According to Eater PDX, “a conversation about Portland beer that doesn’t include Great Notion Brewing is an unfinished conversation,” and many line up for weekly can launches of pastry stouts, fruited sours, and hazy IPAs. Great Notion has built a strong following in Portland and scored several medals at the World Beer Cup, along with other accolades. There’s also seating on an outdoor, tented patio and a painted railroad car parked outside for some neighborhood-specific flair. It has 20 beers on tap, while cans are available to preorder through an app. A year after its expansion to the city was first announced, Great Notion officially opened its Georgetown location earlier this month. As proposed highways break down through the stacked strata of centuries.” ― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion.One of the more popular breweries in Portland has set down roots in Seattle. As a shiny new ax, taking a swing at somebody’s next year’s split-level pinewood pad, bites all the way to the Civil War. That way it overlaps…As prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more–let me see–more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. In other words, I think this brewery is very aptly named. A romping story wrapped inside inspired, near-free-verse prose. I found it challenging but entertaining it is something of a lark but not exactly what I’d call easy reading. The brewery takes its name from a Ken Kesey novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, a formidable novel based in Oregon. Love it or hate it, they do it very well. The company focuses on hazy IPAs and culinary-inspired sours and stouts. Great Notion’s beers are often described as polarizing. The two breweries should pair nicely together, with one providing well-crafted, more-accessible, more-expected beer styles and the other offering beers best classified as ambitious and adventurous. In Georgetown, Great Notion is taking over Mercer Estates Winery’s tasting room, which might sound familiar to Seattle beer lovers because it is located right next to the Lowercase Brewing tasting room on Airport Way South. The Portland-based company already operates two brewpubs in Portland, as well as a taproom in Beaverton, OR. No clear word yet on the Ballard location. The company hopes to open the Georgetown location by the end of July. In the meantime, we recently learned that Great Notion will also open a taproom in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood on Airport Way South. Last November, Great Notion Brewing announced its plans to open a taproom in Seattle’s beer-bustling Ballard neighborhood ( read that story). The taproom will take occupancy in a newly constructed building on 14th Avenue NW, but the project has not come together as quickly as expected.
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