Are Hops used for anything other than beer?!
Answers: And, are they used only for flavor or do they serve another purpose for being in beer? I don't drink so I don't know.
There is one german patent for adding hops to sausages as a "natural" preservative.
Substance prevents gram-negative bacteria from growing in the beer or wort.
Oil of Hops also used in perfumes, cereal beverages, mineral waters, and tobacco. Extracts are used in skin creams and lotions, in Europe, for alleged skin-softening properties
Folk Medicine
Dried it is used medicinally as a bitter tonic, sedative, hypnotic. The decoction from the flower is said to remedy swellings and hardness of the uterus. A cataplasm of the leaf is said to remedy cold tumors. The dried fruit, used for poultices and formentations, is said to remedy painful tumors. The pomade, made from the lupulin, is said to remedy cancerous ulcerations.
Delaware Indians heated a small bag of leaves to apply to earache or toothache
It is a small flower that is used as a spice. So yes, though not often.
It also acts as a preservative.
Hops are primarily used for beer. They are used in a Swedish beverage (non-alc.) and in some herbal remedies.
They're used mainly for flavoring beer, but they've also been used as a sleep aid since they have a slight sedative effect.
They do flavour the beer.
Another use for hops was to hang fresh picked hops up in the rafters/beams of public houses as they took the smoke out of the air. [back in the days when you could smoke in a pub!!!!!]
They are added to beer primarily as a preservative. Depending on the beer style, they may be used for aroma or flavor. Hops are also used to stuff pillows. They are supposed to give you a restful night's sleep. Sounds noisy to me, though.