That's not going to do you any good. Hops taste like crap.
99% of the phyical matter in the hop leaves/hop pellets don't do much of anything to the beer. It's the oils that are extracted that bitter/flavor the beer.
Adding it to boiling water also isn't going to tell you much. Hop bitterness and flavor in a beer is really only relevant in the context of the balance with the malt in wort. Hop water isn't going to taste anything like hopped wort. That's like adding cinnamon to chili to see what it tastes like in an apple pie. It isn't going to tell you much.
The smell really tells you much more than tasting it would. You can get a pretty good idea of what a hop will do to your beer based off a good description and a nice whiff of the hop.
If you are REALLY serious about learning exactly what different hops do to beer from first hand experience, consider doing 5-6 gallons of a SMASH (single malt, single hop) recipes with the same single base malt, split it into separate gallon batches, and hop them all differently. Taste the post boil samples and the finished beer. That's about the best direct experience you can get.
Good luck!
