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Definition of Birch beer
1. Noun. Carbonated drink containing an extract from bark of birch trees.
Definition of Birch beer
1. Noun. A sweetened, non-alcoholic, sparkling beverage with a wintergreen flavor, traditionally made from the oil of the sweet birch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birch Beer
Literary usage of Birch beer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rigby's Reliable Candy Teacher: With Complete and Modern Soda, Ice Cream and by Will O. Rigby, Fred Rigby (1920)
"birch beer SYRUP Two ounces birch beer extract, 1 gallon simple syrup. Color with
caramel color. CARAMEL SYRUP 5 pounds "C" sugar 21/2 pounds Canadian maple ..."
2. Good Things: Ethical Recipes for Feast Days and Other Days, with Graces for by Isabel Goodhue (1911)
"... to yield yourself to the intoxicating exhilaration with which the springtime
air it filled and which is especially evident in this kind of birch beer. ..."
3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"birch beer is brewed from the sweet sap. The spicy fragrance extends to the leaves
also, and a twig enables one to identify the tree at any time of year. ..."
4. Reports of Patent Cases: Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States by Hubert Ashley Banning, Henry Arden (1882)
"Ennis. called birch beer," and "consists in a mixture of water, sugar, oil of
birch, cut in alcohol, home-made yeast and burnt sugar. ..."
5. Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle by Lyman Hotchkiss] [Bagg (1887)
"... by shouting the " three-times-three 'rah of Yale," in token of my triumph, I
guzzled several bottles of his birch beer and ginger ale, in further honor ..."
6. Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle by Lyman Hotchkiss] [Bagg (1887)
"... by shouting the " three-times-three 'rah of Yale," in token of my triumph, I
guzzled several bottles of his birch beer and ginger ale, in further honor ..."
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