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SPRUCE BEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spruce beer mean?
• SPRUCE BEER (noun)
The noun SPRUCE BEER has 1 sense:
1. a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)
Familiarity information: SPRUCE BEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("spruce beer" is a kind of...):
brew; brewage (drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling)
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