'Can' is an abbreviation of 'cannister' which is defined as 'a round or cylindrical container used for storing such things as food, chemicals, or rolls of film.' Doesn't matter what it's made from, it can still be called a can. :D
Tree sap is actually not all that sugared. That is why you need a truck load of it to make a small bit of maple syrup. The birch can also be used to make syrup but you need even more than the maple to do so. I guess one “health benefit” is like coconut water tree water is a natural diarrhetic if that is an issue ;). I think I’ll stick with good ole grade B syrup for my tree liquid use.
ShinmaRyuu I think maple has something like 5 times the sugar of birch. Also I read somewhere that birch sap is harder to concentrate by boiling without burning it, because it has a different kind of sugar in the sap
AtomicShrimp I can see it being an issue just because of the high water to sugar ratio. Hard to balance evaporating the water off with out just burning the sugar to the pan kinda like cooking rice I suppose. I know from watching a few diy syrup makers here on RUclips there are a few tress you can make it from all with different flavors which is neat when you realize it’s basically controlled burning of sugar water lol.
@@AtomicShrimp You're right there - maple sap direct from the tree contains between 3% and 6% sugar by weight, depending on the exact species of maple tree you tap it from, since there are several different maples in existence today. So the raw saw does taste sweet, but no more so than coconut water, which has about 4% sugar. When you consider that commercial maple syrup is at least 60% sugar (some are as much as 80%), that shows you just how much raw maple sap you need to boil down to make the syrup, which explains how expensive it is!
I've tasted it directly from the branch - I cut a branch at a time where pruning is a poor idea, the tree immediately bled and being curious I gave it a taste. Delicious.
As a Swedish/Danish person i've never seen the "soft D" character in my life. Soft D is a sound that exists in the Danish language, realised something like the voiced dental fricative (the th-sound in then, which is different from the th-sound in thin), but that's just written with a normal letter D, and occurs whenever a syllable ends with D. It seems like they wanted to include something akin to the Danish and Norwegian letter Ø (equivalent to the letter Ö in Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic), and combined it with the letter D, creating something novel and completely meaningless. It's possible it exists in some alphabet out there, but I don't think so.
When I was a kid, I remember going somewhere with my family and trying birch beer. It was non-alcoholic, similar in taste to root beer but slightly different. My recollection is that it was really good.
Sounds interesting. Here in the U.S. they have make root beer out of birch for a couple of hundred years, and I often buy Birch Beer-( non- alcoholic)- soft drink. You can also make an alcoholic version. My friend made a run of it at about 3% alcohol.
I grew up in Estonia and we did that. Use birch water and yeast and add some raisins in. It's actually very nice. I remember as a kid, for the first week or so I was allowed to drink it, but after that it became a "grown-up drink".
So a favorite Canadian field trip is going to the sugar shacks in the spring when there making maple syrup. One of there favorite things to do is let you sample the unheated sap. Prety much that can just maple flavored.
When I used to make maple syrup we always gave the sap a taste to get an idea of how much water we were going to have to boil out of it .... on a high sugar year you could taste a tiny bit of sweetness. I'm guessing birch sap would be a bit less sweet. I have bought some birch syrup once to use as an ingredient in a salmon recipe. I went back to maple after that extravagance.
Since you mentioned honeydew/aphid excrement, did you know that ants will actually farm aphids to eat their honeydew? They'll even protect them from predators like ladybugs.
It's amazing - in fact, what might be even more amazing is that the aphids have modified their butts so that they resemble the mouthparts of an ant - in a sense, tricking the ants into thinking they are taking food from another ant - so it's not entirely clear who is farming whom
Liked for explaining that "Tåpped" isn't actually pronounced like what they intend. It annoys me when people just stick random letters into words like that.
It's really common with Cyrillic - manufacturers want to give their product a 'Russian' vibe, so they just substitute R with Я and so on. Except Я is really more like a Y sound
Maple sap is boiled down for syrup. 40 -60 gallons of sap to 1 gallon of syrup. The breaking point seems to be at 40 gallons where it is no longer cost effective.
Birch sap is under something like 2% in sugar. It also have a very faint wintergreen odor to it. The birch tree happens to make exactly the same chemical as wintergreen.
