spruce beer
a fermented beverage made with spruce leaves and twigs, or an extract from them.
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How to use spruce beer in a sentence
I told th' ole woman that spruce beer ain't so good as usual this brewin'.'
Cedar Creek | Elizabeth Hely WalsheAmherst thought that spruce beer was a remedy against scurvy and made great quantities of it.
Ben Comee | M. J. (Michael Joseph) CanavanTwo men were appointed to brew spruce beer; and the carpenter and his crew were ordered to cut wood.
In addition to this medicine I drank, as my common beverage with my meals, spruce beer.
Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus DarwinOthers were employed to brew spruce-beer, as pine-trees abounded here.
British Dictionary definitions for spruce beer
an alcoholic drink made of fermented molasses flavoured with spruce twigs and cones
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