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A Time Before Hops Hops weren’t always used in beer brewing—in the earliest days, brewers used all kinds of plants to flavor beer.   Generally, a beer created without the use of hops is called a ‘gruit’ or ‘grut’. ‘Gruit’ (or ‘grut’) can also be the… Read More »Saint Hildegard and the usefulness of Hops – Cheers!

Culinary arts?  Creativity? Arts?  This question of what was Saint Hildegard the Patron Saint of came up recently when I was asked where I had first heard or came to know Saint Hildegard as The Patron Saint of Creativity?  In my documentary of The Unruly… Read More »What was Saint Hildegard the Patron Saint of? Culinary arts? Creativity?