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I would think you are fine as long as A) no glue dripped into the beer and B) the fumes are not heavier than CO2. It would take a lot of fumes and from the sound of it that is not the case, but if the fumes were heavy and sat on the beer it could lend off flavors (highly unlikely, but just a...

I assume this was for a 5 gallon batch? What kind of grain bill did you use / what was the base beer? I am always looking for more recipes to add to the collection.

To answer 45_70sharps: When you were coming up with the amount of spruce to use, did you make a spruce tea to compare to hop bitterness? - We have made teas and there is certainly a bitterness. I have not been able to determine a scale for the amount of bitterness to compare to unfortunately...

Just thought I would mention we are offering a 15% discount to HomeBrewTalk forum members. If you are interested in getting some spruce tips through www.spruceontap.com just enter hbtspruce into the coupon code and get your discount. There are a lot of recipe suggestions on there too. Cheers...

The spruce tips are harvested in the spring, but we vacuum pack them on site in the forest right after they are harvested, then they are frozen. They remain frozen until they are shipped to the customer (shipped in bubble wrap with ice packs). This allows them a safe shelf life of over a year...

Yeah, funny thing! They used to have to call it Hemp-Ale but now they have the green light for the real name. ;-)

Hi all, just saying hello from Colorado. Long time homebrewer and forum watcher, but just finally joining. Look forward to being part of the community!