What’s Tapping (6/20)

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!

• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Mild of Cups English-style Mild Ale, 3.8% (Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Guilded Together IPA, 6% (collaboration w/ Los Molinos Beer Co.)
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): The Seagull Has Landed West Coast IPA, 6.4%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Beoir Dearg Irish-style Red Ale on Cask, 4.7%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Chill Touch Shandy, 4.5%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Pilfered Dreams Barrel-aged Saison, 7.4%
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Handlebar West Coast IPA, 6.6%
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside): Nailed It IPA, 6.4% (collaboration w/ June Lake Brewing)
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): American Gold Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): DDH Treevana Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Coffeecore Czech-style Pilsner w/ Coffee, 5.5%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Pepino Perez Cucumber Hazy Blonde Ale, 5%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): American Pilsner, 4.7%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Keyhole IPA, 6.6%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft Season: Summer Saison, 5.1%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DoubleDeft Secret Doppelsticke Altbier, 9.2%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Sunset in Bruges Flanders-style Sour Red Ale, 5.7%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Denali Cold IPA, 6.1%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Goldie Hops & the Three Beers Hazy IPA, 6.9%
• El Cid Brewing (North Park): Crest of a Wave Horchata Ale, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• El Cid Brewing (North Park): Morning Quarters Coffee Stout, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Fantastic Planet West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Ube Haze Hazy IPA w/ Ube, 6.7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Beers with Dad West Coast Pale Ale, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Dads in Cashmere Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 9.1% (collaboration w/ Other Half Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): It Just Works Cold IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co.  (Oceanside): The Language of Lager Czech-style Pale Lager, 4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Shhhhhh…This is Ryan’s Award Winning Brown Ale English-style Brown Ale, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Golden Era American Lager, 4.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): West Side Do Or Die West Coast IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Big Fundamental New Zealand-style IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Hoppin Pils New Zealand-style Pilsner, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Leaving Without Saying Goodbye Irish-style Red Ale, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Thaï-me of My Life Mango Sticky Rice Sour Ale, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hazy Talk Hazy IPA, 6%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Irish-style Brown Ale, 5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): Follow the Sun Lager, 4.2%
• Mason Ale Works: Maximum Effort Hazy Double IPA, 8.1%
• Mason Ale Works: Weapon X Hazy IPA, 7%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Nothing But Nelson Single-hop West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Four Seasons ’24 Summer West Coast IPA (collaboration w/ Coronado Brewing)
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): 4 Stone Cold Dudes West Coast Pilsner

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Disciples of ‘Za Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Pizzaiolo Italian-style Pilsner, 5.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Squandering Citra Quadruple-hopped Hazy Quadruple IPA, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Easy Valley Amber Ale, 5.1%
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Kick Back Sour Blonde Ale w/ Passionfruit, Orange & Guava, 4.1%
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Summer Strand Blonde Single-hop Ale w/ Lotus, 4.2%
• Pizza Port (Carlsbad): Summer Haze Hazy IPA, 7%
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Tow In Double IPA, 8.5%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar, Downtown): Organic Blueberry Berliner-style Weisse, 4%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar, Downtown): Organic Strawberry Raspberry Sour Ale, 6.4%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Euphorik with Blueberries Barrel-aged Feral Ale, 6.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Liquid Alchemy Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Vanilla, 13.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• San Diego Brewing (Mission Valley): Gimme Sim’ Mo’ Double Dry-hopped IPA, 7%
• San Diego Brewing (Mission Valley): San Diego TerPale Ale w/ Terpenes, 5.6%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): Boondoggle West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ San Diego Brewing Co.)
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Iskold Danish-style Lager, 5.1%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): Eskimo Brothers Cold Pale Ale, 5%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Better Haze Ahead Hazy IPA fermented w/ WLP091 Best Coast Hazy Ale Yeast, 7.4%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Better Haze Ahead Hazy IPA fermented w/ WLP4042 Hazy Daze Yeast Blend, 7.1%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Dortmunder Export fermented w/ WLP830 German Lager Yeast, 4.5%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Dortmunder Export fermented w/ WLP920 Old Bavarian Lager Yeast, 4.7%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Beachwood Party Crusher | West Coast IPA (7.1%): One of the few rules of thumb around here: if Beachwood has a new West Coast IPA, drink at least one can. This one is a collab, albeit (rather unusually) not with a fellow brewery but rather a skate & fashion brand from New Zealand under the name A Lost Cause. A hops medley of Citra, Idaho 7, Mosaic and Strata make for a cause that is far from lost!

Seek Cou Cou | Alsatian-style Pilsner (4.3%): Where does the time go? Bottlecraft is 13 years old this month! Back in March at the San Diego Beer News Awards, I had the distinct honor to bestow the medal for Best Pilsner upon Dave Ohmer of Seek Beer Co. for his delicious Northern German pilsner Fortune. It soon became self-evident that we ought to ask whether he and his team would be willing to brew our anniversary beer for the occasion – and couldn’t be more delighted with the outcome. Cou Cou (informal French for “Hello!”, typically among close friends or family) is a pilsner in the style of the beers of the Alsace. These light-bodied straw-colored lagers often have a floral bouquet from the Strißelspalt hops grown in the region alongside the justifiably celebrated white wines. Seek sourced some of these selfsame hops as well as pilsner malt from France, making it an unusually terroir-driven beer – and just in time for the Olympics in Paris this summer as well. À votre santé!

Firestone Walker / Highland Park No Ends, No Beginnings | Barrel-aged Imperial Stout (12%): Firestone Walker has been masterfully aging up malt-driven beers for a great number of years now, long enough to trust them implicitly. This exciting first vintage of No Ends, Only Beginnings is a collab with our friends at Highland Park Brewery in Los Angeles, and is everything one could wish for in a bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout. Only a few cases made their way to San Diego, so even if the weather does not seem appropriate currently, grab a bottle and stash it for later in the year!

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