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CELEBRATING THE STRONG TRADITION OF CANOE BEER STORY AND PHOTOS BY JAMES RAFFAN
uds and strokes have long been linked through time, much like coffee and donuts. Te first canoeing brew however was God-awful trail-made bière d’epinette—a
spruce beer blending natural boreal forest sugars, sweetened with molasses, fermented with yeasts from dried wild berries and aged for days in the sun. With a moose-piss pour, dirty whitewater head and lingering naphtha gas finish, this was not the finest beer. However, the hardworking voyageurs must have thought, “It’s better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” —continued on page 14
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