There are two main types of heart failure: heart failure due to left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure with normal ejection fraction depending on if the ability of the left ventricle to contract is affected, or the heart's ability to relax.
Gruit is a term that refers to both the mixture of herbs and spices used to flavor beer or mead as well as the alcoholic beverage flavored with such herbs and spices. Thereâs no one particular mixture of herbs and spices used in gruit â every brewer had their own proprietary combination.
Copyright Â© 2003 Stephen Harrod Buhner. It would have been inconceivable to our ancestors that gruit could ever be forgotten. But ask anyone today what it is and a blank stare or a bad joke aboutgardening will be all you will get - unless for some reason you happen to ask a beer historian. But for most of European history gruit (or sometimes grut) was what beer was.