today.

Alongside the basic starch source, the early European beers might contain
fruits, honey, numerous types of plants, spices and other substances such as na
rcotic herbs.[27] What they did not contain was hops, as that was a later additi
on, first mentioned in Europe around 822 by a Carolingian Abbot[28] and again in
1067 by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen.[29]