what is hops?

Question

that you find in beer

Answer 1

Hops

Definition: A hardy, vining plant that produces conelike flowers. The dried flowers are used to impart a pleasantly bitter flavor to beers and ales. This same plant produces hop shoots, which are widely available commercially only in Europe and can be cooked like asparagus and served as a vegetable.

Answer 2

Hops are a flower used primarily as a flavouring and stability agent in beer, as well as in herbal medicine. The first documented use in beer is from the eleventh century. Hops comes from the flowers of Humulus lupulus, and contain several characteristics very favourable to beer: (a) hops contribute a bitterness that balances the sweetness of the malt, (b) hops can contribute aromas that are flowery, citrus, fruity or herbal and, (c) hops have an antibiotic effect that favours the activity of brewer's yeast over less desirable microorganisms. While hop plants are grown by farmers all around the world in many different varieties, there is no major commercial use for hops other than in beer.

Answer 3

The beer hops is a peculiar subject, for the Wikipedia says that many types of hops are added to beer to make it bitter, but other sources say that some ingredients are added to some beers to cancel out the bitterness of hops. That made me think that hops was a kind of grain, just like wheat, millet, sorghum, etc., are. Why add hops to beer to make it bitter, and then add something else to cancel out the bitterness?
That does not make sense.

Answer 4

A bitter flowering herb grown in Northern Europe. We grow hops but they are inferior.

Answer 5

a viny plant often grown in the northwest, and other places, used to flavor and add bitterness to beer, and ales. it has some medicinal properties, also

Answer 6

its a weird herb added to make beer bitter.

Answer 7

beer on the vine

Answer 8

It's a Grain, has gulten in it.

Answer 9

a grain

Answer 10

http://www.freshops.com/gardening.html