What’s Tapping (3/6)

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!

• 3 Punk Ales Brewing (Chula Vista, Little Italy): Cheves de Enero Rye Lager, 3.8%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Trailblazer Non-alcoholic Helles-style Lager, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): IWD (International Women’s Day) IPA, 6.4%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Your Dankness Imperial IPA, 9%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): 100 Percent Triple IPA, 11.3%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Blood of the Old Gods Imperial Stout, 12.2%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Coco Ono Hazy IPA, 6%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): After Party Strawberry Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Daywalker American Red Ale, 6.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Supernova West Coast IPA (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Electric Blues West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Tango’s Up in Blues Tangerine IPA, 6.5%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Warplanes Hazy Pale Ale, 5.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Tourmaline Tan English-style Brown Ale, 5%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Blind Shot Hazy Pale Ale, 5.6%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Guava Lemonade Radler Slushie, 5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Brick by Brick Extra Dry Cider, 8%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Radiant Morning Irish-style Red Ale w/ Coffee, 4.7%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Zeitgeist German-style Pilsner, 4.9%
• Fox Point Brewing (Encinitas): Ale Pacino West Coast IPA, 7%
• Fox Point Brewing (Encinitas): Pink Boots American Pale Ale, 5.5%

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Coco Mesa Nitro Rye Stout w/ Coconut, 6.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): DDH Among Many Hazy IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Just Two Things…Citra & El Dorado Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.7% (collaboration w/ Pure Project Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Like Super Profound Japanese-style Rice Lager, 5% – 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): Hop To Go! Hazy IPA, 6.2%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): We Love L.A. Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): SURveza Mexican-style Lager, 4.5%
• Hop Habit Brewery (Vista): Acid Trip Kettle Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit, 4%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): All Carb Diet Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.2%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Razzle azzle Raspberry-Lime Kettle Sour Ale, 6.95
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Weasel Brown Ale, 5.6%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Yellow Submarine Lemon IPA, 7%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Her Majesty Blonde Ale, 5%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Por Favor Pils, 4.8%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Blood, Sweat & Orange IPA w/ Blood Orange, 6.6%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Devil’s Copper Red Rye Ale, 6.2%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): St. Padraig’s Irish Lager European-style Pilsner, 4.6%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Inversion of Reality Triple Dry-hopped Triple IPA, 10% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Nearly Departed Triple Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): NP German-style Helles, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside): Sea Walk West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• The Original 40 Brewing (North Park): Wired Fences West coast IPA, 6.4%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Coco-Oats Oatmeal Stout w/ Coconut, 6%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Oats Oatmeal Stout, 6%
• Prey Brewing (Vista): Kuma Black Rice Lager, 6%
• Prey Brewing (Vista): Life & Death Hazy IPA, 6.3% (collaboration w/ TapRoom Beer Co.)
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cosmic Dancer West Coast IPA, 7.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Double Dust Murky Double IPA, 8.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Hadron Collider Bavarian-style Hefeweizen, 5.8%
• San Diego Brewing (Mission Valley): San Diego Hazy IPA, 7%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Escape the Heat Watermelon Tajin Sour Ale, 5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): The Fuzz Coffee Stout, 6.7%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): The Fizzicist Hard Seltzer w/ Citrus, 5%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Parking Lots Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Oceanside, Downtown, Point Loma): She’s the Brewer West Coast Double IPA, 8.5% 
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Infiltration Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 7.8%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Tomorrow Will Never Know Baltic-style Porter, 8% (collaboration w/ Varietal Beer Co.)
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Gose-style Ale fermented w/ WLP001 California Ale Yeast
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Gose-style Ale fermented w/ WLP644 Saccharomyces Brux-like Trois Yeast

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Ghost Town / Riip Incidental Mortality | West Coast IPA (7.1%): Any trip to the Bay Area with craft beer in mind would be remiss to omit Oakland. The Town has quietly developed an incredible lineup of breweries and tasting rooms in recent years. Better yet, some of them are sending their creations in our direction as well! Ghost Town Brewing makes absolutely stunning West Coast IPAs, and this collaborative release with Riip Beer Co. out of Huntington Beach is no exception. With hefty amounts of Columbus, Idaho 7, Mosaic and Nectaron in the mix, expect aromas of pineapple, bergamot oranges and fir, with bracingly dry bitterness. Enjoy while listening to the immortal track Ghost Town by The Specials!

Lowercase Nefiltrované Pivo | Czech Pale Lager (4.3%): As if one new lager from Lowercase Brewing were not enough, we were graced with two at at a time! A fascinating study in contrasts with the selfsame brewery’s Purity Law Pils profiled in last week’s column, Nefiltrované Pivo provides a bready malt palate with herbal snappiness. The name translates quite simply to “unfiltered beer” and is an incredibly well-integrated lager. This Seattle operation has proven more than adept at channeling the exacting brewing traditions of Germany and the Czech lands. My hat is off to them. Na Zdraví!

Fremont Coconut & Coffee | Barrel-aged Cuvée (11%): Fremont Brewing (in the eponymous neighborhood of Seattle) is justifiably lauded for its barrel-aged program, second to none on the West Coast. Seemingly one of the last breweries to produce huge oak-aged malt-driven beers in 22-ounce bombers, Fremont consistently lives up to the steeper price-tag that said stouts and barleywines can fetch. These are special occasion beers for sharing and pondering. This preamble leads us into an altogether novel set of releases of late ‒ barrel-aged blends (i.e. cuvées). Coconut & Coffee contains both of those ingredients of course, but they are steeped into a mix of unaged stout and bourbon barrel-aged stout. The resulting brew is younger, vibrant and under six bucks for a 16-ounce can ‒ who could ask for anything more?

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