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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPRUCE BEER

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Spruce beer is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SPRUCE BEER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Spruce beer

Spruce beer is a beverage flavored with the buds, needles, or essence of spruce trees. Spruce beer can refer to either alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages. A number of flavors are associated with spruce-flavored beverages, ranging from floral, citrusy, and fruity to cola-like flavors to resinous and piney. This diversity in flavor likely comes from the choice of spruce species, the season in which the needles are harvested, and the manner of preparation. Using evergreen needles to create beverages originated with the Indigenous peoples of North America who used the drink as a cure for scurvy during the winter months when fresh fruits were not available. It may also have been brewed in Scandinavia prior to European contact with the Americas, but French and British explorers were ignorant of its use as an anti-scurvy treatment when they arrived in North America. The fresh shoots of many spruces and pines are a natural source of vitamin C. European sailors adopted the practice and spread it across the world.

Definition of spruce beer in the English dictionary

The definition of spruce beer in the dictionary is an alcoholic drink made of fermented molasses flavoured with spruce twigs and cones.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SPRUCE BEER

Bantu beer
barley beer
beer
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bottled beer
craft beer
draught beer
ginger beer
guest beer
ice beer
kaffir beer
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light beer
Meyerbeer
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Synonyms and antonyms of spruce beer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «spruce beer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPRUCE BEER

Find out the translation of spruce beer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spruce beer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spruce beer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

云杉啤酒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cerveza de abeto
570 millions of speakers

English

spruce beer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सजाना बियर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

البيرة شجرة التنوب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ель пиво
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cerveja abeto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্প্রস বিয়ার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bière d´épinette
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bir merapikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fichte Bier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トウヒビール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가문비 나무 맥주
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Minterake bir
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

bia vân sam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்ப்ரூஸ் பீர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऐटबाज बिअर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ladin birası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

birra di abete rosso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

świerk piwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ялина пиво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bere molid
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ερυθρελάτης μπύρα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

spar bier
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

gran öl
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gran øl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spruce beer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPRUCE BEER»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spruce beer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRUCE BEER»

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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
B S P] of which they Make a liquor Called Spruce Beer. [1794] 1968 THOMAS 59 The Spruce Tree is the most prevalent wood of this Country. . . It answers for a great many purposes; of it. they have no Domestic article but what the Spruce has  ...
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
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Wines & Beers of Old New England: A How-to-do-it History
One of the favorite beers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was spruce beer. The early settlers prized it as a protection against scurvy, and it was discovered very early the "essence" of spruce could replace hops as a preservative for ...
Sanborn Conner Brown, 1978
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A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century: To ...
beer must be drank daily, and the parts affected with the eruption bathed with it night and morning.38 There is no doubt that the spruce beer at the time was fermented as in Banks' Newfoundland recipe, which was to "take a half hogshead and ...
John Crellin, Dennis B Worthen, 2004
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
(G. ; confused with F. and E.) 'Spruce-beer, a kind of physical drink, good for inward bruises;' Phillips, ed. 1 706. ' Essence of spruce is obtained from the young shoots of the black spruce fir. ... Spruce beer is brewed from this essence.
Walter William Skeat, 1898
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Pure Products
This is probably the oldest extant notice of the fact of the artificial preparation of mineral waters, although commercial artificial mineral waters are of quite recent date. SPRUCE BEER IN FRENCH CANADIAN ISLANDS (from Consul John X.
‎1912
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Daily Consular and Trade Reports
A popular beverage on the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, particularly among the bank fishermen, is spruce beer. The neighboring Newfoundlanders probably introduced this drink among the French. It has been brewed in Newfoundland ...
‎1913
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The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink
Introduced to spruce beer by the Vikings, European colonists were familiar with the beverage when they arrived in North America. Recipes for spruce beer are in the first American cookbooks. To prevent scurvy, eighteenth-century navies ...
Andrew F. Smith, 2007
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Ontario Beer: A Heady History of Brewing from the Great ...
and spruce beer. They were being brewed at the fort and, Isham noted, were preserved by burying casks of beer below the frost line, digging cellars twelve feet deep. Apart from the implication that the British were dealing in beer with their First ...
Alan McLeod, Jordan St. John, 2014
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Home Medicine: The Newfoundland Experience
In fact, by that time — toward the end of the nineteenth century — fermented spruce beer, with its pedigree of tradition, was viewed as a dietetic preparation in the same context as ginger beer or molasses beer. This underscored a wholesome ...
J. K. Crellin, 1994
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An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy ...
Spruce Beer. — This name is given to a very wholesome effervescing beer made from molasses and the extract of the spruce fir. Brown spruce beer is prepared in the following, manner: Add lo eighteen gallons of boiling water from twelve to ...
Thomas Webster, Mrs. William Parkes, David Meredith Reese, 1855

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPRUCE BEER»

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Jane Peyton interview: Britain's Beer Sommelier of the Year on …
I wish I could have gone for a drink with Jane Austen Maybe for a spruce beer, which she brewed herself. She was funny, droll, and we could have a natter about ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Ultra-Drinkable Beers Are Having a Moment
With the advent of craft brewing around the 1980s, more extreme beer flavors took ... 1776: Revolutionary War soldiers are provisioned spruce beer, thought to ... «Outside Magazine, Jan 15»
3
Canterbury beer comes up trumps
The flavoured and aged category, which Wigram won with its Captain Cook Spruce Beer, included unconventional entries containing coffee, chocolate or ... «The Press, Aug 14»
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The Delicious Rations Promised to Prospective Soldiers of the …
Spruce beer, made from the tips of spruce branches, was provided to help combat scurvy (a function it may not have performed). Advertisement. Historian ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 14»
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Here's a tip: Try spruce beer
My first introduction to spruce tip beer happened years ago when one of my formative annual darlings, Anchor Brewing Company's Our Special Ale, featured the ... «Capital city weekly, Jun 14»
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Cooking With Conifers: An Evergreen Trick That's Newly Hip
And 18th century English sailors were practically required to drink spruce beer in an effort to prevent scurvy. It didn't really work, but they enjoyed drinking it ... «NPR, Jan 14»
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Canadian brewery making beer out of Christmas trees
Garrison Brewing Company in Halifax has started producing limited edition batches of spruce beer using Christmas trees. Spruce beer is a traditional Canadian ... «UPI.com, Dec 13»
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Microbrewery taps into fresh recipes
The 41-year-old said he is talking with organizers at Fortress of Louisbourg to develop a spruce beer such as the type popular at the French bastion 300 years ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Apr 13»
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Turn Your Dead Christmas Tree Into Beer
For brewing Spruce Beer. Take four ounces of hops, let them boil half an hour, in one gallon of water, strain the hop water, then add 16 gallons of warm water, ... «Smithsonian, Jan 13»
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Don't Waste That Christmas Tree: Turn It Into Spruce Beer
The holidays are finally wrapping up. So after you repack the twinkly lights, and the tinsel goes into the trash, what should you do with that once beautiful spruce ... «NPR, Jan 13»

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