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Definition of Spruce beer
1. Noun. A brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruce Beer
Literary usage of Spruce beer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"1706. 'Essence of spruce is obtained from the young shoots of the black spruce fir.
. . . spruce beer is brewed from this essence. ..."
2. A History of the Island of Newfoundland: Containing a Description of the by Lewis Amadeus Anspach (1819)
"... pleasant, and very wholesome, is spruce-beer. A bough of black spruce, fresh
from the tree, is chopped into small pieces, and put into an iron pot, ..."
3. The Improved Housewife, Or, Book of Receipts: With Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1853)
"To a pail of water, add two ounces of ginger, one pin of molasses, and a gill of
good yeast. In two hours it is fit for use. 550. spruce beer. ..."
4. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"Mode of making spruce beer. The following is the method given by Du Hamel : —"To
make a cask of spruce beer, a boiler is necessary, which will contain one ..."
5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"hours, the spruce beer becomes sharp, like cider; but, if it is suffered to ...
The essence of spruce (which is what spruce beer is made from in this ..."
6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"See Spruce-beer. Spruce-beer, a kind of beer. (G. ; confused with F. ami E.)
Originally ... But the word was Englished as Spruce-beer, ie Prussian beer, ..."
7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"spruce beer, a fermented liquor made from the leaves and small branches of ...
There are two kinds of spruce beer — the brown and the white — of which the ..."
8. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"spruce beer, a fermented liquor made from the leaves and small branches of the
... There are two kinds of spruce beer—the brown and the white—of which the ..."
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