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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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Oakes (34715) reviewed
Double Stack from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
8.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
So much maple syrup. Dark brown. Maple and a nice bitter roast, with a fair bit of chocolate syrup. Very sweet, maple is all over this with a pile of chocolate, touch of roast...I like the interplay between the different elements.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:58
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Chronically ILL from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cloudy and very pale. Touch of orangey, maybe lime...on the palate you have more grapefruit, with light pale malts. Really nice.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:57
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Double Dry Hop Hop Dry Double (DDHHDD) from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Cloudy and pale. No head. Minty hop, very herbaceous...dry, the hops are weedy and herbal, really cool.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:57
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Ripe from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
8.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Ooaque and quite pale. Dank, weedy nose. Mellow dank hop taste, lots of bitterness, really good balance. Very good.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:57
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Juice Jr. from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Cloudy and pale. Lots of dank, and that follows through on the palate. I like that pile of mosaic.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:56
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Pineapple Space Invader from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Muddy, basically pale. Do get a lot of Galaxy on the nose. Galaxy is strong here - gooseberry and weed- good balance, nice malt sweetness.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:53
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Key Lime Pie from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
7.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Hazy, light amber. Nice tart lime aroma, appetizing. Really tart lime, balanced.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:51
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Strawberry Shortcake from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Hazy, amber, fruity, lots of strawberry, some phenols...off notes. Similar palate... not great.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:50
Oakes (34715) reviewed
BA Soursop from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cloudy, dull ambery tan. Lots of kettle sour nose. Mellow guanabana. The tartness is really heavy. The fruit is minimized.
Tried on 03 Jul 2017 at 11:50
JK (8152) reviewed
Key Lime Pie from Great Notion Brewing
9 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Tap at the brewery. Slight haze in the gold beer. Some complexity here. Lime initially, it smells like key lime pie., salt, and lightly tart. They did a good job with this.
Tried from Draft on 02 Jul 2017 at 00:16