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[Big Nake]

Chinook. Feels like you dragged a handsaw across your tongue for 30 minutes. Ack! Wrong.

[MolBasser]

Chinook. Feels like you dragged a handsaw across your tongue for 30 minutes. Ack! Wrong.

I figured this hop would be high on the list, and was surprised that it wasn't.Personally, I am a big chinook fan, but I know lots of people who hate it.BrewBasser

[dondewey]

Fuggles and willamette. Maybe EKG is the only british hop I can stand.

[CarlosM]

Fuggles and willamette. Maybe EKG is the only british hop I can stand.

i personally love Fuggles.... such a damn good hop!

[chuck_d]

I think there is a hops variety that I don't like, but I haven't brewed with it yet so I'm not sure. There is a flavor that I believe is from hops in a beer I tried that I didn't really like. Wish I could remember the beer though, this was years ago.

[BarelyBrews]

I hated the cluster for a long time , finally used it all up (great bittering hop) however im avoiding the Pacific Gem for now. I have two ounces left and dont know if i should dump it or use it sometime. I have 13 ounces in my inventory , and want to empty them all before i start new.

[MAZ]

hmmmi think i would have to choose chinook.... never really had a good chinook beer.

Sure you have... it's called Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale.

[kbhale]

Galena. the bitterness lingers on the tongue and becomes nasty.

[3rd party JKor]

Willamette. Every beer I have ever brewed with it turns out overly sweet. I dont know why this is but it only happens with this hop.

What were you using it as? I like it as an aroma addition, not so much for bittering/flavor.

[earthtone]

Galena. the bitterness lingers on the tongue and becomes nasty.

yup. even sticking my nose into a bunch of galena makes me wonder why you would ever put that in your beer.

[ThroatwobblerMangrove]

What were you using it as? I like it as an aroma addition, not so much for bittering/flavor.

I'm with you on the aroma option here - never tried it as bittering.

[Stout_fan]

Soriachi Ace - Like lemon in your beer. now in a Hefe, this could get interesting.Also not a big Simcoe fan.

[ScottS]

Cascade

I'm surprised someone else feels the same way I do. :)I won't go so far as to say I hate cascade, but I'll choose just about anything else over it.

[Gumbo Leviathan]

Fuggles... Always make my beers taste grassy...Its odd because I like Willamette, for whatever reason although they are supposedly almost the same, I dont find Willamettes to taste anything like Fuggles...

[Big Nake]

Fuggles and willamette. Maybe EKG is the only british hop I can stand.

This surprises me a little because these hops are pretty wimpy, in general. I have been making some English Ales lately and I have to say that I cannot get enough of this combination of Kent Goldings and Styrian Goldings (and this from a German hop fan!). Hmm, maybe this should have been posted in the Hops That You Love thread.

[stellarbrew]

I've never come across a hop I hated, as long as it was used appropriately. For example, if Chinook is used only for early hop additions, it modest quantities, I find it can give a pleasant quality to a dark ale. If you blast a pale ale with it throughout the boil, or dry hop with, it will taste like battery acid. Likewise, if you add large amounts of fuggles to a light ale late in the boil, you are sure to get grassiness. If Fuggles is used in early or middle hop additions, in smaller amounts, it can give a perfect spiciness to a dark ale.I've had mixed results with Columbus hops. At times I've gotten a wonderful citrus quality from it, but at other times, I have picked up that cat pee quality that people talk about. I've wondered if it has something to do with the relative freshness of the hops. As I understand it, there are certain qualities you will get from hops (not always bad) that depend on some oxidation of some of the chemical components, especially the spicy quality it gives to beer.I'm not aware of ever trying a beer that used Cluster hops, but I've heard frequently that that hop really has no redeeming qualities.

[nitroglycerin11]

For me it is Spalt of the US persuasion. My Kolsch just never was the same when using US spalt as compared to a Tettnang/Saaz combo. Stupid hop shortage.

[DaBearSox]

I have yet to meet a hop I didn't like, but I am sure I will eventually. I haven't used them all yet.

+1I may say Sorachi Ace, however I have only made one brew with them. They did not turn out overly lemon like some say, but the aroma is not great at all. I got them and the grain i used for free so I can't complain. I am aging the ones I have left for at least a year so we'll see how it mellows.

[LoveThemBrowns]

I'm going to have to say that I've liked most hops I've had / used, but the only one that I can think of that make me stand up and say "yuck" was Simcoe. Just didn't like it.men can say "yuck," right?

[earthtone]

men can say "yuck," right?

sure! just not about simcoe!!!