“If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.” — Hildegard of Bingen, 1067 (earliest written mention of hops in beer)
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Um, Hildegard wasn’t born until 1098, so that have been a neat trick to have said something 31 years before being born, and even longer before capable of speech.