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Corbie record commonly cited for hops in brewing
A record associated with Abbot Adalhard of Corbie in 822 CE is commonly cited in specialist beer history as an early documented use of hops in brewing.
Chronology
What date is actually being claimed
822 CE · precision: exact year · not marked approximate
Claim boundary
BEU records the cited documentary anchor without calling it the first-ever human use of hops in beer; earlier use remains a separate historical question.
Historical context
Places, participants, and period
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What this anchor helps contextualize
“Historically connected to” supplies sourced discovery context without asserting simple causation or lineage.
ingredient
Common Hop (species)
Provenance
Sources and reuse status
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Tier B · reputable secondary
Hops — The Oxford Companion to Beer
Craft Beer & Brewing / Oxford Companion to Beer
Reuse: citation only
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place
Corbie
Town in Picardy, France associated with the medieval monastic hop record cited in BEU009.
Navigation heuristic: 38. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
occurred_in · forward
Corbie record commonly cited for hops in brewing — occurred in → Corbie.
Historical event occurred in a place. Location context for corbie hops record.
Evidence: Hops — The Oxford Companion to Beer
historical era
Medieval Brewing Transitions
A European-focused lens for monastic, household, commercial, herb, and hop transitions.
Navigation heuristic: 38. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
occurred_during · forward
Corbie record commonly cited for hops in brewing — occurred during → Medieval Brewing Transitions.
Historical event falls within an era. BEU places this anchor inside the scoped medieval brewing transitions navigation era.
Evidence: Hops — The Oxford Companion to Beer
ingredient
Common Hop (species)
Botanical Humulus lupulus identity, separate from named brewing cultivars.
Navigation heuristic: 37. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
historically_connected_to · forward
Corbie record commonly cited for hops in brewing — historically connected to → Common Hop (species).
Historical context only; this does not by itself prove invention, descent, causation, or exclusivity. The 822 Corbie record is commonly cited as an early documentary hop/brewing anchor.
Evidence: Hops — The Oxford Companion to Beer