spruce beer

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A beer made from the leaves and small branches of the spruce-fir, or from the essence of spruce, boiled with sugar or molasses, and fermented with yeast.

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