In 2016, three neighbors opened Great Notion Brewing in Northeast Portland and opened the city’s eyes. Businessman Paul Reiter convinced his homebrewing neighbors James Dugan and Andy Miller to take their skills pro and basically freaked out the city known as Beervana with their New England-style IPAs and boundary-pushing culinary-style beers. 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. Great Notion was the first Portland brewery to become known for hazies, and the controversial style, and traditionalists hated it. Now the traditionalists are all wearing Great Notion T-shirts. 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. Today, Peaks & Pints presents an in-house flight of Great Notion Ripe beers
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Great Notion Ripe Series
Great Notion Ripe
7% ABV
In addition to the bears and Sasquatches, Chad Eaton draws skeletons names “moss” on many of Great Notions IPA cans, include Ripe. 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. 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.
Great Notion Over Ripe
7% ABV
Great Notion Over Ripe is a fruited hazy IPA dripping with juicy mangosteen. Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) is an exotic, tropical fruit with a slightly sweet and sour flavor. It’s originally from Southeast Asia but can be found in various tropical regions around the world. Over Ripe is an experimental IPA brewed with Citra, Motueka, and Azacca plus tropical fruit. This beer is saturated with flavors of over ripe fruit like mangosteen, cantaloupe, guava, pineapple, and papaya.
Great Notion Super Ripe
9.1% ABV
Great Notion grabbed their Ripe recipe and made it bigger and badder. Super Ripe is dry hopped with massive amounts of Citra hops, and a second addition of Vic Secret hops from Australia, for pungent aromatics with peach, pineapple, orange, and mango. This medium bodied hazy IPA has a soft mouthfeel and juicy tropical notes of pineapple, tangerine, and peach.
Great Notion Super Duper Ripe
10% ABV
The classic haze of Ripe gets turned up to 11 in this triple version of their flagship IPA. Super Duper Ripe has all the Citra goodness of the original with an alcohol by volume that’s super-duper.
Great Notion West Coast Ripe
7% ABV
West Coast Ripe IPA is brewed to hit you with a crisp body with an explosive citrus character from Citra and Citra Lupomax hops for notes of tangerine, grapefruit, dank resin and pine, plus a crisp and satisfying finish.
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