“When Latvians drink birch sap, it’s a sign of spring coming,” says Ervins Labanovskis. It’s been consumed here for centuries; folk songs reference the birch tree’s alleged magical and medicinal ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Latvian) DEVELOPER AND CEO OF 1NCE LATVIA, JANS JELINSKIS, SAYING:"Everybody has experienced a situation when the sap flowed over the edge (of the container), or the container was in the ...

BALTEZERS, Latvia (Reuters Life!) - Gourmet chef Martins Ritins holds up a jar filled with a crystal clear liquid and says "wow" after taking a sip. Like many people in Latvia and other northern and ...

FAIRBANKS — A glistening on the tips of the birch branches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus told Jan Dawe that it was time to tap another tree Wednesday morning. From a distance, birch ...

Yesterday’s sparkling water is today’s coconut water is tomorrow’s … birch tree sap? Birch water, a waterlike sap tapped from birch trees, is the latest beverage to join an alternative water market ...

First-of-its-kind business reports growing interest for its products, which are made with sap sourced in the Adirondacks Hannah Sheehan holds a bottle of Birch Raisin Wine with Spice. The front door ...