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Last year I collected a lot of spruce tips and filled up the freezer. This year instead instead of freezing it all, if I could create a spruce essence by extracting the rich flavour instead of storing all the spruce tips in bulk, it would last longer, have a stronger flavour and be compact in …
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 …
1 Gallon of un chlorinated water 1-1/2 cups of sugar 4 – 6 oz of spruce tips 1 lemon 1/2 cup ginger bug