re: #50 bill d. (b.d.)

lol, life really must have sucked back then. If they had a good alcoholic drink then they might not have come up with bourbon?

Apparently the early Americans tried a number of things to flavor and preserve beer, in the absence of hops. One was spruce buds. Anchor brewery, being history-minded and loving experimentation, once brewed a Spruce Beer, using spruce buds just like our ancestors.

It was horrible. Like the bastard child of beer and Pine Sol.