Great Notion Brewing

Microbrewery in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 6 Venues

Established in 2016

Contact
2444 NW 28th Ave, Portland, OR, 97210, United States
Description
Great Notion Brewing is a project started by three friends; Andy Miller, James Dugan, and Paul Reiter. All three guys met each other out of coincidence, they live on the same street in North Portland. Andy and James met each other while home brewing in 2010, and began developing recipes and building a friendship. Together they have 25 years of brewing experience with medals in the National Homebrew Competition for fruit lambic and Double IPA. Paul Reiter has a degree in business and finance with a focus on start-ups and creative enterprise . In April of 2014, the boys finally got together and shared some home brew. On this night they enjoyed a Stout with hand smoked Vienna malt, a 3 year old Peach Sour, and a 10% double IPA. It’s fair to say, on this night, Great Notion Brewing was born.

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8.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Crowler, pours jet black with a small brown head. Aroma is amazingly intense, with shitloads of coconut upfront, followed by dark chocolate -- wow. Flavour is incredibly intense, with shitloads of coconut dominating upfront, followed by lightly sweet dark chocolate. Wow, this is intense. Orgasmic mix of coconut and dark chocolate. Fantastic.
Tried from Crowler on 25 Jan 2017 at 23:33

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Oily coconut nose, chocolate, and a touch of coffee. OVer the top coconut flavor with a harsh, bitter finish and a little maple syrup. This is way too much coconut, but fun. Liked Double Stack much better.
Tried on 04 Jan 2017 at 19:27

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Crowler thanks to Darrel. Hazy golden pour, small airy head. Fruity aroma, somewhat tropical. Taste continues with the juicy fruity flavors, small hoppy bite. Really nice textures throughout.
Tried from Crowler on 01 Jan 2017 at 15:45

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7
Poured from a crowler. Aroma is very coconut forward, but it’s very fruity and has a sun tan lotion character. Moderate chocolate notes with some light roast. Pours a dark brown to black with a medium sized, medium thick, light mocha head that recedes to the edges where it lingers off a bit. Light lacing and moderate legs. Flavor is rather sweet with some moderate coconut notes and some medium tropical fruit notes. Still has a bit of a suntan lotion character. Some moderate chocolate notes and light roast notes. Medium bitterness and some light alcohol spice. Mouthfeel is fairly full bodied with a silky, oily character and moderate carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a decent beer but it has a weird coconut/tropical fruit note to it. Good mouthfeel and sweetness.
Tried from Crowler on 30 Dec 2016 at 23:55

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Crowler from the brewery, filled yesterday at the release party. Aroma is wet dishrag, earth, yeast, moldy citrus. As nasty as I describe that, it’s not bad. Pours milky orange with a long sustaining white lacy head. Taste is medium bitter, yeasty, very earthy. Not bad, but Ripe and Juice Jr. were much much better.
Tried from Crowler on 24 Dec 2016 at 23:53

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Crowler from the brewery, filled two days ago. Brilliant aroma is very citrusy, some tropical fruit. Pours extremely milky orange with a long-sustaining bone white head with curtains of lace. Taste is lightly bitter with juicy citrus flavors. Carbonation seems soft. Really tasty, although Ripe seems a bit better.
Tried from Crowler on 24 Dec 2016 at 18:41

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Crowler from the brewery, filled yesterday. ABV says 7% on the can. Aroma is strong tropical fruit (mango, papaya, pineapple), fruit cocktail, grapefruit rind, earth, chalky candy, orange creamsicle. Pours super cloudy orangeish-yellow with a thick soapy bone-white head with good retention, leaving curtains of lace. Taste starts out lightly sweet before a medium-high bitterness takes over; flavors of the aroma, along with noticeable alcohol. Carbonation is pretty low. Seems like every time I get a crowler I have carbonation issues. Great beer, but the taste, although very good, was a bit of a let down compared to that damn near perfect aroma. Nice beer for sure.
Tried from Crowler on 24 Dec 2016 at 01:38

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 9
Crowler thanks to Grant. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong vanilla bean, cocoa, wood. Medium body, strong vanilla, cocoa, light roast, very nice.
Tried from Crowler on 22 Dec 2016 at 21:43

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 9
Crowler thanks to Darrel. Pours out a hazy cloudy orange juice color topped with a white head. Nose is big tropical fruit hop melon sweetness. Taste is more of the nice tropical fruits citrus sweetness and a nice creamy note.
Tried from Crowler on 10 Dec 2016 at 21:39

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Crowler thanks to Russell. Pours black with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong coconut, dark chocolate, roast. Thick body, chewy, strong bitter roast, dark chocolate, coconut, something off in finish.
Tried from Crowler on 01 Dec 2016 at 22:04