What’s Tapping (9/11)

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 and Point Loma!

• 3 Punk Ales (Chula Vista, Little Italy): Tribal Seeds Border Town Mexican-style Lager, 5%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Barrel-aged Speedway Stout: Rye Vietnamese Coffee Edition Imperial Stout w/ Coffee
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Ancestral Black IPA, 6.5%
  Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Headbasher Double IPA, 8%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Gavroche French-style Red Ale (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): Beary Me Softly Blueberry IPA, 7%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Born Free American Lager, 4.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Tropicus Blood Orange Pale Ale, 5.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Hasta la Raíz Dark Mexican-style Lager (collaboration w/ Cervecería Insurgente & Wendlandt Cervecería) 
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Festbier, 5.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Modern Retro IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Roggen the Lightning Roggenbier, 4.1%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft & Witty Belgian-style Witbier, 4.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Tourmaline Tan English-style Brown Ale, 5.8%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Ice Tea Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Swinging Mosaic Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• Fall Brewing (North Park): Tora! Japanese-style Lager, 5.2%

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Enjoying the Pleasantries Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): It Just Works Cold IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): 6 Anniversary IPA, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Halo Halo Milkshake IPA w/ Ube, Mango, Coconut, Condensed Milk & Lactose, 6.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Hula Pie Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Macadamia, Chocolate & Vanilla Ice Cream, 10.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Melona Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Honeydew & Coconut, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Ube Milkshake IPA w/ Ube, Coconut & Lactose, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rain or Shine Hazy IPA
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Turntable Belgian-style Table Beer w/ Passionfruit, 4.8% (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Julian Beer Co. (Juilian): Solo Artist New Zealand-hopped IPA, 6.8%
• Julian Beer Co. (Juilian): Wildflowers Fresh-hop IPA, 7.1%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Bride of Dankenstein West Coast IPA, 7%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Dankenstein’s Monster Unfiltered Double IPA, 9.3%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Nightmare Juice Hazy Double IPA, 7.9%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Pineberry West Coast IPA, 6.3%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Rising Hope West Coast Pilsner, 5.3%

• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Oaked Oktoberfest German-style Lager, 5%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Oktoberfest German-style Lager, 5%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Blueberry Blonde Ale, 6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Pure & Simple West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): High Country Wet Hop IPA, 6.8%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): NP Export Dortmunder-style Export Lager, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Sorta Mostly Nelson Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Subatomic Saturation Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Fifteen Candles West Coast IPA, 7.3%
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Lion’s Den West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Lucky 13 Hazy IPA, 6.9%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar, Downtown): Organic Oktoberfest Märzen Lager, 4.8%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): crushcrushcrush Single-hop Extra Pale Ale w/ Krush Hops, 5.5%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Lupulin Luau Wet Hop IPA, 6.2%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Fest Beer, 5.3%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Villain & Associates Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Villains Brewing)
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Fogged In Hazy IPA, 6.4%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Trillium Fort Point | Hazy IPA (6.6%): I was living in the Greater Boston area when Trillium started up, and distinctly recall the first beer I tasted of theirs ‒ a farmhouse ale. How times have changed! In the intervening years the brewery became renowned (alongside fellow Massachusetts operation Tree House) at the forefront of the New England IPA as the substyle evolved into being. Nowadays the common word is “hazy”, but the initial terminology recognized the highly regional nature of its origins. Fort Point is both the neighborhood in which the brewery is situated as well as their flagship offering, replete with Citra and Columbus.

Seek / Bock Festbier | Wies’n-style Festbier (5.3%): As I write these words, Dave Ohmer of Seek Beer Co. has just dropped off this beer at the shop! Commissioned for our fellow Drink Good family member Bock Bar, this is firmly in the Wies’n style of a festbier, with more Pilsner malt than Munich malt. Lighter-bodied and cereal-forward with a hint of toastiness, this is an ideal festbier for the hottest month of the year in San Diego! Spalter Select hops give a kiss of bitterness to balance everything out again. Cheers to Seek and many thanks to Dave and his team!

Bottle Logic Mass Action | Pastry Stout (14.5%): This beer is bananas! No really, this huge dessert stout is just laden with banana, marshmallow and coconut. An imperial stout was aged up in bourbon barrels before getting the ice-cream-parlor treatment. Only the second release of this recipe from Bottle Logic ‒ the initial debut was four years ago ‒ Mass Action is an unabashed celebration of decadence. Go ahead, live a little!

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