What’s Tapping (5/22)

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 staff 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!

• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Mystic Veil Pale Ae, 6.1%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Triple Palm Triple-hopped Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Black Celebration Black IPA, 6.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): ‘Merica North American Lager, 5.4%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Proximity Orange Blood Orange IPA, 7%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Sun Diego Sour Series: Key Lime Pie Sour Ale, 5.3%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): A New Hop IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Pizza Port Brewing)
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): Sclaff Dark Mexican-style Lager, 5.1%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Here Comes the Fun IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Summer of 66 Hazy IPA, 6.6% (collaboration w/ BLAH Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): BBR American Light Lager, 4.2%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Hopmata San Diego IPA, 7%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Vaquero Hazy IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ King Cong Brewing)
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Salty Crew Hibiscus Blonde Ale, 4.5%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Small Batch Passion Fruit Hard Cider, 5.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Austere Abbot Belgian-style Singel, 4.9%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft & Witty Belgian-style Witbier, 4.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Defty Hallows Foreign Export Stout, 7.3%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Bitter Foreman IPA, 6%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Freight Damage IPA, 7.5%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Nobility English-style Pale Ale, 7%
• Docent Brewing (Carlsbad): Riders on the Storm West Coast Red Ale, 6% (collaboration w/ Tarantula Hill Brewing)
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Tara Iti Haze New Zealand-style Hazy IPA, 6.9%

• East Village Brewing (East Village): Revel Raspberry Sour Ale, 7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Like Super Profound Japanese-inspired Rice Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): New Adventures Nitro Golden Milk Stout w/ Coffee, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Qualified Compliments Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): This Page Intentionally Left Blank Double Dry-hopped California IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Mango Suman Mango Sticky Rice-inspired Lager, 4.8% (collaboration w/ Ambitious Ales)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): West Coast Pilsner w/ Corn & Agave, 5.6% (collaboration w/ Tarabaña)
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): All I See Turns to Brown American Brown Ale, 5.8%
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): Awareness Management Session IPA, 4.2%
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): El Duderino German-style Pilsner, 5.5%
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): Here Comes Sunshine India Pale Lager, 6.5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Apocalyptical Tropical West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Red Planet Tangerine IPA, 6.3%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Red, White & Brew American IPA, 7.3%
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Feather Weight Gluten-reduced IPA, 5.2%
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Noctua Irish-style Stout, 5.5%
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Picnic Punch Fresca Seltzer
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): The Red-breasted Lager Michelada-style Red Beer
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Solita Baja-style Lager, 4.5%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Higher Times Triple IPA, 11%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Pickle My Vice Berliner-style Weisse, 3.5%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Belgian-style Blonde Ale, 6.8%

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Crispy-Fu! West Coast Pilsner, 5.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Origins of Fu! Triple Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Synapse Saturation Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% (collaboration w/ Cerebral Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): TDH Dream Collector Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): TDH Infinite Content Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): 15th Anniversary IPA, 7%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Fahza Dutch-style Kuyt Multigrain Beer, 5.5% (collaboration w/ Jopen Bier)
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Krisp Kölsch, 4%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Sunlit Escape Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Summer Visit IPA
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Grapefruit Puncher West Coast IPA w/ Grapefruit, 7%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Gringo Loco Baja Lager, 4.6%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Navigator Strawberry Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Triton Old English-style Pale Ale, 5.2%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Vista Way West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Murkshake with Strawberry Murky Triple IPA w/ Strawberry & Vanilla, 9.2%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Sunset Crush Cream Ale w/ Strawberry & Vanilla, 5.8%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): North Fortuna American IPA, 7%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): That Adds Up Hazy IPA, 5.7% (collaboration w/ Tarabaña)
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Oceanside, Downtown, Point Loma): Imperial Notorious P.O.G. Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit, Orange & Guava, 8%
• Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Point Loma): 12th Anniversary Cold Black Double IPA w/ Terpenes, 8.3%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Golf Casual West Coast IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ Åben & Ruse Brewing)

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Last Saturday, Bottlecraft North Park played host to a worldwide Phase Three Brewing event, celebrating that Illinois brewery’s flagship Citra-hopped hazy IPA, Pixel. As part and parcel, we debuted three collaborative beers from celebrated breweries around the world: Omnipollo from Sweden, Trillium Brewing from Boston and North Park Beer Co. from right across the street! We were honored to be one of just three places in California taking part. Stop on by to taste or take home one or all of the following:

Phase Three / Trillium Pixel Point | Hazy IPA (7%): An unabashed love letter to the Citra varietal, this collaboration with the renowned Boston operation, Trillium, is a mashup of sorts of two core beers. The base recipe of Pixel by Phase Three is 100% Citra-hopped, while Fort Point by Trillium combines Citra with classic Pacific Northwest stalwart Columbus. Pixel Point is a blend of Citra from both breweries, with Trillium’s lot being hand-selected. This version is the most austere on the malt front, turning the volume up on Citra!

Phase Three / Omnipollo Pixel Fata | Hazy IPA (7.2%): The extraordinary Henok Fentie is the mastermind behind the beer at Stockholm’s Omnipollo. His business partner, Karl Grandin, creates the eye-catching art festooning the labels, instantly recognizable at a glance. Lending two syllables to this collaborative hazy IPA is Omnipollo’s Fatamorgana, named for a confounding sort of mirage in which a distant object appears to split into multiple layers. And well it may be, for this beer has untold depths to explore! Hopped with Citra and Nelson Sauvin, this iteration has that familiar gooseberry tone from the latter varietal. Those who enjoy The Pupil by Societe Brewing as well as hazy IPAs will surely be fans!

Phase Three / North Park Beer Co. Art is Pixel | Hazy IPA (7%): Easily the densest and most opaque of the lineup, Art is Pixel takes a page from NPBC flagship Art is Hard, the beer one can always find on draft at Panama 66 in Balboa Park (hint: affixed to the San Diego Museum of Art). With the most complex hop-bill of them all, this beer will reward patient drinkers. Citra, Simcoe and my personal favorite New Zealand varietal, Motueka can all be found in the mix. Cheers to Phase Three and all of their partner breweries!

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