What’s Tapping (5/11/23)

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 IPA, 6.2%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Don’t Call Me White IPA, 7.5%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): More Cow Bell Double IPA, 8.5%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Smooth Sailin’ Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Ripe Pursuit Non-alcoholic Lemon Radler, < 0.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Biscuits British-style Strong Ale, 6.4%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Branded & Barreled Mexican Chocolate Cake Barrel-aged Imperial Pastry Stout, 14.2%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Hazers Gonna Haze Hazy IPA, 6.6%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Tropical Terps IPA w/ Terpenes, 6.6%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): After Party Peach Ginger Lime Moscow Mule Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Three Day Vacation Margarita Gose, 4.3% (collaboration w/ Embolden Beer Co.)
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Lagoon View Double IPA, 8%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Tangled Bines Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Strung Out on Lasers West Coast IPA, 6.6%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Chillveza Cold IPA, 6.6% (collaboration w/ Artifex Brewing)
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Coastal Hazy IPA, 7%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Black Forest Summer Schwarzbier, 5.3%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftoberfest Märzen, 5.8%

• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftoberfest Pils German-style Pilsner, 5.3%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Don’t Beat a Deft Horse Dunkelweizen, 6%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Half-A-Weizen Hefeweizen, 5.1%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Kirschbier Gose w/ Cherry, 4.3%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Lemonade & Guava Radler Slushie, 5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): El Capitan Triple IPA, 10.5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Sandlot Saison, 4.7%
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, La Jolla, Point Loma): Little Secret Milk Stout, 4.1%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Bernard Dark Czech-style Lager, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Black Cherry Sour Ale w/ Black Currant, Raspberry & Cherry, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Waimea Haze Hazy IPA, 7%
• Helia Brewing (Vista): Pescadito Mexican-style Lager, 4.8%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Fruit by the Fawkes Kettle Sour Ale, 7.1%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Juice Box Hero Imperial Hard Seltzer w/ Tangerine, Passionfruit, Key Lime & Apricot, 8%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): My Dear Watson English-style Brown Ale, 5.6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Slow Motion Imperial Stout w/ Vanilla, 12%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): El Gato Lager, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Pale for Breakfast Pale Ale, 5%

• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): South Island West Coast IPA, 7.1%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 4S Ranch, Carlsbad): El Tráfico Mexican-style Lager, 5%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): MT: Helles Lager, 4.5%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Trend Laser Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Big Mother Triple IPA, 10.5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Paesanos Italian-style Pilsner, 5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Smiley Eyes Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% (collaboration w/ Everywhere Beer)
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Execute Order 586 IPA
• Pizza Port Brewing (Solana Beach): Albatross IPA, 7%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): A Scheer Blast West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Saison du Scheer, 6.8%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Diamond Dust Murky IPA, 6.7%
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Blueberry Pi Cream Ale w/ Blueberry, 5%
• Second Chance Beer Co. (Carmel Mountain Ranch): Pupapalooza Festival Guava Wheat Ale, 4.5%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): R&D MayW2 Pale Ale, 4.9%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Whaley Street West Coast Rye IPA, 6.8%
• Three Frogs Beer Co. (Santee): My Cousin’s Brown Ale, 7.4%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Wren House Spellbinder | Hazy IPA (7%): As the name implies, Wren House’s flagship hazy IPA is indeed transfixing. 3D-style multichromatic blurred text against a white background captivates the eye, while the contents of the can perform a similar act for the senses of smell and taste. This beer stunned the world outside of Arizona when it took gold at the 2020 Great American Beer Festival, but San Diegans who spend time in that state were already well-informed. Exploring the familiar interplay of Mosaic and Citra in the dry-hop, but with a clever Cascade curveball in the whirlpool, this beer only appears in town every now and then, so take advantage of the fact it’s here now.

Heater Allen Lenzbock | Maibock (6.2%): As the spring-lager season draws to a close, enjoy one last Maibock. Showing fidelity to both ingredients and process, Heater Allen brews this lenzbock (“spring bock”) with Vienna and Pilsner malts, resulting in a ruddy goldenrod hue. Floral sweetness on the nose gives way to a splash of grainy, herbal bitterness. Prost!

Fremont Brew 7000 | Barrel-aged English-style Barleywine (13.9%): To commemorate every thousandth brew, Fremont Brewing does a limited release of a very special barrel-aged barleywine. Leaning English in style rather than American (think J.W. Lees Harvest Ale rather than Sierra Nevada Bigfoot), each of these releases in the “Brew x000” series is an unapologetic malt bomb, with raisin and sticky toffee tones. Sixteen months in used bourbon barrels imparts layers of vanillin and oak to tie it all together. Cheers to Fremont for 7,000 successful brew days. We look forward to many more!

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