spruce beer

(Brewing) an alcoholic drink made of fermented molasses flavoured with spruce twigs and cones

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spruce′ beer`

a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.

[1490–1500]

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spruce beer - a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)

brew, brewage - drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

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Squamscot Old-Fashioned Beverages has been making non-alcoholic "spruce beer" since before the Prohibition.

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While the Jesuit Brother Ambroise is usually named as the first brewer in Canada (the Jesuits established a brewery in Sillery, Quebec, in 1647), (15) and Louis Hebert, Canada's first farmer, is claimed to have brewed beer in 1627 to celebrate a birth, (16) Canada's First Nations had already been brewing spruce beer, likely for generations.