spruce beer

noun

: a beverage flavored with spruce
especially : one made from spruce twigs and leaves boiled with molasses or sugar and fermented with yeast

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Flavors range from classics including root beers, colas and cream sodas to unique flavors such as spruce beer, bacon, marionberry, celery and pickle sodas. Joyce Smith, kansascity, 8 Sep. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1706, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of spruce beer was circa 1706

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“Spruce beer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spruce%20beer. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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