With so many different hops available these days, it's impossible for each homebrewer to brew all of them single-handedly. Jim's Beer Kit is a great place to read what worked for other homebrewers, but it's especially handy when commercial brewers do this "dirty-work" for us. I taste every single-hop beer I can find, and post ratings to Ratebeer, which serves as a handy online resource whenever I need to remember my impressions of a certain hop. It occured to me these thoughts might benefit other nerdy homebrewers on this forum too.
Disclaimer: these are my own subjective opinionated conclusions, based on just one sample, at one specific moment in time. I am frequently surprised by how much another brewer's results differ, even using the same single hop variety. Your mileage may vary, and I certainly don't think my taste buds are superior to anyone else's.
From my Ratebeer rating of Schlafly Hop Trial: Vic Secret
Aroma: 6 out of 10, Appearance: 4 out of 5, Taste: 7 out of 10 , Palate: 3 out of 5, Overall: 14 out of 20
Total Score: 3.4 out of 5
Tasted on tap at the Bottleworks in a nonic pint glass. Twice now, I must like it. It pours a mostly clear golden colour with thin but persistent white foam and lots of sticky lace. Aroma is nice but subdued: flowery, faintly resiny, herbal. The bitterness and flavour were bigger though: mysteriously weedy, strong vegetal notes in a good way, lemon rind, dandelion roots, tomato plant, a little rough around the edges but definitely different and pretty damn cool, I gotta admit. Vic Secret is pitched as a Galaxy cousin and possible replacement. I don’t think so, breeding aside the brewing traits are not much like Galaxy at all, but oddly tasty in its own way. Bitterness and flavour exceed the aroma, which could be improved through blending with other aromatic hop varieties.