CHRISTMAS TREE BEER

CHRISTMAS TREE BEER

RESOLVEN, U.K. (Wireless Flash) -- The holidays should be jolly for a Welsh forestry worker who has brewed up a batch of beer using branches of Christmas trees. Barbara Spence concocts her holiday hooch from a mixture of spruce tree branches, molasses, yeast and water -- and says the end result is a thick sweet brew that tastes like a liqueur. Spence says many folks who've sampled the stuff can't handle the strong flavor and even she finds it impossible to drink a full pint. Just about the only person who's giving the Christmas Tree Beer raves is a fellow forestry worker who claims the stuff cured his chronic cough. Nevertheless, Spence says she'll continue to brew the holiday beer until she perfects the recipe.