Great Notion Brewing
Microbrewery
in
Portland,
Oregon,
United States πΊπΈ
Associated with 6 Venues
Established in 2016
Contact
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. Itβs fair to say, on this night, Great Notion Brewing was born.
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz can. Aroma is chocolate, banana, gun metal, nutty. Pours very dark brown to black with a thin tan head that reduces to a ring quickly. Taste is bittersweet with chocolaty flavor; banana is fairly subdued. A little underwhelming, but not bad.
Tried
from Can
from
Pilgrim's Market
on 23 Feb 2026
at 03:09
7.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. Aroma is berries, marshmallow, vanilla. Pours murky purple with a one finger pinkish-purple head with good retention. Taste is moderately sour (7/10), fairly sweet, and even pretty bitter with flavors of the adjuncts.
Tried
from Can
from
Pilgrim's Market
on 23 Feb 2026
at 01:01
7.1/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. Aroma is lime, cinnamon, vanilla. Pours hazy golden with an immediately collapsing off-white head. Taste is highly sour (8/10), salty and a little sweet with flavors of key lime pie. Like the Baked beer I had before this, I wish there was more of a pastry character.
Tried
from Can
from
Pilgrim's Market
on 22 Feb 2026
at 04:01
7.1/10
β
Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz can. Aroma is peachy, vanilla, cinnamon. Pours murky orange with a one finger off-white head that settles into a ring after a minute. Taste is moderately sour (6/10) and a little sweet with flavors of the adjuncts. Not as much of the pastry flavors as I was hoping for. Mostly just peach. A little thin.
Tried
from Can
from
Pilgrim's Market
on 22 Feb 2026
at 02:54
6.5/10
β
Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Aromas are a mild blend of resin, malt and citrus. Flavors are similar to nose with citrus coming on a bit stronger. Easy bittersweet. Not a lot going on but not bad.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 18 Feb 2026
at 04:56
8/10
β
Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
16 oz can. Aroma has notes of cantaloupe, gummy peach rings. Pours murky orangeish-yellow with a one finger soapy white head with decent retention. Taste has a moderate bitterness that builds on the palate to highly bitter. Flavors like the aroma. Alcohol fairly noticeable. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
from
Pilgrim's Market
on 16 Feb 2026
at 20:51
8/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pour at the 2026 Festival Of Dark Arts. Black pour, syrupy, slick. Boozy aroma, roasty, barrels, sweet. Cognac pops out in the taste, fruity, roasty, swet and boozy AF.
Tried
from Draft
at
Fort George Brewery (Lovell Taproom)
on 14 Feb 2026
at 22:44
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Dark brown, inky, no head. Soft, sweet, a little fruity, the cognac/armagnac barrels bringing unique complexity.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2026
at 20:26
8.5/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Shared with Josh at Festival of Dark Arts 2026 in Astoria, OR.
Intense oak, bold, sweet, chocolate. Finishes with toasted barrel and whiskey notes. Nice.
Intense oak, bold, sweet, chocolate. Finishes with toasted barrel and whiskey notes. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2026
at 20:21
8/10
β
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
First time I ever heard of mangosteen. Had to look it up. Aroma's are mangoes, pineapple with a little banana and cheese. Flavors are similar to nose. Slightly more sweet than tart with good carbonation. Good body and finish follows flavors, but turns bitter at the end. Nice.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 14 Feb 2026
at 04:06