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The Armory Life Forum
When troops fought in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, a piney beer was the only thing standing between the Army and a slow painful death by scurvy.
Spruce Beer, made from plentiful spruce trees found in North America, was the only solution to solving soldiers’ scurvy woes.
A new company is brewing the ancient recipe, borrowed from the First Nations people who used it as medicine, and offering it at some of Montréal's finest establishments.
A recipe for spruce tip beer. You can brew beer with either spruce or fir tips, the young shoots from these trees you gather in spring - they're like hops.