Has anyone taken a basic pale ale kit and done spruce tip additions near the end of the boil? I thought about giving it a try this spring to see how it turned out.
Yes, and it is very easy to overwhelm the beer with the spruce flavor, depending on your spruce source. Check out some of the other threads, there are quite a few (in the similar threads box below).
I made a really nice spruce tip ale last year which wasn't overly sprucey. I found about 1oz of spruce tips per gallon 15 minutes from the end of the boil came out very nice.
Here's my recipe, it's a pretty basic all-grain pale ale.