

The Great Notion brewers loaded their hazy IPA base with a mountain of Nelson Sauvin, Citra, and Sabro hops for a bouquet of tropical fruit and white wine notes leading to cool grape swirls with every sip, sweeping up juicy mandarin nuances, golden pineapple, herbs, spices, wood, white wine, bright citrus fruit, lemon peel, mint, and crackery grains flavors along the way. Ripe IPA, a 100-percent Citra hopped hazy IPA, brings flavors of fresh squeezed OJ, dank papaya, and tropical mango, slowly fading into pithy bitterness. Skeletons, our internal structure, are meant to be hidden, which makes them spooky to see - even if they’re playful on the Great Notion cans. In addition to the bears and Sasquatches, Chad Eaton draws skeletons names “moss” on many of Great Notions IPA cans, include Ripe. It’s a sweet, creamy confection made to satisfy that cheesecake craving topped off with strawberry and vanilla. It tastes close to strawberry cheesecake, perfect balance of silky smoothness along with a tart strawberry bite.

It’s the strawberry version of Great Notion’s Zest Berliner Weisse series, the cousin to Blueberry Muffin and Key Lime Pie. Great Notion Double Strawberry Cheesecakeĭouble Strawberry Cheesecake is a tart ale made with Oregon strawberries and a swirl of vanilla. Expect aromas of tart blueberry, granola, hints of lemon, granola, and sugar, followed by blueberry yogurt with granola. Or is it the other way around? Brewed in collaboration with Southern Grist in Nashville, Tennessee, Blueberry Cobbler Muffin is a hybrid of the two sour ales. Hey, Southern Grist Brewing! You got your Blueberry Cobbler smoothie sour stuck in Great Notion’s Blueberry Muffin fruited sour. The bready blast blends with slight hop bitterness making it better than water. Expect lightly sweetened cereal fizz past your palate, swirling through biscuit notes. Notion Lite is Great Notion’s American light lager brewed with pilsner malt, flaked rice, and some Saaz hops.

Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Great Notion Beer Flight Great Notion Lite Today, Peaks & Pints presents a to-go flight of Great Notion’s beers - a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Great Notion Beer Flight. In addition to their hazies, the brewery’s barrel program offers award-winning American sour ales aged for 9-24 months in oak barrels with portion of their sour ales blended with Oregon fruit and freshly emptied bourbon barrels age their imperial stouts on ingredients such as roasted coffee, vanilla beans, chocolate, and maple syrup. Now the traditionalists are all wearing Great Notion T-shirts. Great Notion was the first Portland brewery to become known for hazies, and the controversial style, and traditionalists hated it.

The awards followed: World Beer Cup, GABF, Best of Craft Beer Awards, and Oregon Beer Awards, as well as the 2018 #1 IPA in America from Paste Magazine, Ripe IPA. Owners James Dugan, Andy Miller, and Paul Reiter basically freaked out the city known as Beervana with their New England-style IPAs and boundary-pushing culinary-style beers. In 2016, Great Notion Brewing opened in Northeast Portland and opened the city’s eyes.
