Great Basin Brewing Company
Founded on December 4, 1993 by geologist Tom Young and brewer Eric McClary — Nevada's oldest and most decorated brewery. Young was inspired by pub culture in Yugoslavia in 1983, and after years as an award-winning homebrewer, he and McClary lobbied the Nevada Legislature to allow brewpubs before opening in Sparks. Their debut beer, the Ichthyosaur 'Icky' IPA named after Nevada's state fossil, won silver at the 2006 World Beer Championships. 16 GABF medals and 9 World Beer Cup awards later, the Outlaw Milk Stout alone has won seven national and international awards. Great Basin donates over $35,000 to paleontological expeditions in Nevada and bakes daily bread from Icky IPA spent grain.
Beers by Great Basin Brewing Company
4 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Great Basin Brewing Company brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 4 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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Their beers place in the Top 53% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Great Basin Brewing Company
Founded on December 4, 1993 by geologist Tom Young and brewer Eric McClary — Nevada's oldest and most decorated brewery. Young was inspired by pub culture in Yugoslavia in 1983, and after years as an award-winning homebrewer, he and McClary lobbied the Nevada Legislature to allow brewpubs before opening in Sparks. Their debut beer, the Ichthyosaur 'Icky' IPA named after Nevada's state fossil, won silver at the 2006 World Beer Championships. 16 GABF medals and 9 World Beer Cup awards later, the Outlaw Milk Stout alone has won seven national and international awards. Great Basin donates over $35,000 to paleontological expeditions in Nevada and bakes daily bread from Icky IPA spent grain.
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