Spruce Tips

First Look: Allagash Fluxus 2014

Allagash Brewing Company (Portland, ME) is preparing the annual release of Fluxus. The beer is so named because the style changes each year. The 2014 Fluxus release features spruce tips and honey.

Allagash Fluxus is a beer that changes every year. It is Continue Reading →

Short’s Experimental IPA Hits Bottles

Today (Dec 23rd) marks the first bottle release of Short’s Brew’s Juicy Tree IPA.

Juicy Tree is an experimental India Pale Ale made with blue spruce tips, juniper berries, and cranberries.

Big aromatics of piney evergreen and sweet berries tingle the Continue Reading →

Sixpoint Brews with Spruce Tips

This is Sixpoint’s Mad Scientists Series release #10 – Spruce Tip Ale, which is already hitting taps this summer.  Sixpoint’s brewmaster Ian McConnell picked fresh spruce tips on vacation in Maine.  A special recipe using crystal and pale malts was Continue Reading →