spruce beer

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   a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)

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Questions about spruce beer

What does spruce beer mean?

spruce beer means "a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)".

Is spruce beer a common word?

spruce beer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.