I love cilantro, but would probably avoid using fuggles again. It tastes kind weird; not awful, just weird.
No, no, no, a thousand times no! I hate that stuff. Even a tiny amount overpowers a dish and I hate the flavor. Blech.
Here's an interesting article about why some of us feel this way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html?_r=1
I like Fuggles. Hate Cilantro. Love coriander.
I like Fuggles. Hate Cilantro. Love coriander.
Hate fuggles. Love cilantro. Ambivalent about coriander.
Hmm. Doesn't look indicative of any correlation.
So what's everyone's experience with these hops?
Too dirty, earthy for me.
At first sniff/taste.. would you be inclined to believe that your beer tastes bad?
Like, are fuggles a kind of hop that might make a beer undrinkable to someone who dislikes that kind of hop?
Possibly. I love many/most IPA's, but English versions made with fuggles I just don't care for. Even though it's not a "flaw" per se, it just doesn't taste pleasurable to me.
Similarily, I love summit hops; though MANY report getting a bad onion/garlic flavor/aroma from summit hops.
See, I've made three 'English' type beers, all with fuggle hops. They all have this sort of basement, cellar-floor-y smell/taste to them. I can't tell if my beer is **** or if it's the hops.
Try the same recipes with EKG or Willamette.
GilaMinumBeer said:I like Fuggles. Hate Cilantro. Love coriander.
Fuggles has it's place in English beers.
I'm half mexican so I grew used to cilantro since my mom put it in everything, even though I'm one of those people that it tastes soapy to. I very rarely cook with it myself but when I do I just put a tiny amount since it tastes so strong to me.
I like Fuggles. Hate Cilantro. Love coriander.
Despite my distaste for cilantro, most mexican foods don't taste good without it. Just so long as it's there but not center stage.
HATE fuggles. Hate them. They make a beer taste like dirt.
I LOVE cilantro, and even put it on my salad.
/huge sigh of relief
It's good to know someone like you, Yoops, who I've grown to trust on these forums, thinks fuggles make beer taste like dirt. I can't stand them! But is that what they're supposed to taste/smell like? All the beer I've made with Fuggles ends up being close to undrinkable.
Yeah. I talked to a guy in my homebrew club who loves fuggles. He says he loves the "earthiness" of them.
Bob likes beer made with a bit of fuggles, but not 100% fuggles -as he likes the earthy dank they provide but not in a huge dose. I made a beer for him that was a fuggles/cascade mix and he loved it. I thought it tasted like dirty grapefruit.
Yuck.
Why would you ever taint the pure, bright tang of a Cascade hop with the foot-skunk from a Fuggle hop?
This may sound like a very, very strange question, but do you like the taste of Cilantro?
When cilantro is actually incorporated into something like salsa I have no problem with it. My issue is the tendency for some people to just dump half a metric ton of raw cilantro on a taco or something of the like. As a garnish I can't stand it.
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