Thai garlic. I got it from a dealer at the farmer's market. It is red and beautiful and full bulbs were developed in April. This was at least 2 months earlier than my other garlics.

I have never heard of that type. Can you tell me more about it? What group is it in?

Is this it?
I like Chinese red & white.
Why should you like it?
Check it out at http://www.wegrowgarlic.com/

Here is a link that might be useful: Thai purple/filaree farm

inchelium red, spanish roja and lorz italian

I have 20 different varieties in the ground now so I am not sure what I will say in August,2015.

But now I like Georgian Fire.

I'm really liking a Spanish White garlic I'm growing, with amazingly large cloves. Each head has fewer cloves than some other garlics, but each one is very large and easy to deal with.

Music. Hardy, widely adapted, dependable, stores very well for a hardneck, large easy to use cloves, bulbs can get large, strong flavor (so easy to cook with). I still have some usable bulbs from last year's July/August harvest. VietNamese Red makes a nice, milder companion variety, but does not store as well; so does Siberian.

I also like Japanese, also large cloves and seems to be also very dependable. Big robust plants, seems to be a bit earlier than Music.

These all have the added feature of scapes for early summer cooking.

Those are my favorites, but zone 8 suggests that the Creoles might be just what you would like, even though they are not so well adapted to my Minnesota garden.