You wont believe how good SPRUCE BEER is! [Holiday Doppelbock Recipe] 

Thank you again for watching this year! And if you want to have more influence on future videos in 2024 consider becoming a channel member! Cheers and see you in the new year

I'm usually the type of guy who views videos and never comments, but your content is informative and appreciated. Your detective video is too funny. Thanks and blessings 🙌.

I put the spruce tips in a hop spider, put the hop spider in the steel fermentor, pour in the boiled wort and let it steep for 24-36 hours, then pull the spider and pitch the yeast. Opening a bottle of this beer smells like standing in a conifer biome and the pine taste is amazing. My base beer is blonde ale at 6-7 ABV, but a double bock sounds interesting 👍🍻

Juniper is used in beer in Norway, both for desinfection an sparge, and as fermentable.

My first thought after drinking spruce tip tea two years ago was that I need to brew a beer with spruce tips. It just fits IMO

Hohoho! I decorate 'live' spruce trees and plant them in the yard after xmas. It's better for the planet and now I can see another reason why! Thx!

Spruce tips are amazing in beer, local brewery here used to make a spruce tip blond. Tasted really amazing, sadly they stopped brewing that beer. 2024 i also will start brewing again and will try out brewing with spruce tips also, hope it will be good! Thanks for the brew video's and lets go for a brew filled 2024!

I would love to try a pint !! 🤤🤤

Unrelated to the doppelbock: nice job on that BYO article ... a well-written piece. BIAB is the way to go! Cheers!

Amazing year for TheBruSho. Thanks for all the great vids. Loved the ABCs of Brewing especially. These spruce tips are giving me Sahti vibes! Happy New Year Trent!

Its been one heck of a year Trent. Thanks for all the content and we'll see you next year.

Great vid! brewing PBJ beer next week btw braj!

Awesome beer. Can't wait to brew this

Great video

Inspirational

Great job as always! Happy New Year!!

Looks amazing! Cheers to another year ahead of delicious brews and amazing videos! 🍻

Looks and sounds delicious!

Ingenious idea! We will have to try that out! Happy Holidays to you and yours, Trent!

Always love watching the videos! I can't believe you only have 55k subscribers, looking forward to the next year!

Banded Brewing out of Maine makes a pretty solid spruce tip ale called Green Warden. Definitely my go to if I want that spruce flavor. Killer vid like always Trent.

Looks like a great beer! Cheers! 🍻

Looks gorgeous ! Spruce tips also work really well with those citrusy american hops due to their own citrus aroma, in which case I'd dryhop with the spruce tips as you woud with regular hops. If you plan on foraging your own, it might be worth mentioning, that the spruce tips you harvest will vary in flavour depending on how young they are. If you go out into the woods really early in the year (season starts around april here in germany) and only take but the youngest, smallest ones you find, they're going to be quite citrusy with minimal pine / herbal notes, whereas those harvestet almost in summer will have largely lost their citrus like quality while offering much more resiny bitterness, something you can easily test by just chewing one while foraging. You can seal them up airtight and store in the freezer just like you would with hops. Apart from beer they're also traditionally used as a kind of cough syrup by being boild up with plain sugar and water, adding the resulting syrup to your tea instead of honey.

Really Appreciate Your Video , Thanks ! 🐯🤠

happy new year brusho!

Thanks for all the wonderful content ,Trent. Happy new year 🎉 🎉

Heck yeah Trent! I’ve been waiting for a spruce tips beer video!!! Haven’t even seen it yet, but just wanted to say thank you for making this video! Cheers

i love gin (juniper) and dopplebock. this looks wonderful!

That sounds amazing!!! I’m getting ready to dip my toes into home brewing. All my supplies are coming in the next few days. Been watching your channel, HomeBrew4Life, Cityscape Brewing and Flora for a couple months. Can’t wait!!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you my new found friend!!

Cheers Trent!!! Great video! Love DoppelBock!!! Happy New Year and here’s to another 50k in 2024 🍻

Great video, never thought of brewing with spruce tips. Nice blend of history, brewing, and the holiday spirit:) Looking forward to more content in 2024. Happy New Year!

Great video Trent, and very interesting recipe! Congrats on a great 2023, and here’s to an even better 2024, cheers! 🍻

No please... Thank you Trent for such great videos and content that you gave us during this year and the previous ones. You are a great professional and an extremely creative guy. I send you a renewed hug from Buenos Aires Argentina. Happy holidays dude

Very cool idea! Need to start harvesting some spruce tips! Great job all year long and excited to see what you have planned for next year :)

Nice one Trent! A homebrew buddy of mine and I made an epic spruce APA a few Xmas’s ago. Your channel and recipes are awesome; keep ‘em coming! 🎉

@thebrusho congrats on the awesome article in BYO. Kick ass.

I am preparing my garage in order to create a space for brewing and could not be happier to have discovered your videos. Also, my understanding is that you are originally from Chicago which I am always happy to see!

Another great video Trent, I love seeing brewers using new ingredients and ideas. I can't get spruce tips in my woods, but I can pick fir tips, which I use quite often in beer and cider. I'm watching you put a pound in there, and thinking " noooo... it'll be undrinkable...", as fir tips are quite strong (I use about 1 to two ounces in a whirlpool). Spruce must be a little more mild, so I'm glad it turned out well. Best wishes for the New Year.

At what temperature did you do your fermentation?

I’ve been waiting to brew this exact same beer for months. I have the grains hops and yeast, but because it is the winter months there are no spruce tips where I live. I was wondering if you had ordered yours online and if they were good and fresh? I can’t believe we have the exact same idea. Thanks for the video will let you know when I make mine!

Hail to the doppelbock!! Great vid! The timing for this video is pretty good as I have a doppelbock in the fermenter right now. In fact, it is getting kegged this Friday. One question I have is….did you use Munich I or Munich II? If it was both, what was the percentage of each?

Hi Bru, Big fan of the channel and love the idea of this beer, but I want to help with info. My best friend, whom I did my graduate school with, owns and operates Einbecker in Germany (the brewery who invented the Bock bier in 1378. It is located in central Germany, not Munich as you misspoke of in the video. Was there during Oktoberfest this year - Bock was fantastic! Happy brewing

The boil over must have been annoying. I hate it when that happens. Happy New Year!