EXAMPLE - Tap hole was drilled into a tree of any species that was assumed to produce sap. The tap hole was 5/16 inch in diameter and two inches deep. A plastic spout was snugly inserted into the tap hole to prevent sap from leaking around the spout. One end of a length of flexible polymer tubing was securely attached to the spout. Other trees were tapped and connected to tubing in a similar manner. The ends of these lengths of tubing not connected to spouts terminate inside a common collection container sized large enough to collect all the sap estimated to flow from the tapped trees. The container was placed lower in elevation than all of the spouts to allow the sap to travel by gravity into the collection container. The tubing from the spouts was installed in a straight line to prevent sags that would result in the entrapment of sap in the sag. When the atmospheric conditions are appropriate, tree sap begins to run. Some of the sap from each tree runs through the collection tubing and into the collection container. Once sap begins to be collected in the container it was pumped through a reverse osmosis (RO) filter and concentrated to a sugar content of fifteen percent. The concentrated sap discharged from the RO filter was directed into a fermentation vat consisting of a 55-gallon plastic drum. The drum was refrigerated to 40 degrees F until full of concentrated sap. When this drum was full, the discharge of the RO filter was directed to an empty drum until it was filled. Once full of sap, yeast was added to each drum to begin the fermentation process, the drum was sealed to prevent air from entering, and a water-trap vent was installed on the top of the drum to permit expanding gases to escape the drum. The fermentation process continues for several days to completion. The resultant ethanol/water solution was pumped from a fermentation vat into a distillation system. In the distillation process, the solution was heated to 180 degrees F. This temperature was above the boiling point of ethanol, but below the boiling point of water. The ethanol in solution was boiled out of the water into its gaseous form. The gaseous ethanol was condensed in a separate stage of the distillation system. The condensed (liquid) ethanol was then collected in a final container at 99.5% ethanol, 0.5% water.