Tom's Tip of the Month: Sweet Aroma
The power of hops is amazing. Such an amazing and powerful aroma from such a beautiful plant. Hops has been used as a natural sedative, relaxer, dream inducer for thousands of years. Want to see for yourself? Head on down to your home brewery shop, possibly even your local greenhouse, depending on where you live; buy a small sack of fresh hops. Make a small sack out of some old material (yes, I sew too); fill the sack with some of hops...start with a small pouch of hops since it can be pretty strong in the beginning; place the sack under your pillow.....WARNING!! hops is a very strong aroma, most people can construe it as offensive because of how strong the smell is; See how much different your sleep is over the next week, how strong your dreams are during that time. Of course your partner will either be sleeping in a different room or probably have chucked the sack after a few days. Fill me in on all the juicy details of your little dream sack. Now, more recently hops is used in alcoh...