Poll: Favorite Hop

Totally understand where you're coming from. I use it in a lot of my IPA recipes because it gives a foundation of familiar citrus pith which I can then build on to focus the flavor. So like citra + galaxy = pulpy oj/passion fruit, citra + simcoe = orange peels in your pipe, etc lol

 

SNPA ftw

 

Other, Centennial.
Bell's Two Hearted (love that taste), to me this is the easiest hop flavor to recognise.

 

Citra absolutely needs a support hop. Not that great alone.

 

I can’t believe Vic Secret only had one vote (2 now). Any beer I’ve had with that hop it in lately has been, what do the kids say now(?), straight fire.

 

Mosaic

 

In my case you might as well be asking a blind man which is his favorite color. Still haven't made much effort to become familiar with individual hop nuances, like buying single-hop IPAs or going to a home brew shop and buying packets of various hop pellets.

 

Why no Sorachi Ace?

 

Several years ago I would've given a specific answer (believe in fact I did) but with all the different ways hops are used today I am now far more interested in what the brewer is doing with the hops than which hops are chosen.

 

Wow, we actually have something in common

 

You'd be surprised. I'm sure we have more than that.

 

I like all hops but to narrow it down to one specific I think I'd have to go with nugget

 

Citra and Mosaic in the name alone make me buy the beer guess I'm just impulsive

 

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t find galaxy to be passion fruit forward. In fact, I find it to taste like grapefruit, herbs and pine sap. Also... GALAXY is by far my favorite hop due to those very flavor profiles! Check out basically any monkish beer or trillium galaxy cutting tiles and you will know what I mean. Yes it’s still “juicy” but it leans in that lemon zest/ rind and dank grassy but somehow sweet resin direction on my palate. I purposely chase beers with galaxy.
My top galaxy forward beers:
1) Beats is infinite (monkish
2) western and Del Amo (monkish)
3) galaxy cutting tiles (trillium)
4) green (tree house) never confirmed but it’s noticable
5) society and solitude #5 (hill farmstead) has motueka and galaxy which are easily my 1st and 2nd fav hops.
In summary...
Galaxy delivers something in a beer that can be used solo and be the best beer I’ve ever had(beats is infinite) or be used in minute portions to balance a super sweet fruit bomb out into a crushable amazing beer even at above 8%(see foggy window/foggier window/foggiest window/etc). Point is, if you don’t like galaxy, you prob don’t like beer in general. Yes mosaic tastes like stone fruit and blueberry skin, Nelson like welches white grape juice and kiwi.. but neither have a true beer-like bittering taste. If you want your beer to taste nothing like beer meaning 0 bitterness to balance the OJ taste then get a damn mimosa. Not trying to be aggressive, just drank a pint of “insert hip hop” just now so I’m ranting. Point is I dig the guys who are saying hops like cascade, Simcoe, centennial, etc. I’m in my 20s and after falling in love with those juice bombs feel as though a beer needs some bitter to balance it or it’s basically a hard to crush dessert. Mosaic and Citra will never give you that.
Please message if you agree, disagree or anything in between as this is a fun debate
Cheers!
Eric

 

It’s a tough one to work with. You really gotta know how to build a solid recipe around it, because of its strong and unusual characteristics. But It’s definitely unmistakeable and one of a kind.

 

1. Mosaic
2. Amarillo
3. Simcoe

 

I love that pulling weed/smoking weed/ oniony taste. It makes it taste like a damn beer and not a bay breeze from the Bahamas. Galaxy and Amarillo give amazing bubblegum/grassy sometimes sweet onion vibes

 

Mosaic but i do like simcoe....

 

It shines in light in color, phenol-forward or sulfur compound forward beers that are highly attenuated and effervescent and that's about it.

 

Although different people have different thresholds for compounds and have different psychological underpinnings for the reasons that they like and dislike things, Citra is probably THE most influential hop on the list, as it led to the tropical fruit forward NEIPA explosion.