Talk:Spruce beer

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[edit] Tastes like evergreen sap, Pine-Sol, air fresheners or a spruce tree

How many people have actually tasted Pine-Sol or an air freshener? Or evergreen sap or a spruce tree? Exactly how does one taste an air freshener or a tree of any description? And the flavour does not "polarize those who drink it". People who don't like the flavour don't drink it. Surely any description of how this stuff tastes is a subjective opinion that is not verifiable (P.S. I don't like the taste either.)Idesofmontreal 03:17, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typo?

I am assuming that "In Canada, it is also a herbal tase soft drink" is a typo. I don't know what "tase" means and a Google search for "tase drink" only came back with "taste" typos. -- BlueCanoe 17:49, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Definition

In the Canadian province of Québec, spruce beer is a non-alcoholic soft drink that is artifically flavoured to taste like a spruce tree. It has a very strong and remarkable taste. It does not taste like beer, in the same way that root beer does not taste like beer. As far as I know, it is only available in Québec. --70.82.50.67 12:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I added the info to the article. I also removed a sentence that stated that spruce beer was an "herbal soft-drink" in Canada. The flavouring in the soft drink is completely artificial. If there really is a naturally flavoured version, my apologies. --70.82.50.67 12:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Any soft drink is non-alcoholic, by definition. An alcoholic drink could be called hard. 129.97.150.133 04:38, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Globalize

This article concentrates almost entirely on Canada. Spruce beer is also widely made in northern Europe and Asia, particularly Russia and Siberia. The article needs to be adapted accordingly - MPF 22:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I have re-organized the article in response to the "globalization" requests. If anyone has additional information on regional variations of "spruce beer", please add it to the article. -- BlueCanoe 19:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I tried reo-orging some more. I am not sure it worked, I think we need to go with varietes and mention which countires it popular in there. Otherwise the article ends up repeating info. Feel free to over write what I did, I am not sure its much of an improvement. -Ravedave 19:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Nice work, thanks! I've added a ref for 'northern Europe' generally, but (annoyingly!) can't find the ref for Russia. I know I've seen it somewhere, but can't remember where, so I'll leave Russia and Siberian Spruce out for now - the best source to check would be Schmidt-Vogt's monograph Die Fichte (which means a trip to a distant library for me, so I'll not be able to do anything about it for a fair while). Noticed the page has a mix of Canadian and US spellings (flavour, flavor), which should be converted to all one or all the other; I'd reckon Canadian is the most appropriate (as the major producing country) but don't have a strong opinion. - MPF 14:28, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Soft drink

Where there is reference to beer flavoured with pine leaves that will be made in the appropriate articles. This particular article is about the soft drink called Spruce beer and belongs alongside Root beer. SilkTork 15:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC) Ah. My mistake. Reading on I can see that there are both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions of this drink. SilkTork 15:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)