Shorts Brewing, Spruce pilsner (Picea glauca) Pinaceaeįiskarsin Metsän Henki Kuusenkerkkä-Ale (Picea abies) Naturally, these are presented in taxonomic sequence, although starting with Picea. I've been collecting these images for quite some time and many of these beers can no longer be found, but at least their memory is here preserved. Many of these beers have chosen natural imagery for their marketing purposes, and although cute furry animals seem to dominate the field, there are nonetheless many beers that have chosen names or images of conifers, and here is a museum of those. India pale ale (IPA), on the other hand, is probably the most common form of craft beer currently being brewed (at least in North America), with literally hundreds of beers to choose from.
Nowadays, scurvy is unusual and there is little need for spruce beer, though it's still occasionally brewed for its distinctive flavor.
This is particularly true when the hops dosage is heavy, and this accounted for both the invention and the name of India pale ale, which could remain reasonably drinkable throughout the long voyage from England to India. Due to the presence of alcohol and the use of hops in fermentation, beer is also a fairly hostile environment for growth of microbes, so it generally provided a less hazardous beverage than fresh water. Spruce foliage, including the tender young tips of growing foliage, is rich in vitamin C, and so a beer made from spruce could help to avert scurvy, though the benefits started to decline after a period of months. There is a long and honorable tradition of spruce beer in seafaring days, two problems associated with long sea journeys included scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency and the difficulty of providing a source of drinking water that did not, in tropical latitudes, become rich in pathogenic microorganisms. Gymnosperms and beer have a limited intrinsic association.
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