What’s Tapping (4/25)

Welcome to San Diego Beer News‘ weekly list of beers tapping for the first time or returning to beer lists at breweries throughout San Diego County, including links where you can find additional info or purchase the beers online. For more details regarding release/tapping dates, times and locations, consult the official website or social-media accounts of the brewing companies listed.

And keep scrolling for Bottlecraft staffers’ recommendations about beers they are excited about that can be found at their bottle shop locations in North Park, Little Italy, Point Loma and Oceanside!

• 3 Punk Ales Brewing (Chula Vista, Little Italy): La Flama Blanca Mexican-style Lager, 4.5%
• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): RB Lite Rice Lager, 4.8%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Checked Out Kettle Sour Ale w/ Lemon, 5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Atlética Mexican-style Non-alcoholic Copper Lager, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Chelada Amada Non-alcoholic Michelada, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Big Eye IPA, 7.1%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Fiddler’s Green Pub Ale, 4.4%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Divine Light Light ALe w/ Guava, 4.8%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Sweet Honey Blonde Ale, 4.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Skyloft Hazy IPA, 6.6%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Urban Excursion Double Dry-hopped IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ GOAL. Brewing)
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Spider Cider Wild Cider, 8.3%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Strawberry Fuzz Cider Wild Cider w/ Strawberry, 8.3%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Willy Nelson IPA, 7.6%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (San Marcos, Oceanside): Ganga Smugglin’ Terp’d Double IPA, 8%
• Creative Creature Brewing (San Marcos): Commander Amber Ale, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Black Forest Summer Schwarzbier, 5.3%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft & Taxes Weizenbock, 7.9%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft Perception Munich-style Dunkel, 6%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftoberfest Pils German-style Pilsner, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Make Mai Day Maibock, 7%

• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Against the Grain West Coast Golden Ale, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): I Love a Clean IPA Cold IPA, 6.5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Buko S’mores Imperial Stout w/ Coconut, Cinnamon, Vanilla, Cacao & Marshmallow, 10%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Coconut OD Imperial Stout w/ Vanilla & Coconut
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Can’t Go Wrong with More Smoothie-style Sour Ale w/ Raspberry, Blueberry, Strawberry & Orange, 6%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Endless Wallet Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10.2%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): A Little Too Sessionable, Even for Me 10° Czech-style Pale Lager, 4%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Nelson!!! (It’s What We Like Here) Single-hop West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Bohemian-style Pilsner, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Creamsicle Milkshake IPA, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Friends of Wrens West Coast IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ Wren House Brewing)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Seeker Stout w/ Coconut, Vanilla & Coffee, 8%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Ube Hazy IPA, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Honey Ale, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Rice ‘n’ Easy Pale Ale, 4.5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Smoked Porter, 6%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Elevation 5353 India Pale Lager, 6.8%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Summer Livin’ Belgian-style Wit, 5%

• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): Copperhead Amber Mexican-style Lager, 4.8%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Mariner’s Mosaic SMaSH West Coast IPA, 7%
• Latchkey Brewing (Bay Ho): Alrye’ght Alrye’ght Alrye’ght Hazy IPA, 7%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Dankster for Life Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Mission Brewing (East Village, Kensington): Campfire Companion Barrel-aged Vienna-style Lager 
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Explorer ESB on Cask, 5.8%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): C.C. O’Neill’s Irish-style Red Ale, 5.4%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Everybody Get the Money Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Nobody Get the Money Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Simcoe Slammer West Coast Pilsner, 4.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Das (Lager) Vienna-style Lager, 5%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): In for the Night Peach Brandy Barrel-aged Imperial Stout, 13.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Nebula Haze Hazy IPA
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Up, Up and Away West Coast IPA, 6.6%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Griswold 777 Seven-hopped West Coast IPA, 7%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Trunnion Ice Cream Sundae Ale, 4.6%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Purps Hard Seltzer w/ Terpenes, Grape & Blueberry, 4.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Dankship of Lanterns Double Dry-hoped Hazy IPA, 7.2%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

The theme this week is sea creatures, as depicted on all three cans!

Humble Sea / Brujos Mega Megalodon | Hazy Double IPA (8.8%): In honor of their 7th anniversary, the kooks at Humble Sea cooked up a bevy of celebratory collaborative beers. In conjunction with Brujos out of Oregon, this particular hazy Double IPA exalts the megalodon, a gigantic extinct species of shark. Seemingly willing to eat anything and everything, this sea monster disappeared from our planet a couple couple million years ago, leaving behind a fossil record consisting primarily of terrifyingly large teeth. Spare a thought for the intelligent and empathic whales who had to face one of these creatures!

Living Haus Quint | West Coast Pilsner (5.5%): Speaking of sharks… you’re going to need a bigger boat. Searing a fear of beaches into a generation of moviegoers, Jaws is widely understood as the first blockbuster. Memorably played by Robert Shaw (who would pass away just three years after the role catapulted him into film stardom), Quint is the grizzled sea dog who agrees to take on the task of hunting down the silent titular character. This hoppy pilsner from Living Haus (in the same space previously occupied by Modern Times Portland and The Commons) is given a healthy dose of Mosaic, Spalter, Strata and Waimea for a cornucopia of fruits on the aroma and a snappy finish. I’m talkin’ about sharkin’!

Sierra Nevada Barrel-aged Narwhal | Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout (11.9%): Initial human sightings of the narwhal may well have been dismissed as myths or tall tales – who would believe that the unicorn is real but happens to live in the waters around the Arctic Circle? Not only is the narwhal real (and not its own branch of cryptozoology), it is an elegant whale with an elongated tusk, capable of very deep dives into frigid waters. Inspired by such a mysterious creatures of the depths, Sierra Nevada has an obsidian imperial stout lurking in bourbon barrels for you.

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