Thanks for doing this review. This product is available on amazon for $10.99 USD with "free" shipping. Not sure if you are an Amazon Affiliate but you could always pop up the link for some rev-share. I would use it. Anyway, I'm going to try this out thanks to your video.
Don't know if you still read comments left on these old videos, but listening to this after listening to recent videos, the different in audio quality is huge. Still a very interesting and informative video, though.
in deed, maybe why I was so surprised by the taste. I thought there was something wrong, quite used to drink from trees here but the taset is almost absent but quite to moderately sweet.
True - I mean, if you're out there in the woods, drinking tree sap is probably a pretty good way of just getting pure drinking water, and a tiny bit of nutrition - I just wouldn't rely on it for any kind of nutritional input
I know you make a habit of not using pull up tabs, but that foil tab pulls right off by the pointy end. Funnily enough I know that "can" from a hemp infusion. Quite tasty, and definitely a lot sweeter than birch water. They say you could get high of it, but you's have to consume a few hundred liters to do so.
My Dad used to tap the birch trees in our garden to make wine...it was quite the best of all the wines he made, which is saying something...and it was very strong too. Beautiful flavour. Where did you find this, may I ask? And how did I get here from scambaiting, LOL.
Russians also sell lots of "Birch Juice" (Beryozovy Sok), you should try using it as a mixer for strong alcohol. They also have it in 2L bottles and cheaply.
Sugar water which is just tree juice.. any health benefits need to get taken with a pinch of salt... Would that be tree salt, or would normal salt be alright? 😁
Me too, thought it was mildly scammish. Where I live there is maple water, quite sweet but just an ingredient really for MAPLE SIRUP :P which is THE Major Yummy of the glutony army. Tenhut!
I worked at a nursery (plants not babies) and they had a can of water that was fallout shelter surplus (the boss brought it in) canned water from the 40's. He didn't open it though. Maybe I missed the video, or canned water isn't weird enough for your channel? I guess it would make for a boring video now that I think it through.
If you try this product and you notice it has a slight wang taste to it then you have the rare genetic tie to the Elfin haplotype or haplogroup. It's the elf piss absorbed by the tree roots giving the water that unique and satisfyingly savoury flavor. #ListenUpFools *#ElvesRuleTheWoods*
'Can' is an abbreviation of 'cannister' which is defined as 'a round or cylindrical container used for storing such things as food, chemicals, or rolls of film.'
Doesn't matter what it's made from, it can still be called a can. :D
About what I expected: "water that's slightly tree flavored." 😂
"Tree juice"
Tree sap is actually not all that sugared. That is why you need a truck load of it to make a small bit of maple syrup. The birch can also be used to make syrup but you need even more than the maple to do so. I guess one “health benefit” is like coconut water tree water is a natural diarrhetic if that is an issue ;). I think I’ll stick with good ole grade B syrup for my tree liquid use.
ShinmaRyuu I think maple has something like 5 times the sugar of birch. Also I read somewhere that birch sap is harder to concentrate by boiling without burning it, because it has a different kind of sugar in the sap
AtomicShrimp I can see it being an issue just because of the high water to sugar ratio. Hard to balance evaporating the water off with out just burning the sugar to the pan kinda like cooking rice I suppose. I know from watching a few diy syrup makers here on RUclips there are a few tress you can make it from all with different flavors which is neat when you realize it’s basically controlled burning of sugar water lol.
@@AtomicShrimp You're right there - maple sap direct from the tree contains between 3% and 6% sugar by weight, depending on the exact species of maple tree you tap it from, since there are several different maples in existence today. So the raw saw does taste sweet, but no more so than coconut water, which has about 4% sugar.
When you consider that commercial maple syrup is at least 60% sugar (some are as much as 80%), that shows you just how much raw maple sap you need to boil down to make the syrup, which explains how expensive it is!
First time I’ve ever read the words tree juice,
Maple Syrup
Root beer, anyone?
Tree juice
There, this is your second time reading it
Natives in Canada would make tea, use it like maple syrup, ferment it for beer. That tree has a myriad uses.
I've tasted it directly from the branch - I cut a branch at a time where pruning is a poor idea, the tree immediately bled and being curious I gave it a taste. Delicious.
