Onion/Garlic flavor

Leubega · Jun 24, 2013

I've been picking up quite a few IIPAs recently (notably Stone Enjoy by and RuinTen) and there's been a huge smack of onion and garlic right off the bat. normally I love me some garlic in my food but some of these have been a little too overwhleming. Some have been pointing to Summit overload as a cause and I just can't seem to place it. Any ideas?

BigEd · Jun 24, 2013

Summit hops are probably the cause. Tastes like a six month old bag of decayed onions.

DocScott · Jun 24, 2013

BigEd said:
Summit hops are probably the cause. Tastes like a six month old bag of decayed onions.

I get the onion only with late additions of summit hops. I think summit is a pretty decent bittering hop.

Hammy71 · Jun 24, 2013

Hit or miss with Summit with me. A Google search will lead you to the theory that different farms grow Summit. Some of the farms give a nice bittering hop...and some give the onion taste. Explained to me my "hit or miss" dilemma.

terrapinj · Jun 24, 2013

RuinTen is all centennial like Ruination but they added Citra to the dry hop

edit: guess they also use some columbus

Andrikos · Jun 24, 2013

My 2012 Columbus smell very Allium-like (Garlic-onion).
I was quite surprised to the point of wondering if my supplier mixed them up with Summits.

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