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Fwiw: He's attributed with documenting hops for the first time in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_%28Pliny%29

I had to re-read the title a few times for it to make sense.

It's funny that the beer is the first thing many of us think of when hearing 'Pliny the Elder' these days.

I would hate to be immortalized by what I at least consider to be a pretty mediocre beer. I do not get they hype at all, and I've had it bottle and tap numerous times.

It was the first west coast IPAs to have in my opinion a perfectly balanced profile.

Now there's hundreds of other choices and copycats out there. I personally like more aggressively hopped and flavored double/triple IPAs but Pliny was brilliant.

I didn't even see the 77 CE part at first. I clicked on the title, read a bit into it, and was very confused for a minute.