Birch juice looks like water, almost tastes like water (be it a bit sweeter) and after you drank it, you get the impression it wasn’t exactly water…

Like water: it’s good for your kidney’s, just that you don’t have to drink as much water as you drink birch juice to have the same effect.

Each tree gives about 1 bottle a day, and that’s more or less your daily intake of fluids.

If you do happen to have a birch forest, you could sell the birch juice to those health shops, reform shops and organic shops… Ok, seems my mind is still in the corporate world

I am not such an alcohol lover, although I used to make wine and beer (buying is much faster and easier, not to mention better). In my younger student days we used to make some alcohol out of wine, and now being retired, I think it’s safe to mention

But every year I will make sure I get myself my fresh portion of birch juice.

Birch beer first phase: get the juice!

It all starts by tapping the juice from the birch tree…

Far the easiest way is taking a twig, cutting it and putting it in a bottle. It cannot get any easier and the tree isn’t that damaged in the process!