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Gruit?[edit]

Would this be technically a gruit like modern spruce beer? ☆ Bri (talk) 06:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I did some digging online but not finding RSs that make this point. Two OR thoughts from me:

If the beer still has hops, and just uses hemp as an additional flavoring agent, I don't think it counts as a gruit.
If the beer uses hemp (hearts I believe) as a total replacement for hops, you'd have a stronger gruit case, but given that hemp is a close relative of hops, you can fairly argue that hemp is an "alterna-hop" rather than a completely unrelated herbal bittering mix such as gruit implies.

Just my personal thoughts. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 05:08, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

According to Oxford Companion to Beer, "hops were sometimes part of the [botanical] mixture" of historic gruits. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:12, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]