Gruit
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Gruit is a herb mixture used for bittering and flavouring beer, popular before the extensive use of hops. The terms gruit and grut ale may also refer to the beverage produced using gruit. Today, howev
Beer brewed following a 13th-century recipe using gruit herbs
Hops
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Hops are the flowers of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to which
Gruit
…Gruit (pronounced ; alternatively grut or gruyt) is a herb mixture used for bittering and flavouring beer, popular before the extensive use of hops. The terms gruit and grut ale may also refer to the beverage produced using gruit. Today, however, gruit is a colloquial term applied to a beer produced…
Hop flower in a hop yard in the Hallertau, Germany
Fully grown hops bines ready for harvest on the Yakama Indian Reservation
Humulus on a house
Early season hop growth in a hop yard in the Yakima River Valley of Washington with Mount Adams in the distance