Beer
Hops
Hops noun - Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
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- One of the most integral parts of beer is hops, but he says that beer commercials would never show off hops vines/buds, because the fact that beer is made from flowers would be too unmanly.
Source: Not So Crazy Anymore - Of course, now Samuel Adams beer makes a very big deal out of the fact that they use lots of hops in their beer (and, yes, even show off the vines in bloom).
Source: Not So Crazy Anymore -
The ingredients in beer (grains, hops, yeast and water) are all things a horse will gladly eat on its own, given the chance.
Source: Music / Toby Keith
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