Beer without hops, I wonder how it tasted?
“Beer without hops, I wonder how it tasted?”
Like Budweiser...?
Or any other mass produced American “beer”.
https://www.brewersofpa.org/alternatives-to-hops/
Almost all beers had some sort of preservative adjunct.
I tried a very small batch with no hops and it did not taste like beer. Was malty. No bitterness. Bland. It went bad very quickly. Only had a few bottles before it turned into swill.
Fun fact: IPAs were so heavily hopped so they would survive the long trip from GB to India jostled all the way on the high seas.
Google “small beer”. Fermentation was proven to make it less likely you’d get sick from the drinking water, this was more about the lack of water sanitation than beer snobbery.