What’s Tapping (10/3)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Tropical Party Tricks IPA w/ Mango & Pineapple, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Dark & Gourdy Non-alcoholic Pumpkin & Spice Ale, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Laughing Wolf Pilsner, 6%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Ye Olde Man & Scythe English-style Porter, 4.7%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): After Party Strawberry Limeade Hard Seltzer, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Hell Hazer Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Open Mind Hazy IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): White Sage IPA, 7.7%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Ultra Linear Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Wet Hop Session IPA, 
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Märzen Madness Märzen, 6.4%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Friar Duck Belgian-style Table Beer, 4%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Intrepid Extra Dry Cider, 7.5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): The Villager West Coast IPA, 7%
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma, East Village): Comfy Chair Oatmeal Stout, 5%
• Five Suits Brewing (Vista): Table Games Belgian-style Table Beer, 4%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Daygo Spritz: SP Tart Saison w/ Chardonnay, Strawberry & Pandan Leaf, 5% (collaboration w/ Homage Brewing)
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Helles Pale German-style Lager, 5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Takutai Pai New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 5%

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Festbier ’24 Modern Oktoberfest-style Lager, 5.7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Lost My Kaleidoscope Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): The Movie Was Better Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): They Gave It a Name…Krush! Triple Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): This is How You Tradition German-style Wheat Beer, 5.3%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): This Page Intentionally Left Blank Double Dry-hopped California IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): We’re Listening West Coast Pilsner, 5.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Pikimai Cascade West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Red ‘N Active RNA Hoppy Red Ale, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Daddios Pale Ale, 5.2%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Slammin SD Hazy IPA, 7%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Southern Skies Hazy IPA, 7.1%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Tasman Bay West Coast IPA, 7.1%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Insert Hell Pun [Here] Munich-style Helles Lager
• The Lost Abbey Brewing (Vista, San Marcos, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, East Village): Various Methods Double IPA, 9.2%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Nothin But Nelson IPA, 6.6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Explorer ESB on Cask, 5.8%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Eye on the Ball American Rye Pale Ale, 6%

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Jazz Is Harder Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Lenny’s Cream Ale, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Lil-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Party Cup West Coast Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Endless Shoreline IPA, 7%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Coastal Ties Murky IPA, 6.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Double Pure West West Coast Double IPA, 8.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Red Rock Ridge Amber Ale, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Future Jamz Sour Ale w/ Raspberry, Blackberry, Black Currant & Boysenberry, 5.7%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Bock to the Future German-style Doppelbock, 7.6%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Roll It Bamberg-style Rauch Helles Lager, 5.2%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Wrinkly Ram New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 4.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Oceanside, Downtown, Point Loma): Ghoulish Delights Dark Lager w/ Maple Syrup & Oak, 8.7%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Hammerhead West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Mutsch Love Munich-style Helles Lager, 5%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Nightfall Munich-style Dunkel, 5.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Best Interest Wet-hop Black IPA
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Helles Premium Lager, 4.8%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Fremont Field to Ferment | Wet-hopped Pale Ale (6%): Even within the rarefied category of wet-hopped beers, Fremont Brewing stands out. Their deservedly laudatory Field to Ferment series serves to kick-start the autumn every year, with a judicious 6% (alcohol-by-volume, AKA: ABV) pale ale base upon which the fresh green hop-cones are allowed to express themselves. The only edition of this perennial favorite this year is a single hop expression of Strata. Drink now. It won’t get any fresher!

Lowercase Northern German-style Pilsner | Northern German Pilsner (4.9%): Lowercase Brewing out of Seattle (right by SeaTac airport, a fine final place to stop before your flight home) brews lagers and lagers only. A brewery after my own heart! Somewhat maddeningly, with the exception of their core Italian Pilsner, they never repeat a beer in distribution. If you find a beer of theirs to your tastes, enjoy it in the moment. This aptly named Northern German-style Pilsner embraces the feinherb snappy bitterness so favored by drinkers on the North and Baltic Seas. Prost!

Alvarado Street Double Howzit Punch | Fruited Kettle Sour Ale (8%): Formerly entitled “Double Haole Punch” – a reference to the sugary concoction Hawai’ian Punch but also a Polynesian term for non-islanders – this kettle-sour is both inordinately refreshing and hides the ABV scarily well. The base edition was the first beer in my recollection to make good use of the trio of fruits known popularly as POG, which stands for passionfruit, orange and guava. “Like Capri Sun for adults” is how we would characterize it, if all the high fructose corn syrup were removed and replaced with lovely lactobacillus.

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