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Thanks for checking out Spruce On Tap! We recognize there are other suppliers on the market, but here are a few things that make our products stand out over some of the others:

Our products are freshly harvested and then immediately vacuum packed and frozen. Our products are never dried or dehydrated. They taste and smell just like the day they were harvested - fresh!

We always tell you what kind of spruce you are getting. There are over 30 different varieties of spruce. Fir trees can often be confused with spruce (they can look almost identical in some cases) - and you really don't want to accidentally work with fir if you intended to use spruce.

We triple process (check) all of our products to make sure you are getting the highest quality and concentration with the least amount of foreign material.

We own our own brewery. We know the importance of consistent, quality ingredients. We use our own products and hold ourselves to our own standards.

We work closely with the National Forest Service. We are commercially permitted and give seasonal reports back to the forest service detailing forest health. It is only legal to commercially harvest with a permit and ethical to do so because otherwise harvesting can damage forests that are already struggling.

We use commercial grade vacuum packers, commercial-grade BPA free plastics, and walk-in freezers to process and store our products. Everything is temperature-stable and in the freshest environment possible until the day it leaves our shipping facility. We ship all of our products with ice packs, insulation, and express shipping.

These are just a few of the many things that Spruce On Tap brings to the table that other companies cannot. You may pay a little more with us, but you will be getting what you pay for and you will love the end result!

Spruce On Tap

A freshly harvested blend of Colorado Blue Spruce and Engelmann Spruce tips (new growth). Once harvested, they are immediately vacuum-packed and frozen. Spruce tips are used for brewing, tea making, culinary, herbal and countless other uses. Package sizes available in 4oz bags, 8oz bags, 1lb bags, 2lb bags and 5lb bags. Bulk pricing offered. They are sustainably wild-harvested, American-sourced and never dried or dehydrated.

Spruce Tips

Wild-Harvested

Chokecherries are sustainably wild-harvested,  American-sourced and never dried or dehydrated.

The chokecherry fruit can be used to make jam or syrup, but the bitter nature of the fruit requires sugar to sweeten the preserves.

Chokecherry is also used to craft wine in the western United States, mainly in the Dakotas and Utah, as well as in Manitoba, Canada.

Chokecherries

This is a freshly harvested, and then immediately frozen in a vacuum-packed bag of Gambel Oak green acorns and caps for sale. It is NOT dehydrated - it is fresh and sustainably wild-harvested in the USA.

Gambel Oaks have much smaller acorns that traditional oaks found throughout the United States. There are approximately 75 acorns in a 4-oz bag. They are pest free and hand gathered sustainably. Note, some caps may separate from the acorns due to packaging. There also may be hints of brown in some areas on the acorn part.

Gambel Oak Green Acorns

This is a vacuum-packed bag of freshly wild-harvested yarrow for sale. It is sustainably wild-harvested,  American sourced, and never dried or dehydrated. This product is harvested per order and then shipped fresh, not frozen. For this reason, please allow up to one week for us to harvest your order and ship it out the following Monday.

Yarrow  (Achillea millefolium) is a popular ingredient in a variety of teas, medicines, perfumes and BEER! In Switzerland yarrow was often used instead of hops when making beer. In the Middle Ages, yarrow was part of a herbal mixture known as gruit used in the flavoring of beer prior to the use of hops.

Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the seventeenth century. The younger leaves are said to be a pleasant leaf vegetable when cooked as spinach, or in a soup. Yarrow is sweet with a slight bitter taste. The leaves can also be dried and used as a herb in cooking. Navajo Indians considered it to be a "life medicine", chewed it for toothaches, and poured an infusion into ears for earaches.  In the Middle Ages, witches were said to use yarrow to make incantations.

Yarrow is an aromatic herb offering a bright aroma, often associated with mint, pine and pepper. Other characteristics include lemony and woody. Ours primarily seem to have mint and citrus characteristics with an earthy undertone.

Our Yarrow is wild harvested in the Rocky Mountains in southern Colorado. All products are vacuum sealed and shipped fresh!

We like to use a base pale ale recipe that is light on hops and bitterness and then add 2-4 oz of yarrow in the last 15 minutes of the boil.

Fresh Yarrow

Juniper needles (leaves) freshly harvested and then immediately frozen in a vacuum-packed bag.  They are not dehydrated - they are fresh and sustainably wild-harvested in the US (unlike most juniper products on the market).

There is very little bark or woody substance, other than what is found between the needles in the needle clusters. The Juniper trees that grow native in Colorado are called Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum). We have found in all of our research and with our own experimentation at our brewery that when using Rocky Mountain Juniper that you can use the needles alone to produce very similar results as if you only used a needle and berry mix in the brew, though not quite as strong as when you include the berries. 

Recommended usage for brewing is normally around a quarter of a pound per barrel for Winter Ales, a little less for lighter beers. Making gin? Distillers - we are having a lot of success using the juniper needles for gin botanicals.  This is a great way to use fresh juniper that has never been dried and actually wild harvested in America, not from over seas!

Other Uses include food and medicine. Juniper has been documented being used in beverages and tonics since as early as the thirteenth century, where it was said to boil the berries in rainwater to treat stomach pain. Some Plateau Indian tribes boiled an infusion from the needles and inner bark to treat coughs and fevers. The berries were also sometimes boiled into a drink used as a laxative and to treat colds.

Juniper Needles (Leaves)

American-sourced, sustainably wild-harvested specialty ingredients for craft beverage and culinary industries

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