Great Notion

If you do go to Tin Bucket I recommend sharing that bottle with someone. That's a whole lot of sour! While you're there, I recommend picking up a bottle of Rusty Nail (if you like BA stouts). They had multiple bottles yesterday.

 

Awesome! Good to know! I'm actually spending a night in Spokane, WA prior to hitting Glacier NP where I understand it's best to bring beer with you...so I might do a bit of shopping prior to getting there. Seeing Rusty Nail actually at a bottle shop would, without your warning (thanks), have probably elicited a small but embarrassingly audible girlish shriek of childlike excitement that would no doubt have required the owner of Tin Bucket to request my ID, despite my solidly graying beard...! Thanks and cheers!

 

MoMo?

 

I'm guessing it's a hip kid way of saying MoFo.

 

As in, "A FOMO MOFO is a NO-NO."

Or, it means "peach" in Japanese.

I think it was a typo, but the other options are more entertaining, so I'm going with those.

 

Replacing MoFo with MoMo being that momo is a name of one of their beers.

https://untappd.com/b/great-notion-brewing-momo/2268440

 

So, are they saying that their beer is hot, and the weather even hotter?

 

Digging this Moonraker/Great Notion collab now, my thoughts. Perhaps this belongs in NW-WBAYDN, if so my apologies.

 

Seems like a good place for this post, though I don't see why it couldn't go in both threads.

 

Saying MoMo is hella not cool.

 

That's a real MuMu attitude.

 

Love you guys, no momo.

 

Just got back from PDX and I have to say that Great Notion was probably the highlight. At least beer-wise. I love the fact that they keep such a large (and impressive) tap-list. The prices are reasonable, too. Especially compared to Denver prices. The food is pretty killer, too. You guys are lucky to have a place like that.

As far as beers go, I found Wai-Iti to be the dark horse favorite of all the hazy items. Peanut Brother might not be as bold as Double Stack (and Blueberry Pancakes), but it's the only one of those heavy hitters I could drink more than one of.

 

I think my price comparisons for Great Notion are mostly from Denver and random other places I travel to a lot. That's mostly Chicago, Minneapolis, and the Southeast for what it's worth. The flat $5/$6 pricing is definitely less than I'm used to, although some of the pours are a little smaller (like you mention). The 5 for $15 flight is especially where things shine. They fill those little snifters almost all the way up and that price applies to the bigger beers. I didn't grab any cans or growlers. They were actually only of the IPA's that I personally wasn't a huge fan of, Invader and Oblivion 2. No big deal, though. I'm not a trader and I got to drink all of the ones I hoped to based on prior festival tasters.

GN was probably the favorite stop overall. We really liked Cascade, Deschutes, Upright, and the hidden gem of Old Town as well. For that matter, I don't think any place left us disappointed. We hit all of the main PDX recommendations and tried to get stuff from the other famous nearby breweries like Barley Brown's, Boneyard, Heater Allen, Pfriem, etc.
We also stopped into Beer O'Clock and was downright shocked to discover $3 happy hour beers. Not just select items, either - like 75% of the menu. Even a couple big beers. Prices like that simply don't exist in most markets, happy hour or not. I heard a rumor that a certain club very close to Cascade has sub $3 prices for like 1/2 the day, too. That's eye opening stuff

 

Just moved here a couple weeks ago and find overall pricing to be pretty reasonable. It probably used to be a lot better here, but it is still better than other regions I have lived and frequented craft beer spots. Pittsburgh prices are on average the same as Great Notion, same with Richmond and lots of New England. New Orleans is the only place off the top of my head that has cheaper stuff in some formats, like 4 packs of ghost in the machine for 11 bucks at super markets, and all their happy hours, but that is an outlier because it is New Orleans. Brewery wise, if GN is the most expensive, you are doing alright IMO.

I can see why it would be frustrating to see prices around town increase as people move to the city, but hopefully the growing breweries treat employees well, give back to the community, etc. and if not you throw your support elsewhere. I don't really see the value in people from other regions coming in and criticizing Portland locals on NW forums who are discussing changes in the economics of the beer scene. Couple months back, I paid 12 bucks for like a 12 ounce pour of King Sue in Boston, never had it on draft. To complain about it seems dumb. I didn't have to go to that bar, or order that beer, and at least I had the option of ordering it, when 99 percent of the country doesn't get that option. That is completely different than someone discussing how all their local places have raised prices a certain amount over X number of years, or how busy places are, or other general trends.

Just my 2 cents following some of these discussions across NW boards the last couple weeks.

 

What’s the “certain” club?

 

Probably a Peeler bar. Some of them even have great steaks for cheap.