What’s Tapping (10/10)

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!

• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Lager of Time Dark Mexican-style Lager, 5.1% (collaboration w/ GameCraft Brewing)
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Harambe Helles-style Lager w/ Lime, 4.4%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Keytar Amber Lager, 4.1%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Non-alcoholic Wet Hop IPA, < 0.5%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Divine Light Blonde Ale w/ Apricot & Passionfruit, 4.8%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Gambino Imperial Coffee Stout, 8.5%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Power Play West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): After Party Strawberry Limeade Hard Seltzer, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Purgatory Juicy IPA, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Stay Chill Blonde Ale, 4.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Clearly Cali West Coast Pilsner, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Nature Calls! IPA, 6.9% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Circle of Wet Hops Wet-hop Pale Ale, 5.2%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Water World West Coast Double IPA (collaboration w/ Fremont Brewing)
• Creative Creature Brewing (San Marcos): It’s Hawaiian Sun Imperial Sour Smoothie Ale w/ Passionfruit, Orange & Guava, 8% (collaboration w/ Abnormal Beer Co.)
• Culver Beer Co. (Carlsbad): 8 Year Anniversary Extra Pale Ale, 5.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Ho/Morena): DubBelGique Belgian-style Dubbel, 6.7%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Ho/Morena): Near Deft Experience English-style Pale Ale, 5.6%

• Deft Brewing (Bay Ho/Morena): Tourmaline Tan English-style Brown Ale, 6.1%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Aloha Press IPA, 6.8%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Tribal Worldwide Lager, 4.5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Buko Pandan Haze Hazy IPA w/ Coconut & Pandan, 6.4%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Helles Pale German-style Lager, 5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Saison Spritz SP Tart Saison w/ Chardonnay, Strawberry & Pandan, 5% (collaboration w/ Homage Brewing)
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Shadow Ones Hazy IPA, 6.4%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Takutai Pai New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Ube Vanilla OD Dessert Stout w/ Ube & Vanilla, 11.7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Now Open in Transylvania West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Heritage Brewery & Barbecue (Oceanside): 7•6•Oats Oatmeal Stout, 5.3%
• Heritage Brewery & Barbecue (Oceanside): Wasted Days Hazy Nights Hazy IPA, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Blood in the Water Red IPA, 7.1% (collaboration w/ Resident Brewing)
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Slammin SD Hazy IPA, 7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Carnal Intent Black IPA, 7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Juniper Flats Sahti, 8% (collaboration w/ Smoking Cannon Brewery)
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Vera Hoppy Lager, 5.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Peanut Butter Cup Porter, 5.4%

• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Oktoberfest Ale German-style Altbier, 6%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): Volkslager Festbier, 5.2%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Burlingame Black Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Limited Edition Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Nice Numbers West Coast Pilsner, 4.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Owl Farm Unique Fermentation (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Cranrazz Hard Seltzer w/ Cranberry & Raspberry, 5%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Pajama Party Cold IPA, 6.5% (collaboration w/ The Shop Beer Co.)
• Prey Brewing (Vista): Hazy Session IPA, 4.1%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar): Pacific Chill Organic Hoppy Pilsner, 5.1%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Madeline Oak Barrel-aged Mixed Fermentation Saison w/ Black Currant, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Shadow Work Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Coconut & Cacao, 13.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Downtown, Chula Vista): St. Bender’s Belgian-style Tripel, \04%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): Bunny Hop 9 Rotating Single-hop IPA w/ HRC-003, 6.3%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Innate Aura Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Space Train West Coast IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Point Loma): Mättzen Märzen, 6.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Frost Factory Wet-hop Cold IPA, 6%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Moving Target West Coast Double IPA, 8%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Crooked Stave / Lawson’s Finest Liquids Lupulin Gumbo | Hazy IPA(7%): The trio of breweries that arguably elevated Vermont to must-visit status for craft beer aficionados were The Alchemist, Hill Farmstead and Lawson’s Finest Liquids. And while we nowadays receive shipments of Heady Topper and Focal Banger twice annually around here, the other two still require a sojourn to the northeast. Hence, it is a delight to see Lawson’s name emblazoned on the can for this beer, which was brewed at Crooked Stave in Colorado! Lupulin Gumbo is a real juicy fruit of a beer, with obscure new-wave varietals HBC 630, Talus and Vista all stirred together.

Enegren Festbier | Festbier (6%): Likely the final Munich-style seasonal lager we are to receive this autumn, this festbier distinguishes itself from Enegren Brewing’s Oktoberfest in a few key ways. That initial release (profiled in these virtual pages all the way back in late August) is a classic Märzen, with a ruddier amber hue and a lower ABV (alcohol by volume) at 5.5%. This iteration hews closer to the “Wies’n” style of lager, paler in color and sturdier in body, which have become more popular at the big event in the Bavarian capital We have a few cans left of the age-old type, so pick up one of each and compare for yourself? Prost!

Moonlight Boney Fingers | Black Lager (6.7%): The incomparable Moonlight Brewing out of Santa Rosa made a name for itself with Death & Taxes, a showstopper of a black lager. Only available on draft for the first quarter-century of the brewery’s existence, I have many fond memories of drinking it at the original Toronado in San Francisco and the now-shuttered Beer Revolution in Oakland’s Jack London Square. Adeptly demonstrating that “dark” and “heavy” are not synonymous in beer, Death & Taxes famously references the only sure things in life. Just in time for Halloween is a heftier version, with all the roast and malt structure that one could demand.

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