Re: WHITE SPRUCE BEER
von Christoph » So 14. Feb 2010, 23:17
"Here are three or four kinds of the Spruce pine, one of which is the best for making beer of any on ye Continent, as far as I canlearn, and can only be equalled in Newfoundland, Anor of them is reputed and experienced by the French here an infallible cure for the most inveterate scurvey, and indeed all spruce is reckoned a good antescurbutic, either in decoction or beer.
Within these two years the beer is become the most usual table drink in all our provinces, being first brot [brought] into practise in the army by Genl Amherst in some of his Campains."
John Porteous, Michilimackinac, 1767
(aus From Niagara to Mackinac in 1767, Bald, F.Clever,editor)