Outer Range Brewing founders Lee and Emily Cleghorn opened the brewery in late December of 2016, but it wasn’t their first rodeo — the two met at a home brewing party in Colorado Springs where they were both serving in the Army; Lee was a 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Detachment commander. Lee had spent his youth in the beer mecca of Brussels, where he developed a palate refined beyond his years. After moving to the US to attend college, he quickly learned he’d need to brew beer to enjoy those styles again. Fast forward several years, including many homebrew batches of Belgian-style beers and hazy IPAs, and Lee and Emily married, had a daughter, and after Lee’s third deployment overseas, decided to attend the American Brewers Guild Brewing Science and Engineering school in Vermont to pursue their dream of opening a brewery in the place they loved most — the Colorado Rockies, specifically, Frisco. Fast forward several years again, Outer Range is now brewing in France. Situated at the base of Mont Blanc in Sallanches, France, Outer Range France serves as a mountain brewery catering to the local community and nearby resorts such as Chamonix, Megève, and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. Embodying the same spirit as its original Frisco location, Sallanches is surrounded by iconic mountains and communities deeply rooted in outdoor recreation. Peaks & Pints presents a Saturday flight of Outer Range beers called Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Outer Range. Catchy, huh?

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Outer Range

Outer Range Camp Lager

4.3% ABV

Outer Range’s light lager hits the nose with all the biscuit, plus a hint of honey-like sweetness. The biscuit note leads the taste, which then turns to cereal grain. There’s a hint of sweetness as well as a hoppy bitterness. There’s also a floral element to the back.

Outer Range Apex

5.5% ABV

Outer Range brewed an extra pale ale, or XPA, with Citra Cryo, Mosaic Cryo, El Dorado, and Centennial hops for vibrant hop aromas of an IPA and a dry, refreshing finish.

Outer Range In The Steep

6.7% ABV

In The Steep isn’t a hop bomb like other Outer Range IPAs. This hazy IPA is a drinkable exercise in hop simplicity. This cloudy pale-yellow beauty hits the nose with apricot, resin, kiwi, honeysuckle, and tea, followed by mellow stone fruit, subtle kiwi, grapefruit, and delicate malt with a mild bitterness and some earthy grass and pine.

Outer Range In The Glades

6.7% ABV

In The Glades IPA is a 100 percent Mosaic-hopped version of their In The Steep IPA. Mosaic hits the nose with mixed berries, mango, passionfruit, pineapple, Juicy Fruit gum, and pine. Then, the hop hits the tongue with mango, passionfruit, mixed berry, pineapple, pine, strawberry, Juicy Fruit gum, guava, light peppery spice, and wet grass.

Outer Range Colorado Cou Cou

7.2% ABV

A hazy IPA staple for Outer Range, Colorado Cou Cou is brewed with Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic, and Kohatu hops. Dip your nose into pineapple, cut grass, ripe mango, and just enough dankness to keep it interesting. On the tongue, expect grapefruit, lychee, pineapple, and cannabis flavors.

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