![]() ![]() ![]() Portland breweries including Little Beast, Baerlic, and Gigantic had already begun shuttling beer around the city, but West, a former computer programmer, took it a step further. He decided to keep his bar staff employed by turning them into delivery drivers. Nat West, the namesake founder of Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider, closed his North Portland taproom just before the shutdown. “We'd say, 'Look what's going on in Portland: There's a bunch of incredibly wonderful things happening because people are putting these brewpubs in.' They just didn't want to do it at that time, but now they'd be more open to it.” Special delivery “We'd talk to property owners, we'd show them our business plan and we'd show them our capital, and they'd say, 'Oh, I don't want to cut a trench drain, I don't want to do this to my facility, I don't want to do that,'” Taylor says. At the time, there were just three active breweries in Hillsboro ( Vertigo, Ambacht, and McMenamins' Cornelius Pass) and only two in neighboring Beaverton (Cascade Brewing founder Art Larrance’s Raccoon Lodge, which was later known as the Lodge at Cascade Brewing, and an offshoot of McMinnville’s Golden Valley Brewery.) Suburban beer snobs had to schlep into Portland to sample most of the city’s beers. It's a big change from just a decade or so ago, when Alan Taylor, brewmaster for Portland's Ascendant and Zoiglhaus Breweries, first visited Hillsboro to scout a location for Zoiglhaus. Even those that aren't building brick-and-mortar locations have found a booming market for their beer on the shelves of Washington County supermarkets and convenience stores, and via home delivery from DoorDash-style services. GN ships direct to homes in 12 states and has multiple locations in Portland, Seattle, and Northern California.Please visit to learn more.A growing number of Portland's flagship breweries are settling down in the city's populous western suburbs, a trend that's accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() GN has won numerous Gold and Silver medals, including accolades at World Beer Cup, GABF, Best of Craft Beer Awards, and Oregon Beer Awards, as well as the #1 IPA in America from Paste Magazine. Great Notion (GNB) is a brewery started by three friends and neighbors in Portland, OR that offers hazy, fruit-forward IPAs and “culinary-inspired” sours & stouts sold directly to customers through its own taprooms,Ĭreative mobile app and website. Stay tuned for grand opening information shortly! Get ready for more of our NW-style smoothie ales, super dank hazy IPAs and uber-quaffable clear beers.” “We are no strangers to the area, having spent a ton of time down in the Bay for collaborations and tap takeovers and the response has been awesome. “Fourth Street Berkeley here we come!” says Paul Reiter, Great Notion CEO. The brewery plans to kick off the food program with artisanal charcuterie and cheese boards, among other items from local purveyors. Initially, hours of operation will be Tues-Thurs 12-9, Friday 12-10, Saturday 11-10, Sunday 12-7 and closed Mondays. Great Notion’s Berkeley location will be 2,000 sq ft with a rad patio. Luckily Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo Room was no longer the best fit for them and it fell into Great Notion’s lap already built out! The GN leadership team has some personal ties to Berkeley so Fourth Street feels like home to the brewery. The brewery was close to pulling the trigger on spots in Oakland and Sacramento, but the timing just wasn’t right. ![]() GNB had been looking for the right spot to open a taproom in the Bay for awhile now. They can come pick it up, have it delivered right away or shipped next-day. Great Notion will offer 16 taps of draft beers, including core beers like Ripe, Juice Invader, Blueberry Muffin and Ledge, as well as rotating fun smoothie beers such as Mellifluous, sours like Jammy Pants and Key Lime Pie and culinary-inspired stouts like Double Stack imperial stout with maple and coffee! Customers will also be able to order packaged 16oz cans to-go through Great Notion’s mobile app and website. (BERKELEY, CA) – Pacific Northwest-based brewery Great Notion Brewing (GNB), best known for its fun, tech-forward business model plus hazy IPAs and “culinary-inspired” beers is excited to announce it has signed a lease in the Bay area! GNB will be taking over the famed Torpedo Room located at 2031 4th St, Berkeley, CA, 94710 with hopes to open by the end of the year. ![]()
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