What is Hops?
{{taxobox |image = humulus.jpg |image_caption = Common Hop plant (''[[Humulus lupulus]]'') |regnum = [[Plant]]ae |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Rosids]] |ordo = [[Rosales]] |familia = [[Cannabaceae]] |genus = '''''Humulus''''' |genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] |subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] |subdivision = ''[[Humulus lupulus]]'' [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]<br /> ''[[Humulus japonicus]]'' [[Philipp Franz von Siebold|Siebold]] & [[Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini|Zucc.]]<br /> ''[[Humulus yunnanensis]]'' Hu |}} '''Hops''' are the flowers of the hop plant, which are in the humulus [[genus]]. Hops look like little cones, and are used to make [[beer]]. They give the beer a [[wikt:bitter|bitter]] flavor. They have been used to make beer for many centuries, and were used by the Romans in the [[Roman Empire]]. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~ggsurplus/hophistory.html |title=A History of Hops |access-date=2010-03-06 |archive-date=2010-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311150203/http://home.earthlink.net/~ggsurplus/hophistory.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Cannabaceae]]