It's brewed with molasses and spruce tips. You'd think it wouldn't taste like a beer, yet it does. It has this taste of a good dark beer though a bit different. You don't really get the spruce part of it until the end which is really where it comes out. That and the nose of it. You start off smelling it and you get a hint of it. Just a hint. That it didn't dominate the beer really says something about the craft of the whole production. Honestly I just love it. I've thought a good "tree" beer would be a great idea and this just proves that it's possible.
This is another good one from Garrison out in Halifax. I didn't like it as much as the Spruce Beer, but it is still a very good reliable IPA. I was expecting from the color of it to have a bit more of a malty aspect to it but the hops dominate as the name of it would suggest. Overall a very good beer, but at it's heart it's an IPA so don't go into it expecting anything different.
