You remember that famous April Fool joke featuring the annual spaghetti harvest in Italy? It showed the Italian spaghetti farmers carefully plucking strands of young spaghetti from the spaghetti bushes. Millions of people in England believed it. Seems to me that a video about the beer trees would be just as good. The happy German peasants in their native costumes tapping the trees as the beer rises through the trees in the autumn, bringing it home in buckets, then celebrating with the Oktoberfest.
Everybody knows that beer is tapped in the fall, when the sap is flowing back down the tree trunk! It’s about the same time that the bottles are ripe for harvest.
The beer flows down the fall, and then all winter long.
But these days the German peasants are too lazy to tote wooden buckets, so they just hook up plastic tubing and let the beer flow downhill to where they fill the barrels.
“The happy German peasants in their native costumes tapping the trees as the beer rises through the trees in the autumn”
You are not far from the truth: On bus out of Munich, Germany, I saw field after field after field of beautiful yellow flowers. I asked the guide what those were and she said, “It’s hops for beer.” As far as you can see are yellow flowers which are eventually beer. So your peasants would be gathering flowers and beer would soon follow.