You more than likely killed the tree using that method
As a Swedish/Danish person i've never seen the "soft D" character in my life. Soft D is a sound that exists in the Danish language, realised something like the voiced dental fricative (the th-sound in then, which is different from the th-sound in thin), but that's just written with a normal letter D, and occurs whenever a syllable ends with D.
It seems like they wanted to include something akin to the Danish and Norwegian letter Ø (equivalent to the letter Ö in Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic), and combined it with the letter D, creating something novel and completely meaningless.
It's possible it exists in some alphabet out there, but I don't think so.
Maybe they were going for a capital eth? Ð, used in Icelandic and Faroese if I recall correctly
When I was a kid, I remember going somewhere with my family and trying birch beer. It was non-alcoholic, similar in taste to root beer but slightly different. My recollection is that it was really good.
Sounds interesting. Here in the U.S. they have make root beer out of birch for a couple of hundred years, and I often buy Birch Beer-( non- alcoholic)- soft drink. You can also make an alcoholic version. My friend made a run of it at about 3% alcohol.
I grew up in Estonia and we did that. Use birch water and yeast and add some raisins in. It's actually very nice. I remember as a kid, for the first week or so I was allowed to drink it, but after that it became a "grown-up drink".
So a favorite Canadian field trip is going to the sugar shacks in the spring when there making maple syrup. One of there favorite things to do is let you sample the unheated sap. Prety much that can just maple flavored.
It's nice frozen into ice cubes & popped in a glass of single malt whisky. One of the many things I learnt from Ray Mears.
When I used to make maple syrup we always gave the sap a taste to get an idea of how much water we were going to have to boil out of it .... on a high sugar year you could taste a tiny bit of sweetness. I'm guessing birch sap would be a bit less sweet. I have bought some birch syrup once to use as an ingredient in a salmon recipe. I went back to maple after that extravagance.
Thank you for your perspective.
It's used here up north, if you are allergic to birch pollen it's supposed to relieve you from birch allergies.
Thanks for trying that Birch juice so I won't feel compelled to run out and buy some haha
XD
Since you mentioned honeydew/aphid excrement, did you know that ants will actually farm aphids to eat their honeydew? They'll even protect them from predators like ladybugs.
It's amazing - in fact, what might be even more amazing is that the aphids have modified their butts so that they resemble the mouthparts of an ant - in a sense, tricking the ants into thinking they are taking food from another ant - so it's not entirely clear who is farming whom
@@PandemoniumMeltDown “Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, it’s forgivable to go ass to mouth.”
@@TheJunnutin "I thought so"
Buy it: no. Grow a birch tree and harvest the sap for long term self "testing": maaaybeee
You're welcome to tap a birch in our woodland next spring-I did it a couple of times but rather thin tastless stuff.
Liked for explaining that "Tåpped" isn't actually pronounced like what they intend. It annoys me when people just stick random letters into words like that.
It's really common with Cyrillic - manufacturers want to give their product a 'Russian' vibe, so they just substitute R with Я and so on. Except Я is really more like a Y sound
Even maple tree sap isnt very sweet untill its boiled down so maybe youd need to boil a ton of this down
meh
Maple sap is boiled down for syrup. 40 -60 gallons of sap to 1 gallon of syrup. The breaking point seems to be at 40 gallons where it is no longer cost effective.
we tap the birch trees every spring here. maples too. delicious.
Contains the sugar alcohol xylitol which is deadly for dogs. Used as an artificial sweetener in many products
Phewww this intro makes me feel soooooooo much better when I'm stressed!!!!!!!!!
Tree juice in a canned drink?!?!
Birch, please.
Birch sap is under something like 2% in sugar. It also have a very faint wintergreen odor to it. The birch tree happens to make exactly the same chemical as wintergreen.
Thanks for doing this review. This product is available on amazon for $10.99 USD with "free" shipping. Not sure if you are an Amazon Affiliate but you could always pop up the link for some rev-share. I would use it. Anyway, I'm going to try this out thanks to your video.
If I had a penny every time you said suggar and water ... I wouldn’t be exactly rich, but maybe I could buy a can of this stuff.
Amazing re aphids, what a great piece of trivia, you're a renaissance man!
Don't know if you still read comments left on these old videos, but listening to this after listening to recent videos, the different in audio quality is huge.
