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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7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap at Great Notion - Ballard, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of dankness, some allium, grassiness, and biscuity malt. Flavour is fairly easy-going for the style, with gentle dankness, some pine, grassiness, and crisp biscuity malt. Dry, somewhat mineraly, and clean. Good stuff.
Tried from Draft at Great Notion - Ballard on 06 Apr 2026 at 06:27

3.4/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 3 Overall 3.5
On tap at Great Notion - Ballard, pours an opaque bright golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is full of artificial tropical fruit, lacto, lots of fake sugar… the usual nonsense from these guys. Flavour is egregious, with artificial papaya, fake sugars… dear lord, this is terrible. Artificial, sweet, and offensive. About as bad as beer can be without being infected.
Tried from Draft at Great Notion - Ballard on 06 Apr 2026 at 06:23

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Coronas are orange juice, other citrus, malt and a little oxidized resin. Flavors are similar to nose. More sweet than bitter up front. Goodbody in carbonation. Mildly bitter finish. Okay beer.
Tried from Can from Tavour on 31 Mar 2026 at 03:57

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 9 Overall 9
Dark brown, smells rich and orangey, oh with great barrel, mandarin beauty, this fucking hits. Shit goddamn. Comes together well.
Tried on 29 Mar 2026 at 03:22

7.5/10
On the boozy side for me
Tried from Draft at ChurchKey on 29 Mar 2026 at 03:08

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Dark brown, thin head, banana nose. Sweet and banana, some chocolate, coconut cream notes.
Tried on 29 Mar 2026 at 00:29

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
Canned, from Systembolaget. Hazy pale golden, coarse head. Intense dank citrusy nose. Mid sweet with medium body and crisp, rounded and. Sweaty grapefruit and tangerine. Resinous bitter finish. Bright, hoppy, pleasant.
Tried from Can from Systembolaget Beställningssortiment on 28 Mar 2026 at 21:37

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Draught Looks like pressed fruitjuice for all the world; thick, just off-white head as whipped milk. All kinds of fruitaromas. Lychee, indeed mangosteen, citrus, banana. Same in the taste: the above plus a hoppy bitter(ish)ness. Faint chalk, extremely long-lasting flavours. Lychee, mango, banana. Extremely creamy MF, chewy, fruit-filled, soft carbonation. Niche beer, but in that light, really succeeded.
Tried from Draft at Café Pardaf on 28 Mar 2026 at 08:01

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Draft at Alefort 2026. Muddy mauve pour, small head fades. Fruity aroma, heavy on the berries. Taste is sweet, fruity, berries and a little bit of vanilla.
Tried from Draft on 27 Mar 2026 at 19:17

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Aromas are a berry danish with malt. Flavors are similar to nose and a little more tart than sweet. Thick bodied with good carbonation.
Tried from Can from Tavour on 23 Mar 2026 at 23:57