What’s Tapping (5/18/23)

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. 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): Major Pour San Diego IPA, 6.2%
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Hermit’s Graff Apple Ale, 5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Live Stream Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Moving Ryeght Along rye Pale Ale, 5.3%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Lucky Gato Japanese-style Rice Lager, 5.2%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Ragnahop Hazy IPA, 6.3%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Ziggy Sourdust Fruited Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit, 5.5%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista): Deep Rooted Imperial IPA, 8.9%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): After Party Hard Seltzer Peach, Ginger, Lime Moscow Mule, 5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Down the Hatch New Zealand-hopped IPA (collaboration w/ Booze Brothers Brewing)
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Electric Blues West Coast IPA, 7.8%
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Gonzo Mania Japanese-style Lager, 5%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Experimental Uno Hazy Blonde Ale w/ Cucumber & Lime, 5%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): JAG Attitude American Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Mi Amiga Mexican-style Lager
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Lemonade & Guava Radler Slushies, 5%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Day Off in Kyoto Matcha IPA, 6.5%

• Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): A Cold Day in Hell Cold IPA, 6.8%
• Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): Watermelon Jazz Hands Kettle Sour Ale w/ Watermelon, 5.4%
• Half Door Brewing (East Village): Coleman’s on Craic Imperial Stout, 9.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Back to the Phuture II Hazy Double IPA, 8% (collaboration w/ North Park Beer Co. & Pure Project Brewing)
• Helia Brewing (Vista): Cooolifornia Cold Pale Ale, 5.7%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Fun Times Blonde Ale, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): El Gato Mexican-style Lager, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hazy Talk Hazy IPA, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Reaper Pale Ale, 5%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Toetoes Bay Hazy IPA, 7.1%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Ya Boi West Coast IPA, 7%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Parallel Paradise Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): 10 Degrees of Night Czech-style Dark Lager, 4%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Art is Hard Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Back to the Phuture III Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% (collaboration w/ Harland Brewing & Pure Project Brewing)
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Mr. Hoppy Dank Supreme IPA, 7.1%
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Mama Bear Strong Blonde Ale, 6.7%

• One Season Brewing (Grantville): SPF 6.0 Hard Seltzer, 6%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): IBPA IPA, 6.5%
• Plan 9 Alehouse (Escondido): Lethal Mullet Double IPA, 9%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Another Session IPA, 5%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Mikey’s Greens Super West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Atomic Hop Murky Quadruple IPA, 13%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Back to the Phuture I Murky IPA, 6.5% (collaboration w/ Harland Brewing & North Park Beer Co.)
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Olde Kensington English-style Barleywine
• Rough Draft Brewing (Miramar, University City, Carmel Valley): Snap Crackling Ale w/ Rice, Marshmallow & Vanilla, 4.1%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Coordinated Reprise Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Devil’s Played Belgian-style Golden Strong Ale, 9.6%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): MEEP! Double Dry-hopped IPA, 6.6%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Super Duper American Premium Lager, 4.8%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): TapRoom White Belgian-style Witbier, 5.4%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Vienna Lager, 4.8%
• Thorn Brewing (Barrio Logan, Mission Hills, North Park): Essential Series – DDH Sun Soaked West Coast IPA, 7%
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): PB & Jam Imperial Pastry Sour Ale, 8.5%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Living Haus Nate | West Coast IPA (7%): Living Haus is the third project to occupy the brewery space at the corner of SE 7th and Belmont in Portland, Oregon, over a five-year span. Initially the much-beloved “urban farmhouse” brewery, The Commons, then the Oregonian outpost for Modern Times, this location brought in beer-lovers attracted by proximity to Cascade Brewing and the (now sadly extinct) Hair of the Dog Brewing. Now, two of the brewers from Belmont Fermentorium have picked up the baton and continue their work on the same system. I paid a visit this past August and had a grand time drinking their lagers and tart ales (and can furthermore recommend the yuzu ramen joint Afuri Izakaya right next door). This beer is a collaboration with North Park Beer Co. and is a tribute to the one and only Nate Soroko. Drink this IPA, which is laden with Citra, Mosaic, Nelson and Simcoe, while remembering dear friends and beer establishments that are no longer with us.

Everywhere Delicious Moments | Italian-style Pilsner (5.1%): Everywhere Beer is the most exciting new brewery to open in Orange County in some time. We have been consistently impressed with their hoppy offerings (both hazy and clear) and lagers thus far, so when this Italo-Pils popped up, we did not hesitate to include it on the docket. Delicious Moments lives up to the title, being crisp and snappy with a gentle dry-hopping of Saphir for citric overtones. Cheers to the team at Everywhere for further enlarging the OC beer scene! 

Alvarado Street Triple Howzit Punch | Fruited Kettle Sour Ale (10%): Formerly entitled “Triple Haole Punch” (a double reference to the children’s sugar concoction Hawai’ian Punch but also a Polynesian term for non-islanders), this kettle-sour is both inordinately refreshing and hides its high ABV (alcohol-by-volume) 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 (passionfruit, orange, 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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