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The medieval visionary who put hops in beer

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Long before hipster craft breweries existed, this twelfth-century visionary was dropping botanical science. She was the first to document the preservative qualities of hops in beer, essentially inventing the IPA while everyone else was busy churning out sour puddle water.

The medieval visionary who put hops in beer
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