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I think your taste buds maybe rooted, take a beer you like try switching the hops, aroma/taste will definitely show a difference but bittering will also show a difference, even if the aroma/taste stay the same. Biggest problem is, 'how fresh are the hops' I suspect that we, the home brewers don't get a fair suck of the sav. I was given some hops recently by a brewery, the smell and look of the hops were different to the hops I buy from the local HBS. Light green and strong aroma. Definitely worth keeping an eye on the hops you buy, plus how you store them.Yesi think this too. Many say tropical this and that but i rarely get all they mention via taste/aroma. Its a selling tool with a lot of them. Most hops smell and taste the same to me apart from the cheap bittering ones. My taste buds must be knackered but as long as a beer has a nice amount of late in boil and dry hop im quite happy.