Still a very interesting and informative video, though.
Years ago I cut down a birch tree that was too close to the house and where the sap came out of the stump, there was a large clump of sugar.
Oh it's much better than anything out of the tap!
From the experience of home-made birch water, the longer it stays around, the more sour it gets.
in deed, maybe why I was so surprised by the taste. I thought there was something wrong, quite used to drink from trees here but the taset is almost absent but quite to moderately sweet.
There are micronutrients and enzymes as well that wouldn't show up on the label.
True - I mean, if you're out there in the woods, drinking tree sap is probably a pretty good way of just getting pure drinking water, and a tiny bit of nutrition - I just wouldn't rely on it for any kind of nutritional input
AtomicShrimp agreed.
Bloody hell you look like the sarin gas guy, from the ohm shin ryukio (we the spelling is) group.
Birch sap can be made into a syrup like maple syrup.
A whole 15% of your daily manganese and no other minerals? Don't think this will be setting the world on fire any time soon
I know you make a habit of not using pull up tabs, but that foil tab pulls right off by the pointy end.
Funnily enough I know that "can" from a hemp infusion. Quite tasty, and definitely a lot sweeter than birch water. They say you could get high of it, but you's have to consume a few hundred liters to do so.
Oh dude I love this stuff, birch water's tasty.
I tried this in Kyrgyzstan. Tasty drink
I love birch water!
I love that with some mint best drink after a hard night of drinking
You do know that you just drinks the blood of a birch tree. I know they say that it's water but it's still the tree blood.
So... I'm now some kind of forest vampire, right?
AtomicShrimp you're a savage
@@AtomicShrimp You might turn into an Ent!
@@zappawoman5183 "You stole it from us!"
My Dad used to tap the birch trees in our garden to make wine...it was quite the best of all the wines he made, which is saying something...and it was very strong too. Beautiful flavour. Where did you find this, may I ask? And how did I get here from scambaiting, LOL.
After all this time, I don’t think you are going to get a reply. How ruuuuude
Aw
Try adding some mint and lime juice to it, that's how they sell it here in Germany.
Putting a ceramic glaze on your car when you wash it can make it easier to clean later and protect the paint
You can go out in march and tap birch trees to drink or make wine.
Russians also sell lots of "Birch Juice" (Beryozovy Sok), you should try using it as a mixer for strong alcohol. They also have it in 2L bottles and cheaply.
Odd thing to package...I'd prefer if it came from a maple tree and you cooked it and concentrated down to a syrup xD
I know it from Eastern Europe, mixed with lemon and some mint leafs.
Sugar water which is just tree juice.. any health benefits need to get taken with a pinch of salt... Would that be tree salt, or would normal salt be alright? 😁
Only tree I want to drink is a Sequoia
Huh. Interesting.
I found this in a bottle, I honestly hated this ahaha
Me too, thought it was mildly scammish. Where I live there is maple water, quite sweet but just an ingredient really for MAPLE SIRUP :P which is THE Major Yummy of the glutony army. Tenhut!
Poor trees
I worked at a nursery (plants not babies) and they had a can of water that was fallout shelter surplus (the boss brought it in) canned water from the 40's. He didn't open it though. Maybe I missed the video, or canned water isn't weird enough for your channel? I guess it would make for a boring video now that I think it through.
i like Birch Beer
"Tohppeth" is kinda how I'd pronounce it
My thought was why pay £2 for another "can" of that, when you could visit your nearest birch on a rainy day, and lick the wet trunk? lol
No, that would just be "through moss filtered"-rainwater lol
Thank you for pointing out that appeal to nature is a logical fallacy and something being natural does not mean it will have a ton of health benefits.
So funny story.
Tåpped is closer to the English word of Topped.
As in topping someone
ÅÄÖ ÅÄÖ Från en svensk
Would be perfect if you said: I paid 1.85£ for something that you can get Tree-ly from the tap
If you try this product and you notice it has a slight wang taste to it then you have the rare genetic tie to the Elfin haplotype or haplogroup. It's the elf piss absorbed by the tree roots giving the water that unique and satisfyingly savoury flavor.
#ListenUpFools *#ElvesRuleTheWoods*
Yucky