Gigantic Brewing
Microbrewery
in
Portland,
Oregon,
United States πΊπΈ
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2012
Contact
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.
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.
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 500mL bottle (2025 vintage, blue label; 12% abv). Side by side with Westward Whiskey variant. Very dark brown with minimal beige head. Very green wood forward, soft bourbon underlay, not a lot of nuance here. Prefer Westward, but only by a touch. Neither are especially complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2026
at 05:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured from 500mL bottle (2025 vintage, red label; 12% abv). Side by side with bourbon barrel variant. Very dark brown with minimal beige head. Slightly softer green wood note with a more robust bourbon underlay. Whiskey feature beer, prefer this over the bourbon variant just by a touch. Neither are especially complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2026
at 05:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark brown body with off white head. Pleasant aroma, malt with some flower aroma. Malty taste, bready and tasty. Long over the tongue finish.
Tried
from Can
at
Saraveza
on 14 Feb 2026
at 06:37
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Gold body with thin fast disappearing white head. Light faint citrus aroma. Hoppy taste, citrus and tropical fruit. Medium finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Saraveza
on 08 Feb 2026
at 18:07
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to English pint glass.
Appearance: murky dark copper to almost brown with a finger's worth of white foamy head which slid off at a delicate pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: some floral leafy hoppy tones with some earthy hop tones then some orange to citrusy hop tones (somewhat like an American styled way of hopping), hmmmmm, this might be an interesting beer, the malts seem fairly biscuity and bready with a touch of buttery quality (not diacetyl) but actually buttery quality as if they put butter in this
Flavor: seems to blend the prior noted aromas together fairly nice and comes across somewhat clean as far as I can tell; finishes earthy hopped with the citrusy hops and the malts seem a bit cleaner than other EPA's I've had.
Texture: light to medium bodied, some sessionability to this one. fairly smooth along the tongue, bitterness is fairly low
Overall: so it's labeled an English pale ale on here and well, I liked it for me and oddly enough, some American pale ale fans might like this one too.
Bottle to English pint glass.
Appearance: murky dark copper to almost brown with a finger's worth of white foamy head which slid off at a delicate pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: some floral leafy hoppy tones with some earthy hop tones then some orange to citrusy hop tones (somewhat like an American styled way of hopping), hmmmmm, this might be an interesting beer, the malts seem fairly biscuity and bready with a touch of buttery quality (not diacetyl) but actually buttery quality as if they put butter in this
Flavor: seems to blend the prior noted aromas together fairly nice and comes across somewhat clean as far as I can tell; finishes earthy hopped with the citrusy hops and the malts seem a bit cleaner than other EPA's I've had.
Texture: light to medium bodied, some sessionability to this one. fairly smooth along the tongue, bitterness is fairly low
Overall: so it's labeled an English pale ale on here and well, I liked it for me and oddly enough, some American pale ale fans might like this one too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2026
at 19:22
6.9/10
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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
7.5/10
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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
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(2024 vintage) Clear, very dark brown colour with a small brown head; aroma of cocoa, chocolate; balanced flavor with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
at
Gigantic Brewing Robot Room at Rocket Empire Machine
on 08 Dec 2025
at 01:38
8.4/10
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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
7.5/10
β
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