are you located ? I'd like to find the geography of where yellow birch grow. And, do you also harvest chaga mushroom off these yellow birch ?

20$ a liter?! Hell, I could sell it for half that and still mke a ton of cash.

For how long can you store it before it goes bad?

Hello I'm just curious what white birch trees can be used for

Thanks for this! Excited you came out with this video before Alaska starts to thaw :0D Just in time to give it a go up here!

I know sugar maple since we have aplenty in Quebec. I will have to try the other kinds of sap. I tried the Norwegian maple sap and nope, it taste like vegetables with a sweetness in it. Birch I suspect to taste better. Yellow birch I dunno, I have worked with that wood a lot and... sometimes it smells like piss.

I always thought sap would be much thicker

Good on you Man. Excellent video from you, thank you. From, a fellow woodsman in The States.

Never give this to dogs, cats or other pets because xylitol is extremely toxic to them.

You can carve a hook on the tap stick and hang a jar of it.

I can't tell a birch from a poplar from a maple just looking at the park

great video am going to try thanks shaz

I have a lot of yellow birch on my property. Thank you for teaching me this technique.

can you drink any tree sap? l live in southern cali

Thank u for showing us the edibles.

You make excellent quality videos!

now that's all natural!!! great video!!

Very interesting. Thank you!

THANKS the Great info. .

it takes two days to fill up one bottle the other one is water from the tree

Excellent! Hope to do this some day!

Interesting To Note, Thxs., Merci.

Very good video,s Thanks!

Hi, could you the scientific names for your yellow and white birch? I'd like to know if that's a different common name for what we call silver birch (betula pendula) here in Scotland. I'm really interested that the temperature is an indicator, I've only hear that it's the 2 weeks before the buds come out so it's often trial and error. It would be great if I could have a more of an idea exactly when it would be based on air temp. Thanks for this video :)

you are amazing and awesome!!

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Oh, that sweet sappy goodness.

Birch sap was pretty gross! I'll take sugar maple please!

Can you make it into syrup?

Hey, Found your chan and its amazing. I love going out in the forest to do the same exact thing. I also tap Paper Birch trees every year, I harvest about 50 gallons from rotating trees every other year, and then freeze the sap. I have not made any syrup yet. but my end goal is to make syrup then distil it :) thanks for sharing , keep it up ..

Good stuff! Thanks - Martin

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I wonder if I can find any type of tree in Central Europe which you can tap for sap.

I did tap for maple sap and made syrup but have no birch trees to tap....walnut trees can be tapped too.

I remember we use to eat sap

Very enjoyable and informative. For Fahrenheit to Celsius, 1 C° = 9/5F° or 1.8F°. It was taught to me as 9/5 so it’s easy to see ea. 9F°=5C° exactly as follows: 0C=32F, 5C=41F, 10C=50F, 15C=59F, 20C=68F, 25C=77F, 30C=86F, 35C=95F, 40C=104F. These as the whole number equivalents. The sub-freezing equivalents then follow as: -5C=23F, -10C=14F, -15C=5F, -17.78C=0F, -20C=-4F, -25C=-13F, -30C=-22F, -35C=-31F, -40C=-40F. Only at -40 are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal. Celsius Times 1.8 plus 32 = Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit minus 32 divided by 1.8 = Celsius.

Just subscribed. Awesome videos

I live in ohio,got to try this !!! Thank you !!!!

In the bush? Those are woods son. Let the Aussies have their bush.

You should also try Birch Sap, e.g Birch sap Basil Smash cocktail or Birchijto (virgin mojito with Birch sap) etc, I had a taste of one of them at La Fete Des Vignerons few days back. Was delicious. Also one of the bottled versions I tried was Rhubarbie 🥰 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y7Y71-SpKsA.html

Maple sugar is a 40/1 ratio ,(40 gal sap = 1 gal syrup ). I've not tapped birtch, yet , but is it true the ratio is 100/1 ? At that rate I hope the tree violently explodes like a starburst candy commercial!

I had no idea you could tap birch trees. We have more than enough here on my reserve.

Me: Hi RU-vid Captions: SAP

Great. Now at least 25,000 of your viewers have decided they would go try to make money by tapping the birch trees in wild areas, and aren't doing it right and are killing the trees. This seriously happened--a bunch of crack heads decided they would try to find truffles and they destroyed the forests by harvesting like the chinese harvest truffles.

Why in the name of God would you think you would see a couple of turkeys because it is Turkey season lol that's kind of a strange prerequisite. Typically the rule of thumb is if it's a season for any specific game that's when you don't ever see them

Have you ever cooked Birch syrup? If you have, how does the taste compare to finished Maple syrup?

All the birch trees around here died during a particularly harsh winter. This might not have been so bad had they not been so bloody scarce in the first place. The few you still see were planted years later, and only for landscaping. Ain't gonna be able to tap the ones in the park for very long. At least just about everything else that grows around here is edible and rarely dangerous...

We have a few pine trees coming down near me. can I extract the sap from the tree/ how? I don't have much time to get the sap out and the trees will not be salvaged so if the best/ fastest way to get the sap is destructive it won't matter. Please let me know if you have any advice.

I definitely thought you were making up the word "spile" and boy was i wrong.

He looks like novritch

In Canada, the First Nations people would harvest birch syrup. The early Ukrainian settlers would also harvest the birch syrup.

Good to know

New fan ... love the videos..can you tap any trees ..fr Nova Scotia 🇨🇦

first lol outsider I love you videos

Could you boil this down for syrup too?

You didn't mention whether or not the 2 different colors tasted differently.

Now all i have to do is plant a yellow birch and wait 40 years.

Can you do this with any birch ie silver and brown?

Really enjoyed your dideos.. new sub here. We're going to try making some yellow birch syrup as well as some maple syrup.. maybe we'll video it for our channel to share too.

It would take a lot, but could you condense it into a sweet syrup like maple?

Hunger games getting water/liquids from trees

Now how do you get it to be clean without anything being or going in the bottle.

I have the same axe. It's awesome.

+Outside Fun 1 . ~ . Hi I'm a Canadian & grew up with a farm with a 50 acre sugar bush thus grew up with maple syrup on tap. Just planted some silver/white birch today on our farm. Can you please tell us if the "yellow" refers only to the sap colour of the birth tree or is there some "yellow birch" vs white or silver birch? I would otherwise imagine its just called birch sap vs "yellow"...

So are you able to tap white birch or just yellow?

So this could never be done in Florida?

Does the sap taste good. Sorry i don't know