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[Loud Whispers]

I googled pine pollen and the results are a bunch of super shady "eating this stuff is the secret to a long, healthy life" kind of sites. It's also called "nature's testosterone" sometimes which doesn't make any sense. Testosterone is nature's testosterone.

Pine tea, can it exist?

[Bumblebee]

Pine tea, can it exist?

Dunno about pine tea, but I've seen tea with juniper berries, which is also coniferish and full of vitamin C. Apart from the tea, young pine (and fir) needle is very tasty.

[scrdest]

Pine needle tea is absolutely a thing. Also absurdly filled with vitamin C, apparently.

[Rolan7]

Birch beer is great.  It's nonalcoholic, basically root beer except from bark.  It has a strong taste but it really grew on me, even unsweetened.

[Bumblebee]

In Russia there's a thing called "birch sap". It is probably a bad way to translate it, but I don't have a better idea. It's liquid gum gathered in spring by cutting birch bark. Sounds exactly like your birch beer, but it doesn't ferment. Does the birch beer ferment? Is it the same as "birch sap"? And what is "root beer"?

[Pearofclubs]

In Russia there's a thing called "birch sap". It is probably a bad way to translate it, but I don't have a better idea. It's liquid gum gathered in spring by cutting birch bark. Sounds exactly like your birch beer, but it doesn't ferment. Does the birch beer ferment? Is it the same as "birch sap"? And what is "root beer"?

Root beer is a soda flavored with the roots of the sarsaparilla tree(or, at least that's what it was originally, nowadays I'm pretty sure most root beers use artificial flavors). It's got a pretty distinctive taste from other sodas.
Birch beer is the same idea, but you use the bark of the birch tree to get the flavor. It's definitely better than regular ol' root beer to me.

Neither of these are typically fermented. I'm sure someone makes hard root beer, but most of it is just a soft drink.

[Flying Dice]

Most root beers use more than sarsaparilla root, usually including wintergreen leaf, cinnamon, molasses, vanilla, and coriander. Some use various other things. But essentially it's a sarsaparilla base with a mix of spices for flavor. Good root beer is positively delicious, but you're only going to find it as a local/regional thing; all of the major stuff is just corn syrup and artificial flavors.

[Bohandas]

In Russia there's a thing called "birch sap". It is probably a bad way to translate it, but I don't have a better idea. It's liquid gum gathered in spring by cutting birch bark. Sounds exactly like your birch beer, but it doesn't ferment. Does the birch beer ferment?

No, it's not real beer. It foams like beer though.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Y61Kq

[Helgoland]

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Y61Kq

Hey, there's a picture from Bonn! From Heerstraße even, there's some great bars there.

[martinuzz]

They serve cherry liquor?

[Helgoland]

I think there are some bars there that have KiBa, which is equal parts cherry and banana juice. It's non-alcoholic though, so I'm not certain

[Bumber]

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Y61Kq

Dragonblood trees confirmed for fungiwood.

Baobab trees look totally fake. They're actually disguised radio antennae. Every last one.

Spoiler: Who do you think you're fooling? (click to show/hide)

[scrdest]

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Y61Kq

Hey, there's a picture from Bonn! From Heerstraße even, there's some great bars there.

The Bonn one and the first North Irish one are magnificent.

[Helgoland]

A large part of it is the photographer's skill: Heerstraße is nice, but doesn't look as good as that picture IRL.