spruce beer

== English == === Etymology === German Sprossenbier. Sprosse (“sprout, shoot”) was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia, or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. === Noun === spruce beer (countable and uncountable, plural spruce beers) (Canada, US) A kind of beer which is flavored with parts of the spruce tree. (Canada, US) A spruce-flavored soft drink. === References === “spruce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.