spruce beer
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
spruce beer (countable and uncountable, plural spruce beers)
- (Canada, US) A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree.
- (Canada, US) A spruce-flavored soft drink.
References edit
- “spruce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.