What’s Tapping (9/25)

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): Pelotero Imperial IPA, 10%
• Asylum Brewing (North Park): Professional Help Piña Colada Brewed Cocktail, 9.5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Dark & Gourdy Pumpkin-spice Non-alcoholic Brown Ale, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): The Tavern English-style Pale Ale on Cask, 6%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): The Nine Helles Lager
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): Mr. Hanky Brown Ale, 6.3%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Beaver Tail Pale West Coast Pale Ale, 5.4%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Mechanical Hound West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Nectarhedron Hazy IPA, 7.4%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Unfrozen Caveman Lager Doppelbock, 8%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Born Free American Lager, 4.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Coastal Mourning West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Coronado Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): In My Darkest Sour Blueberry Pomegranate Sour Ale, 4.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Smoke Amber Lager (collaboration w/ I Like Beer the Podcast)
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Helles Yeah! Helles-style Lager, 4%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Grow All Out Double Dry-hopped Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): High Key Fresh Hop Extra Pale Ale, 5% (collaboration w/ June Lake Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Same Day Service Fresh Hop IPA, 6.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Krush Wet Hop Dankness Visible Wet Hop IPA, 6.5%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Super Fruit Hard Cider w/ Blueberry, 6%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Super Session IPA, 2.8%

• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Black Forest Summer Schwarzbier, 5.3%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft Hef Hefeweizen, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deftoberfest Märzen, 5.5%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deftoberfest Pils German-style Pilsner, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Don’t Beat a Deft Horse Dunkelweizen, 5.4%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): American Steel IPA
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Hell’s Dubbel Belgian-style Dubbel, 7.3% (collaboration w/ Weir Beer Co. & Viewpoint Brewing)
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Crossing Wizard West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Freehike Double West Coast IPA, 8.5%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Summer in Ryukyu Slated Shikuwasa Lager, 4.5%
• Eppig Brewing (Point Loma): Talons of Fury Hazy Double IPA, 7.7%
• Fox Point Brewing (Encinitas): Foxtoberfest Märzen Lager, 4.7\%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): ASAP As Possible Wet-hop West Coast IPA w/ Citra, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Bier German-style Helles Lager, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Citra!!! (It’s What We Like Here) Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): The Dartboard of Words Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Golden Gai Experimental Lager, 4.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Krutaceous West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Carnal Intent Black IPA, 7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Rooster and the Warlock Red Ale, 6.3%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): From Diego to the Bay IPA
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): It Was All a Dream Hazy IPA
• Latchkey Brewing (Bay Ho): Six-Seven West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Cask & Crown Bourbon Barrel-aged Barleywine-Stout Blend, 12.5%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Nightmare Juice Hazy Double IPA, 7.9%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Nectaron Express West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Hallstatt Munich-style Helles Lager, 4.8%

• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): FestBier German-style Lager, 6%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): OktoberHess German-style Märzen Lager, 5.6%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Fresh As It Gets Fresh-hop IPA, 6.7%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Project X: Mystical Misfit Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Valley Fog Hazy Double IPA, 8.5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Juicy Not Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Sour Apple Pie Ale-Cider Hybrid, 6%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Gerstenwolf German-style Altbier, 5.7%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Ramskol German-style Doppelbock, 8.2%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Dank Before Dying ’25 Double Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Holy Sheets! Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Indie Express Wet Hop West Coast Pilsner, 5.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Infinitely Content Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• OB Brewery (Ocean Beach): Whole Hand Point Agave Milk Stout, 6.3% (collaboration w/ All Things Agave)
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Soft Static Hazy Pale Ale, 5%
• Pizza Port Bressi Ranch (Carlsbad): Pursuit of Hoppyness Imperial Red IPA, 8%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Festbier Munich-style Helles Lager, 4.7%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Rebirth West Coast IPA, 6.4%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park & Bankers Hill): Corylus Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Coffee, Hazelnut & Cacao, 12.9% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park & Bankers Hill): Euphorik with Cherry & Raspberry Oak Barrel-aged Feral Ale, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Pale’s Constant Imperial Pale Ale, 7.8%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Noche Emo Mexican-style Lager, 5.5%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Beat LA San Diego Lager, 5.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): DAMP. Fresh Hop IPA, 6.7%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Cellarmaker West Coast Offense | West Coast IPA (6.3%): The most American sport of all ‒ American football ‒ has begun its season. Fortunately, there is a beer for that! The Bay Area’s very own Cellarmaker Brewing has cooked up a strategy of gameplay with this snappy West Coast IPA. Upon the label is a depiction of a team whose colors oddly resemble that of the San Francisco 49ers, yet whose jerseys are labeled “Mosaic”, “Strata” and so forth in lieu of surnames. Grab a four-pack for game day, and try not to be the armchair quarterback who gets blitzed!

Everywhere / Schilling Something We Return To | Festbier (5.8%): Everywhere Beer Co. has been on a roll with their Schilling Beer Co. collabs. Essentially located at opposite ends of the country (lower left and upper right on the map), these two breweries clearly have an affinity for one another! Something We Return To is a festbier on the paler side of the spectrum, with just the right amount of bitterness to tie it all together. Prost!

Pizza Port Bacon & Eggs | Imperial Coffee Porter (8%): With the possible exception of AleSmith Brewing’s iconic Speedway Stout, no San Diego coffee beer inspires such devotion as Bacon & Eggs from Pizza Port. A sumptuous blend of roasted grains and smooth, earthy coffee, this beer only comes around in the final months of the calendar year. We will be featuring this seasonal delight at Bottlecraft Little Italy all day long this upcoming Sunday, September 28, pouring from the draft into our branded coffee mugs. Guests may take the mug home thereafter!

[Despite the name, Bacon & Eggs is suitable for vegans.]

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