spruce beer
A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce treeA kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.
» Tom told me he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it.
Meaning
2 senses(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.
(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)A spruce-flavored soft drink.
- a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)
Examples
2 sentencesTom told me he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it.
Do you like spruce beer?
Тобі подобається ялинкове пиво? — deniko
deMagst du Fichtenbier? — lechlukasz
Origin
German Sprossenbier. Sprosse (“sprout, shoot”) was changed into spruce because the beer caGerman Sprossenbier. Sprosse (“sprout, shoot”) was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia, or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce.
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Forms
plural: spruce beers| Singular | spruce beer |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable