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ER Hops, what are they and for what are they used? Well, if you like reading ingredients labels on household products, you may see that they are in many items you buy, such as deodorant. Hops have natural preservative properties, which is the reason they have become ubiquitous with beer. In fact, the Federal Government requires the use of hops in “malt beverage” or beer.

Historically, most beer didn’t utilize hops, as they were not as easily available as they are now. Brewers would often use what was available to them to help preserve and flavor their beer and one of the most accessible was juniper.

Sahti is a Finnish style beer and also one of the oldest; instead of hops to flavor the beer it traditionally uses Juniper. There is a huge world of traditional recipes and styles that use other herbs for bittering, flavoring, and preserving beer that fall under the category of Gruit. Using anything from the aforementioned juniper to dandelion, burdock root, marigold, and horehound.

Now that we’ve talked a little bit about what hops aren’t used in, let’s discuss why they became a universal ingredient in beer and required by law by the likes of the United States of American and the Reinheitsgebot.

Hops, also known as Humuls Lupulus were first documented by Pliny the Elder (23 – 79). The first documented hop cultivation is from the Hallertau region of Bavaria in 736.

Around 1150 near Bingen, we get the one of the first published uses of hops. Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a philosopher and healer, published a book called Physica Sacra, which roughly translates to “The Natural World.” Book I, Chapter 61, “De Hoppho,” or “Concerning the hop,” says of the plant: “It is warm and dry, and has a moderate moisture, and is not very useful in benefiting man, because it makes melancholy grow in man and makes the soul of man sad, and weighs down his inner organs. But yet as a

result of its own bitterness it keeps some putrefactions from drinks, to which it may be added, so that they may last so much longer.”

This suggests that hops are used for their preservative and antibiotic properties. However, it is unclear when hops began to be cultivated for use in beer. Germany likely began using hops for beer in the 1100s or 1200s and began exporting hopped beer in the 13th century. There is record that hop cultivation spread to Holland by the 1360s and was imported to England shortly thereafter. By 1412, we have the first record of Agnes Smyth brewing hopped beer in England. In 1603 King James I approved an Act banning the import of hops, thus paving the way for England to begin significant hop production. By 1752 hop use in beer was ubiquitous and Gruit began to fall by the wayside, more than 500 tons of English hops were imported through Dublin alone.

Currently, the United State produces the most hops in the world, followed closely by Germany. Hops are a vining plant that grow 25 feet or longer. Each spring, the hop rhizome or root shoots bines (a climbing plant). They like long sunny days and grow best between the 35th and 55th parallel. 80% of US hop production comes from the Pacific Northwest because of its favorable climate. Although, Florida has shorter days, humidity, and diseases/pests not found elsewhere, the University of Florida has a hop farm where they are testing the production of hops. So far, results have been positive with several verities growing well.

Next month, we’ll dive a little more into the science and use of hops in beer. If you’re looking to dive into a hoppy beer, you’re in luck! There are many locally brewerd hoppy beers of all styles from malt forward, dank hop-forward, tropical-fruit hop-forward, or intensely bitter. Scotty’s Bierwerks makes fine, hopped beers (along with other award winning styles), and recently released a Mosaic and Citra IPA.

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REAL ESTATE

Does my agent or lender’s company matter?

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Movement Mortgage; Century 21; Keller Williams; Wells Fargo; PRMG; Domain Realty – when looking for help in buying or selling property, you come across a vast array of company names. You may immediately recognize the company your agent or lender works for, or you could go through the whole transaction having hardly even noticed.

But your agent or lender’s company can have a big impact on how things go if your transaction somehow goes off the trails.

Broker Associate, or Broker who has joined a club: the National Association of Realtors. This binds them to a Code of Ethics, and allows them to cooperate with each other using the Multiple Listing Service.

Under Florida law, the Sales Associate is a representative (agent) to their own Broker, and to the transaction, not to you, unless you sign a document stating otherwise. Under these laws, they still owe you basic duties, such as accounting Agency Law for funds, disclosure of known facts, and writing Under Florida’s agency laws, the real estate offers. professional with whom you have contact holds one of three licenses: While real estate agents are usually independent • Sales Associate – This is the initial license, acquired contractors with their brokers, mortgage lenders after attending a 63-hour course, passing an endare required by federal law to be employees to their of-course exam, and then passing a licensing test. mortgage companies. And their duties generally The Sales Associate may not participate in real derive from federal law. They are required to estate business until they have affiliated with a provide you certain forms and disclosures, but the broker. mortgage lender owes no representation duties to • Broker Associate – This is someone with a either the buyer or to the transaction. broker’s license, but who is holding their license with another broker. This person is a bit like a Sale So… Who’s Representing Me??

Associate with a Broker’s license.

Two words: The state • Broker (Qualifying) – A Broker, or Qualifying Broker may run their real estate business as a sole proprietorship, or they can create an LLC, or some type of corporation.

While state law does not require representation from either your agent or your lender, it does require a proper license and registry upheld with either the Department of Professional Regulation (for real estate professionals), or the Florida A Realtor is different. Many licensees incorrectly Office of Financial Regulation (for mortgage advertise themselves as a “licensed Realtor.” There professionals). is no such license. A Realtor is a Sales Associate, 10

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Here’s a list of every division regulating every profession requiring a license with the DBPR: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/DBPR/about-us/department-divisions/ Here’s the link to file a complaint against a real estate licensee: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/DBPR/division-of-regulation/complaints/ Your lender is required to either be an employee of a bank, or be registered with NMLS: https://mortgage.nationwidelicensingsystem.org/Pages/default.aspx Here’s the link to file a complaint against a lender: https://www.flofr.com/sitePages/fileacomplaint.htm

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FITNESS

Why Do I Go to a Gym? How long have you been working out at Kari Kardio’s?

It was 12 years last February. I started 10 days after I turned 60.

How many days a week do you attend?

Half the year 4 days a week, half the year 5 days a week.

Dictated by my league tennis.

What do you like most about the workouts?

That they are different EVERY SINGLE TIME, regardless of what body parts are being stressed. Week in, week out, they are always different. Also, from the beginning, due to my injuries, all the instructors were great about giving me modifications if a particular exercise was not good for me to do.

It’s never too late to start a workout routine!

If you’re looking for some inspiration Kari Interviews Jane Echols

Have you noticed a difference in your body and how does it make your feel after the workouts?

I can sometimes “see my muscles”, and that always amazes me. Love starting my day with boot camp.

What advice would you give someone wanting to start at Kari Kardio but is scared they are too out of shape?

I would tell them that I got injured and missed six full months of ALL physical activities with a torn Achilles and shoulder impingement. I gained wright with all the forced inactivity, and turned 60 feeling fat, disgusted, and that I would never lose it. Then I saw your boot camp sign on McGregor, called you, and got to start immediately. Within two months I had lost the weight and was “hooked for life.”

So I would tell somebody that age and being out of shape are not valid reasons not to start working out at all. If you have the desire and determination, you can do it. And your facility just cannot be beat because it is small enough where the instructors all know everyone, their abilities, and where they need help and encouragement.

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Welcome back to my happy place! My name is Shelbie & I run a small mobile gardening business locally called “Goddess Grow Ops.” My team and I are here to help you grow and set up the garden you might think is only in your dreams! Who knows?

Maybe one day you’ll even have your very own set up on your back porch or even in your home.

in the backyard anymore, they’re gardening all over, growing up, sideways, in and on the home, suspended in the air and even in fish tanks.

In the next couple months, I’m going to go over a few new and what you might call crazy gardening techniques. But don’t be quick to shoot hydroponics down just yet, you might be shocked to find it’s just You might be asking your self “set up?” What does as rewarding, faster and even more FUN!! she mean by set up? Hydroponics, of course! Now, why are people not using soil and switching to Sure you might hear it’s expensive, that the up front hydroponics? costs are too much to get started or that it might be overwhelming and difficult. That’s far from the truth.

FACT: people nowadays are getting scared. Scared Every garden takes time, money, a love for plants, by the rumors, GMO’s, chemicals in our air and on nature and a little dash of science. What hydroponics our food. Scared about what is it doing to our bodies. can offer you will blow your minds and your gardens right out of the ground and into the water.

If you start to grow your own food, and learn to be more self sustainable, you’ll never have to ask So let’s get to it.....what do these new forms of yourself that question again or worry about what gardening offer? Faster grow time, a controlled your vegetables went through before they got to environment, less weeds, less maintenance, less your table. bugs, higher yield and continued harvesting!! This is all pretty great if you ask me!

Life begins the day you start a garden. – Chinese proverb The rewards here definitely seem to outweigh the risk. So... why aren’t more people jumping on the Hydroponic systems just offer MORE! More size, getting growing faster band wagon? The answer more taste, more effective, more efficient. This form is simple .... no one knows enough to get started of gardening is on the rise and it’s most definitely and, if you’re anything like me, I love plants, love the gardening of our future!

It’s no secret gardening is reaching new heights. experiments and hate to see good gardening go to People are not just gardening outside on the ground waste!

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There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips.

Now, you don’t have to have a bunch of room, a special degree, a big building, let alone a big expensive grow system to have a successful harvest. Heck, they sell pretty cheap indoor countertop gardens at places like Walmart or Home Depot, as small as 3 plants with seeds, pods, a grow light and nutrients. Follow directions and boom you’re growing an indoor herb garden that waters and suns itself!

So, in reality, what seems unobtainable to most is readily available in small scale at your local super stores. It is fast and easy to try it out at little cost to you. Even better, get creative. If you are handy, or an avid gardener like myself, you can always build and design your own grow system using 16

the same basic ideas. Now all that’s left is to choose the method to your gardening madness!!

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek proverb Till next time, stay inspired as there’s always room to grow! Even in the smallest of spaces.

Happy Growing!

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