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Anyone know how to make Silver Birch Sap wine as my grandad used to make it and if i remember it was bloomin lovely.

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You,re too late for this year,Cloud. You need to tap the trees in early Spring as the sap is rising.
You will need a length of plastic tube and a 1 gallon fermenting jar.
Bore a hole into the birch bark, making sure you don't go too far into the wood. The hole would have to be the same diameter as your plastic tube.
In March you should be able to fill a jar in a couple of days.
Boil your birch sap for half an hour along with some thinly peeled orange and/or lemon rind.
Make back up to 1 gallon with water and add a bag of sugar and half a pound or so of chopped raisins then carry on fermenting etc. as normal.
PLEASE though remember to plug the hole in the birch with a cork or something. If you don't the tree may bleed todeath!

Hi Cloud, check these out.
Lady of the woods - the birch
Nick Truman's Ferrari and Wine Making Website
Collecting Birch Sap Wild Food Cooking and Recipes

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good Diggin, Chuffa.

There was discussion earlier in the year about this here.

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Hazel
www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com
update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

please remember you MUST seal the hole with a tight fitting WOOD BUNG and cut off level
with the bark or as polly made clear the tree willbleed to death or become infected
laurence