Great Notion Brewing has never been interested in whispering, and this flight isn’t here to pretend otherwise. Peaks & Pints’ New Great Notion Flight is a decadent slide through a brewery that treats flavor like a maximalist art form — starting tart and flirtatious, drifting into plush haze, climbing into double-digit hop delirium, and finally landing face-first in dessert. In full color and zero restraint, this lineup reads less like a beer list and more like a sensory mixtape made by someone who refuses to skip the chorus. Consider it a guided tour through charm, saturation, excess, and chocolate-banana chaos, all stitched together by that unmistakable Great Notion instinct to ask not “should we?” but “how far can we take this and still make it feel weirdly elegant?”
Peaks & Pints New Great Notion Flight
Great Notion Blind Date
7.0% ABV | Fruited Sour Ale | Portland, Oregon
Great Notion slips this one through the door trailing perfume and mischief, all raspberry flash, lime spark, and a soft vanilla hush that feels like silk brushing past bare skin. The fruit acidity dances with creamy sweetness in a way that feels playful rather than precious, flirting with the line between tart and tender. It drinks like a late-night conversation that starts sharp, softens unexpectedly, and leaves you smiling at the memory — a sour that knows how to charm without trying too hard, which, of course, is exactly the point.
Great Notion The Timekeeper
6.7% ABV | Hazy IPA
Somewhere between sunrise and last call, this hazy IPA finds its rhythm in a glowing swirl of mango flesh, peach nectar, and citrus candy drifting across a pillowy body that feels more like atmosphere than liquid. The juiciness hovers in that rare middle space where saturation meets restraint, where bitterness knows when to bow politely instead of lingering. Great Notion lets The Timekeeper measure time not in minutes, but in slow, grateful sips.
Great Notion Chronically Ill
8.5% ABV | Double IPA
A velvet curtain of hop perfume pulls open in slow motion, spilling mango nectar, pineapple syrup, and orange sherbet into the air before the glass even reaches your lips. Plush mouthfeel and saturated fruit collide without tipping into syrup or sludge, holding their posture with surprising discipline. Chronically Ill lets Great Notion flex its haze-born confidence, drinking lush but alert, a double IPA that hums with tropical excess yet somehow keeps its balance.
Great Notion Juice Sr.
10.6% ABV | Hazy Triple IPA
This one doesn’t so much pour as arrive, a glowing tide of blueberry skin, tangerine peel, and overripe papaya drifting on a haze thick enough to feel plush between your fingers. Mosaic shows up in its most expressive moods, quietly sweetened by wildflower honey, giving the fruit a rounded, almost sun-soaked glow. Juice Sr. lets Great Notion stretch indulgence right up to the edge of grace, where tropical abundance meets a surprisingly nimble finish, drinking like a fruit stand at full song under a hot summer sky.
Great Notion Gorillas in the Grist
11.2% ABV | Imperial Pastry Stout
Dessert comes swinging in with a mischievous grin, all ripe banana flambé, molten chocolate cake, and cocoa-dusted depth rolling through a body that feels both decadent and strangely nimble. Fruit sweetness, chocolate richness, and stout gravity keep each other honest in a slow, luxurious dance that never tips into sugar shock. Gorillas in the Grist leans fully into its pastry-stout instincts, drinking like the afterparty of a baking show that went beautifully off the rails.
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