Hops were once taken by Christian monks to suppress the sex drive. They drank large quantities of beer in order to resist the temptation of the devil - that is, their own natural sexual desires. Around the end of the middle ages, these monks began to brew hops in to their beer in order to keep themselves chaste. Nowadays, hops are the most common additive to beer.
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