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For a traditional Quebec-style spruce beer with a bold, complex flavor—balancing earthy bitterness, piney resin, and a touch of sweetness—here’s an authentic recipe and method. This version mimics the old-fashioned “bière d’épinette” brewed with foraged spruce and wild fermentation. Québec Spruce Beer Recipe (1 Gallon / 4L Batch) Bold, earthy, and slightly medicinal—like the old …
Certainly! Spruce beer (Bière d’épinette) is a traditional Quebec fermented drink made from spruce tips (young spring shoots of spruce trees). Unlike modern commercial versions (like Épinette by Gaspé), old-fashioned spruce beer was often home-brewed as a lightly alcoholic or non-alcoholic fermented beverage. Here’s a classic Quebec recipe inspired by historical methods: Traditional Quebec Spruce …
Equipment Ingredients Instructions Essentially, the growler (1 gallon jug) fermentation process is to see if the carbonation is working. Once it has then you can start bottling in the flip tops. In the beginning, I would ferment it in the growler for almost a week before bottling. The result was a higher content of alcohol …
I am getting excited about trying my hand at making Spruce Beer. When I lived in Montreal Quebec, Spruce beer, birch beer and ginger beer seemed available at many of the local shops and supermarchés. It’s currently May here in Ontario and Spruce Tips are available during the spring. The stores that sell Blue and …
Had some issue starting my first ginger bug. Not sure if it was because I used tap water here which is treated with chlorine. However, I’ve never had issues with it when using it to make baked goods. I’ve also used the same water to make sauerkraut and more recently several batches of kimchi. I …
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