Oniony hop flavor

[drainbamage]

Occasionally I'll try a beer and the hop flavor comes off (as best as I can describe it) as "oniony". What causes this? Although I hear a lot of people associate it with Summit hops, I get it a lot from Dale's Pale Ale and SN Torpedo, neither of which uses Summit that I know of.

Are there certain varieties of hops that are known for this? Is it a matter of using traditional bittering hops for flavor additions (or vice versa)? I'm just curious, as I'm not especially fond of that character and would like to avoid it.

 

[JonM]

Galena for sure and I got a distinct oniony/cumin funk in an all-Citra brew I did a while back, but that faded. Oskar Blues' Gubna is chock full of that flavor, FWIW.

 

[BGBC]

I usually get it from Simcoe (Weyerbacher Double Simcoe), but it seems to be a personal taste thing. Some people taste it and others don't, or at least don't mind it as much.

 

[drainbamage]

Galena for sure and I got a distinct oniony/cumin funk in an all-Citra brew I did a while back, but that faded. Oskar Blues' Gubna is chock full of that flavor, FWIW.

See, that's the weird thing. I tried Gubna for the first time on Wednesday at an Oskar Blues tasting (I'd already had Dale's before). Gubna is supposed to be all-Summit, but I still got more of that flavor from Dale's. Maybe I'm mis-attributing piney resin notes or something.

 

[JonM]

And I could be mis-remembering too. Maybe I'm thinking of G'Knight?