What’s Tapping (10/2)

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!

• Asylum Brewing (North Park): Mental Breakdown Hazy IPA, 6.3%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Apricot Acres Non-alcoholic Farmhouse Brew, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Dill Dreams Non-alcoholic Pickle-inspired Brew, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Citrus Cove Lime Sour Ale, 5.9%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): ESB Extra Strong Bitter, 6.3%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Golden Hour West Coast Lager, 4.9%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Key Lime Pie Sour Ale w/ Graham Cracker & Marshmallow Cream on Cask, 5.9%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): PB&J Stout w/ Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Strawberry & Lactose, 6.5%
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Burning Down the Haus German-style Rauchbier, 6% (collaboration w/ I Like Beer the Podcast)
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Breakfast On Tap Barrel-aged Imperial Breakfast Stout, 13% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Hidden Spheres Double Dry-hopped West Coast Pilsner, 5.7% (collaboration w/ There Does Not Exist) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• California Wild Ales (Point Loma, Ocean Beach): I’m Kind of a Big Dill Pickle Beer, 5.4%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Apple Cidezer, 5%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): FestCoast Bier, 6%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Curly Tail Irish-style Red Ale, 5.4%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft & Witty Belgian-style Witbier, 4.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): DeftHopt Feusion Hybrid American-ish IPA, 6.1%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Front 9 Fest German-style Festbier, 5.5%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Sir Mix-a-Berry Hard Seltzer, 5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Something Tropical Sour Ale w/ Guava, 7.2%

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): DDH Sleepin’ In Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Let’s Prost Kölsch, 5.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Naked & Famous Fizz Agave Hard Seltzer w/ Botanicals & Smoked Citrus, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Simcoe!!!! (It’s What We Like Here) Double Dry-hopped Single-hop West Coast IPA w/ Simcoe, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Superdelic!? In This Economy?! Hoppy Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Flor de Fizz Hard Seltzer w/ Hibiscus & Lime, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Marionberry Parfait Sour Ale, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Scorching Bay New Zealand-hopped IPA, 6.5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Pistol Whipped Hazy IPA, 6.6%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Rule of Two German-style Bock, 8.2%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Knots & Hops West Coast IPA, 7%
• Mike Hess Brewing (Ocean Beach): Pumpkin Anchors Aweigh Amber Lager on Cask, 5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Children of the Rye Harvest Wet-hop Red Ale, 6.1%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Green Truck Wet-hop Double IPA, 8.2%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): High Country Wet-hop IPA, 7%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Juicy Not Hazy Wet-hop IPA, 6.3%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Julian Apple Pie a la Mode Apple Ale w/ Vanilla, 6.4%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Valley of the Sun Wet-hop Pale Ale, 5.4%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Shadow Realm Bourbon Barrel-aged Oatmeal Stout on Nitro
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Older Than Bones ’25 Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Party Cup West Coast Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): TDH A Wasp of Bees Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Hop the Pain Double IPA, 8.5%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar): Blueberry Sour Ale, 4.8%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cold Current West Coast Pale Ale, 5.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Noc-Turtle Murky IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Uncovered Roots Imperial Purple Stout w/ Ube, Coconut, Cacao & Coffee, 9% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): ph 3.4 Belgian-style Sour Ale, 7.9%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Headbanger Double IPA, 8.5%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Uncle John’s American Lager, 4.8%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Blueberry-Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 6.5%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Jamaica-Lime Hard Seltzer, 6.5%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Tangelo Hard Seltzer, 6.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Blurred Dreamscape Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Jam Settings PB&J Fruited Sour Ale, 5.5%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Infernum Dunkel Bock, 6.3%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Kiwi Coast West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Mutsch Love Munich-style Helles Lager, 5%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Nightfall Dunkel, 4.9%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Strandbier Kölsch, 5.2%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Experimental Session IPA fermented w/ Experimental Thiol Strain
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Experimental Session IPA fermented w/ Hazy Strain

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

A very special all-fresh-hopped edition of the picks this week!

Fremont Field to Ferment | Fresh-hop Pale Ale (6.1%): Even within the rarefied category of fresh-hopped beers, Fremont Brewing stands out. Their deservedly laudatory “Field to Ferment” series serves to kick-start the autumn every year, with a judicious 6.1% pale ale base upon which the fresh green hop-cones are allowed to express themselves. The only edition of this perennial favorite this year is the recurring blend of Centennial and Simcoe. Drink now ‒ it won’t get any fresher!

pFriem Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Fresh-hop Hazy IPA (6.8%): If you ask me, pFriem Family Brewers may have missed a trick by not naming this beer “pFresh Hop Hazy IPA”, but I am merely a beer retailer and weekly columnist! Wet-hopping is known synonymously as fresh-hopping by our Pacific Northwest neighbors, and since they generously grow most of the hops in this country, we will gracefully defer. More of an unfiltered IPA than an opaque hazy one, this bright offering is a gift from Hood River, Oregon. A rogue’s gallery of varietals ‒ Citra, Mosaic and Eclipse from Yakima Valley, plus fresh iterations of Amarillo and Centennial ‒ makes for a tropical medley and oh so texturally appealing IPA.

Living Haus / Burial Fresh Hop Colin | Fresh-hop West Coast IPA (6.5%): The wizards at Living Haus Beer Co. in Portland, Oregon only send beer in our direction a handful of times annually, while Burial Beer Co. out of Asheville, North Carolina is all but unseen around these parts. What a treat then to receive a collab between the two wildly talented breweries, and a fresh-hopped IPA at that! Drawing upon the Strata varietal ‒ which increasingly serves as the vanguard of the harvest season of late ‒ this beer boasts berry tones and judicious bitterness from the dash of Chinook added in for good measure. All too endearingly, this beer is named after Colin Lenfesty, owner and head brewer at Holy Mountain Brewing, one of the finest breweries in Seattle and arguably the whole world. Cheers to lifelong friendships!

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