vitamin C content of spruce beer?

[bluebeerd]

Spruce beer according to Wikipedia has "50 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams" which is about the same as an orange! How can that be, when vitamin C is usually destroyed by cooking and the recipes call for boiling the spruce tips, even as much as 3 hours?

Also, is it true that spruce beer tastes like Vick's Vaporub and Listerine until "After two years of aging in the refrigerator it is now one of the most refreshing, light summer beers"?

 

[unionrdr]

Nah, tastes/smells of wintergreen with a little pine resiny quality. I used 1/4oz of the spruce essence in my Mumme to replace 2ozs of tips I couldn't get for the boil. Mixed it into the priming solution on bottling day. I did that for the vanilla tincture I made for my robust porter too. Mixing into priming solution works fine. So I should have some VC in my brew?