Gigantic Brewing

Microbrewery in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
5224 SE 26th Ave, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Description
Gigantic Brewing Company is an independent, crafty brewery located in the Southeast quadrant of the Peoples Republic of Portland. Brewer/Owners Ben Love and Van Havig are veterans of the Oregon brewing community.

At Gigantic we only do two things: make the best damn IPA in Portland, Oregon and produce seasonal, exciting, flavorful beers, most of which will be brewed only once. Our goal is simultaneously to create new interpretations of classic styles and to ignore those same style guidelines completely and brew whatever our creative natures produce.

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6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and light grass aroma. Grapefruit and light pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with light earth.

Tried on 17 Dec 2025 at 18:27


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7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Can from Tavour. Pours clear dark brown with a nice creamy tan head that persisted. Aroma of dark fruit, dark malt and spice. Med body. Flavor is the aroma with some citrus zest. Very warming indeed.

Tried from Can from Tavour on 16 Dec 2025 at 01:21


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

500mL bottle, pours a deep dark reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma has rich brown sugar, caramel malt, and bourbon barrels. Flavour is dominated by the bourbon barrels, brown sugar, toffee, and caramel malts. Complex, wonderfully barrel-aged, and balanced. Beauty.

Tried from Bottle from The Beer Junction on 07 Dec 2025 at 09:36


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Fles 50cl thuis. Gin, jeneverbes, fruitig, citrustonen, hout, grapefruit, wat caramel. (10-10-2025).

Tried from Bottle from Beer Republic on 10 Oct 2025 at 16:02


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

50cl bottle pours a clear amber, ring of white head. Nose has malt and caramel, a little metal. Flavor has caramel and rotten apples, malt and brown sugar and treacle. Full bodied, sweet finish.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Sep 2025 at 20:01


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

20 June 2025. “Iets voor den Erwin” @ Dracuna. Cheers to the whole GBV crew! Thanks to Meeki for sharing!

Jet black, small, foamy, dark beige head. Aroma of tawny port, melting fondant, dark fudge, pralines, marzipan, ripe brambleberry, walnut oil, tobacco, soy sauce. Taste has sweet prune, fig & brambleberry in a dark-chocolatey, almondy, walnutty malt body with touches of coffee, sourish berries and umami soy & black olive. Bitter earthy hops in the finish, pronounced espresso, dried fruits (sweetish and sour) and warming port-like alcohol (adding woody tannins too). Full body, oily texture, average carbonation. A 'perfected' BA treatment almost; complex and very enjoyable.

Tried on 11 Sep 2025 at 14:36


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Tried on 17 Jul 2025 at 17:49


7

Tried from Draft at Saraveza on 16 Jul 2025 at 07:00


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Barley Wine tasting, Bratislavka. Brown color with small beige head. Aroma of honey, rye, bready malt, molasses, rye whiskey. Taste starts bready malty, complemented with honey, roasted notes, molassess, rye, whiskey, cococnut from barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2025 at 19:00


7

Pours orange yellow from bottle. Citrus and lemon zest. Some peppet and malt and such.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 02:03