Bad news for Isopterofurries. Sylvain the Polar Bear Pants Guy claims that Emile Bertrand, fine purveyors of authentic Quebecois Spruce Beer, have closed down. You can still buy canned spruce beer in Quebecois grocery stores but there is absolutely no comparison between store-bought spruce beer and the real thing made from yeast and spruce sap ( Read more... )

A warning to anyone who may still have a bottle or partial bottle of Emile Bertrand Spruce Beer. The beer contains live yeasts which will continue to ferment sugars in the bottle, releasing CO2, which can build to catastrophic pressures. One of the events I apparently missed while in Tokyo was the explosion of someone else's unrefrigerated spruce ( Read more... )