Outer Light Tubos Forever

Surfing season in the northeast marches on! The water is finally warm, the days no longer reach 90 degrees, and vacation season is upon us. Time to ride the waves and envision an endless summer. Outer Light Brewing Company will help you do just that with our newest beer, Tubos Forever IPA. We’re often asked how we come up with a recipe, so for this brew we will tell all.

It began with the idea to brew a light colored beer, as summer is upon us. We also wanted to kick up the ABV a bit, as our chalkboard was strong on low ABV brews and short on big beers. We decided to choose dry, sweet malts to accentuate juicy, resinous hops. Pilsen and Vienna malts work well to that effect. The Cara-Pils malt adds a little body and head retention. Red Wheat malt brings additional malty sweetness and, again, improves head retention. Despite the lack of caramel malt, this malt bill ensures the beer can support a large amount of hops without becoming bitter. Since we rarely do resin bomb IPAs here, we figured it was time to play. We had come into possession of Eureka hops, formerly known as Experimental Hop 05256 and previously seen in our Connectikook IPA. These hops are known in home brew circles as “Experimental Pine Fruit.” They taste, well, like you’d imagine “pine fruit” to taste – both piney and fruity, sort of an offshoot of Simcoe hops. We had enough for a healthy dry hop addition. Now we needed complementary hops in the boil. Enter another experimental variety, 07270. This dank hop tastes a bit like a cross between Columbus, Summit, and Centennial. When blended with Chinook, our favorite piney hop variety, the resulting beer tastes, well, kind of like “pine fruit.” Add in the Eureka dry hop, and you get the biggest, boldest, resinous, juiciest beer we’ve produced to date. Excited yet? So are we. Tubos forever, man. ABV: 7.5%; IBUs: 68; SRM: 4.5; Hops: Experimental Hop 07270, Eureka, Chinook; Malts: Pilsen, Vienna, Cara-Pils, Red Wheat, Acidulated