spruce beer

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English

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Etymology

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German 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.

Noun

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spruce beer (countable and uncountable, plural spruce beers)

  1. (Canada, US) A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.
  2. (Canada, US) A spruce-flavored soft drink.

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