Are there any hops you actually dislike?

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Some info about Amarillo hops. Patented and only grown by Virgil Gamache Farms in the Yakima Valley. The Gamache website says this: "Early harvest produces an Amarillo® characterized by flavors of candy and lemon. Middle harvest offers classic grapefruit, orange, floral and tropical fruit notes. Late harvest yields a mixture of garlic and onion, for a “dank” attitude." Garlic and onion is something I've never associated with Amarillo hops. I'm wondering if the combination of a late harvest and exposure to heavy wildfire smoke all summer explains the ashtray flavor my friend identified.
 
I have a love/hate relationship with Simcoe. If its used in the boil it just tastes like onions to me. Dry hop its pretty good. But when I read a label and it says Simcoe I generally just put the bottle down and back away.
 
When it comes to onion/garlic, I abhor that character. Some hops are worse than others, sometimes it's using the right lot/crop year the right way. Unfortunately buying from a LHBS knowing the lot/crop year is all but impossible.
 
Ahtanum hops taste like a tomato plant smells to me. I don't like it at all. I actually poured out a 5 gallon batch of beer it was so awful.
 
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