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.
Crowler pour. Golden orange pour with a finger of creamy sand colored head. Huge aroma of citrus and tropical fruit, very juicy. Wet slick fruity hop sweetness and moderately bitter. Tons of sticky sweet hop flavors. Impressive.
Crowler at the bottle share. Hoppy aroma; citrus and fruity, floral, and somewhat dank. Big hop flavors, heavy bitterness, but enough sweet to balance. Nice use of the hop flavors with the tropical fruits being at the forefront.
On tap at the brewery. Pours a cloudy yellow color with a medium white head. A toasted malty nose. Light grains, dusty, some sweet fresh floral hops. Solid.
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear golden hue with a small white head. A nice woody sour zesty melon nose. Clear watermelon flavors, sweet, sour woody vanilla Berliner base. Solid. Quite cool.
On tap at the brewery. Pours a cloudy yellow color with a medium white head. A wonderful perfume mango nose. The flavor is vanilla, ripe citrus hops, mango, no bitterness. Good.
On tap at great notion Portland. Pours out a pale golden topped with a small ring of the head. Nose is crazy watermelon jolly rancher candy sweetness and a little lemon zest. Taste is more of the heavy watermelon candy sweetness and a little tart note. This is great.
On tap at great notion Portland. Pours out a muddy straw topped with a white head. Nose is nice grain citrus hops. Taste is more of nice malts rich malts plenty of hops.