Spruce Beer
Wigram Brewing Company in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand 🇳🇿
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Score
6.04
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6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a mid brown colour with a tight white head, light malt aroma with hints of pine, the taste is medium bitterness with a dry bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2025
at 05:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Pours deep amber. Pepper, medicinal, floral, toffee, biscuit, bubblegum thing. Medium body. Odd and not unpleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2019
at 08:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Amber and hazy. Aroma is sprucey and molassesy aroma. Sweet and molasses, with spruce character, soft body and a sweet finish.
Tried
on 09 May 2013
at 03:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottled. A dark amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is very spicy with notes of spruce needles as well as tea. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, malt, tea, and spruce needles, leading to a bitter finish. The body is a bit light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2010
at 10:41
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
(Bottle 50 cl) Hazy, amber golden with an off-white head. Weird tar-like aroma. Medium body with lightly sweet, roasted malt accents, and then again these odd, smoky, tar-like notes - of spruce? The finish is dry. Hmm, more historically interesting than really pleasant. 260108
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2008
at 02:59
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Med amber color. Butterscotch, phenolic nose with the same thing going on in the mouth. Not particularly worth seeking out unless you are a history buff.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2006
at 07:08
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled. Hazy chestnut brown, small off-whitehead. Spicy pine needle aroma. Sweet with medium body and clean mouthfeel. Some lightly roasty malt, low bitterness. Despite it’s interesting name there’s actually not too much flavours in here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2006
at 02:34