Pining for Spruce Beer
Savor
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This carbonated beverage made from the tender tips of new spruce branches can be alcoholic or not – but it’s always a bit bracing. Anney and Lauren stick it out through the science and history of spruce beer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Saver, prediction of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Annie Reese. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and today we have an episode for you about spruce beer. |
| 0:21.2 | Yes. |
| 0:24.7 | Was there any reason this was on your mind, Lauren? |
| 0:27.9 | Was there? |
| 0:29.7 | Great question, as always. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah, I think I was looking for a beverage, and the history on this one struck me as interesting. |
| 0:42.0 | And so, yeah, here we are. |
| 0:43.8 | Also, I mean, thematically, it is the fall season heading sort of into winter, |
| 0:50.0 | where a lot of humans are about to bring pine trees into their houses for decorative purposes. |
| 0:58.8 | And so, yeah. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Timely. |
| 1:03.5 | It is timely. |
| 1:05.5 | And also, we did have this episode originally scheduled for earlier. |
| 1:14.1 | But then Life Day came in like a wrecking ball as it normally does. |
| 1:20.9 | And so I think you chose this a bit further back. |
| 1:25.9 | So I give you all the grace of not remembering why. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, that's, I was like, I was like, do I make something up? |
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