What’s Tapping (2/20)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Coffee & Beer Barleywine w/ Coffee, 9% (collaboration w/ Masthead Brewing)
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Coffee & Beer Black IPA w/ Coffee, 6.8% (collaboration w/ North Park Beer Co.)
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Coffee & Beer Blonde Ale w/ Lactose, Vanilla & Coffee, 6% (collaboration w/ Arizona Wilderness Brewing)
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Coffee & Beer IPA w/ Coffee, 7.3% (collaboration w/ Fort George Brewery)
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Coffee & Beer Kölsch aged on Amburana Wood w/ Coffee, 4.7% (collaboration w/ Reuben’s Brews)
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Coffee & Beer Schwarzbier w/ Coffee, 5.1% (collaboration w/ Firestone Walker Brewing)
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): My Bloody Valentine Hoppy Red Ale, 6.7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Decade of Dank 2025 West Coast Pilsner, 5.5%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Hoppy Lotus Triple IPA, 10.1%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Berries & Cream Berliner-style Weisse w/ Boysenberry & Lemon on Nitro, 4.8%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Bohemian Rhapsody Pilsner, 3.9%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Habanero Sculpin IPA, 7%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): The OG IPA, 6.8%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): We Love L.A. Mexican-style Lager, 4.8%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Chasing the Muse West Coast IPA, 7%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista): First Love Fruit Beer, 4.7%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Horchata Blonde Ale, 6.5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Day Dreamer West Coast Pilsner, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): In My Darkest Sour Raspberry Ale, 4.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Medusa Imperial Milk Stout, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Nelson + Rye San Diego Pale Ale, 6.2%

• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Kneecap Irish-style Red Ale, 4% (collaboration w/ Nickel Beer Co.)
• Culver Beer Co. (Carlsbad): True Hero Double IPA, 8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft Not Daft English-style Pale Mild Ale, 3.2%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deftly Hallows Foreign-style Export Stout, 7.3%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): DubBelGique Belgian-style Dubbel, 6.3%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Patio Hops & Geysers (v2) Fresh-hopped Pale Ale, 6%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): The Hammer Pale Ale, 6.6%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Revision 0 IPA, 7.3%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): COG Bomb Hazy IPA, 6.6%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar, North Park): Kickin’ Simcoe Hazy IPA, 7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): DDH Sleepin’ In Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Don’t Pet the Tiger Double Dry-hopped California Triple IPA, 10.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Fillin’ Out the Empty Space ’25 Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA w/ Phantasm, 8.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Guava in Berlin Berliner-style Weisse w/ Guava, 3.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): More Bark Less Bite ’25 Double Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10.3% (collaboration w/ Alvarado Street Brewery)
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Oh Yeah, No…Totally! German-style Pilsner, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Pet the Tiger ’25 Double Dry-hopped California IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Carrot Cake Golden Stout w/ Cinnamon, Vanilla, Carrot & Cream Cheese, 6.7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Big Fundamental IPA, 6.9% 
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Barreled Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Porter, 11%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Board Schwarz German-style Black Lager, 5.5%

• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Big Sky Double IPA, 9.2%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): 4Season Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Brown Ale w/ Coconut, Chocolate & Coffee, 13%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Keen on Peacharine Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): NP Pils Bavarian-style Pilsner, 4.6%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): POG Blaster Fruited Sour Ale 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Cliff Hanger West Coast IPA, 7%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): In Reverse Altbier, 5.3%
• Pizza Port Bressi Ranch (Carlsbad): Joe D’Arc Hoppy Lager, 5%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Journey Ahead IPA, 7%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Kogatana Japanese-style Lager, 4.7%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Nora the Explorer Mexican-style Lager, 5%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Experience Preferred But Not Always Necessary Murky IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ Green Cheek Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Deep Cuts Hazy IPA, 7.4%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Kwaay Paay Double IPA, 8%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Kwaay Paay Mango Double IPA, 8%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Pink Krush West Coast IPA, 6%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Porchin It Double Pale Ale, 6.9%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Fixed It IPA (collaboration w/ Georgetown Brewing)
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): The Inkwell Black IPA, 7.2% (collaboration w/ Stoup Brewing)
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Lost Highway Hazy IPA w/ Phantasm, 6.6% (collaboration w/ Human People Beer)
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): The Other Level Hazy West Coast IPA w/ Terpenes, 6.7% (collboration w/ Fast Fashion Beer)
• Weir Beer Co. (Vista): We Love L.A. Extra Pale Ale

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

The theme this week is green. All three beers boast green labels!

Pure Project / Green Cheek Experience Preferred *But Not Always Necessary | Hazy IPA (6.7%%): With cans as luminously emerald as the parrots for whom Green Cheek Beer Co. is named, this collaborative hazy IPA brewed at Pure Project Brewing is eye-catching from a distance. Loaded with Citra and Riwaka ‒ the former also in Cryo form ‒ this opaque creation abounds with aromas of key lime and grapefruit sherbet. A beer such as this on your CV would surely land you an interview!

Andechs Vollbier Hell | Helles Lgaer (4.8%): With a brewing lineage stretching back to 1455 ‒ a full six decades before the advent of the Reinheitsgebot ‒ Kloster Andechs sits atop a mountain overlooking the Ammersee, a lake whose shape rather resembles a submarine tipped endwise. This monastic brewery is an easy day-trip southwest of Munich, and one of the more beautiful places on earth to have a beer. And what incredible beer! Flagship Vollbier Hell is a pitch-perfect pale lager, light in body but full in flavor. If you somehow drink too many of these, you can also stay the night at the inn on site, mind you… Prost!

Chimay Cent Cinquante | Belgian Strong Blonde Ale (10%): The predominant trifecta of beers by the Trappists at Chimay have official titles but are popularly referred to by the colors of their labels: Red (a dubbel), White (a tripel) and Blue (a Belgian strong dark ale). This special release initially debuted back in 2012 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the brewery at Scourmont Abbey. Appropriately, although its name is Cent Cinquante (= “150” in French ‒ the delightful English word “sesquicentennial” is a near-calque), drinkers immediately began calling it “Chimay Green”. A hefty 10% in ABV (alcohol-by-volume) with characteristic high carbonation, this beer has more recently joined the roster of year-round offerings. À votre santé!

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