What’s Tapping (10/16)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Orchid Sky Rosé Cider w/ Apple & Wine Grapes, 7.8% (collaboration w/ Oddish Wine Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Stack Me Greens Fresh Hop IPA, 7%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Stump Jump Non-alcoholic Autumn Brown Brew, < 0.5%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Don’t Fear the Steeper Hard Tea with Peach, 5%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): TurboZero Non-alcoholic Hop Seltzer, 0%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Witching Hour Coffee Stout, 5.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Golden Hour Hoppy Lager, 4.9%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): Lecker German-style Pilsner, 5.6%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): Solsource Session IPA w/ Orange, 5.6%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Pineapple Milkshake IPA, 6.1%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (San Marcos, Oceanside): Fresh Hop Old West IPA, 7.4%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Black IPA, 6.6%
• Culver Beer Co. (Carlsbad): 9th Anniversary West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Bruxelles Trip Belgian-style Tripel, 9.2%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft de Garde Biere de Garde, 6.4%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): DeftHopt Feusion American-ish Hybrid IPA, 5.2%
• Docent Brewing (Carlsbad): Otter Pops IPA, 6%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Cascade Krush West Coast Pilsner, 5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Something Tropical Guava Sour Ale, 7.1%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar, Kearny Mesa, North Park): Swinging Mosaic Hazy IPA, 7%

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Adjust for Inflation West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): %Festbier ’25 Oktoberfest Lager, – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): In the Now Fresh Hop West Coast IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Just One Thing…Krush Double Dry-hopped Single-hop Hazy Double IPA w/ Krush, 8.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Lost in My Kaleidoscope Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Now Open in Transylvania West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Electric Renaissance Tropical IPA, 6.9%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Schwarzbier German-style Dark Lager, 5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Howl Stout, 6.3%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Where’s Vera? Amber Lager, 5.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Peanut Butter Cup Porter, 5.6%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Double Negative West Coast IPA, 7.5%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Electrostatic French-style Farmhouse Ale, 11%
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Magpie Pilsner, 5.2%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Hoptapus Citra-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.6%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): The Royalist Bourbon Barrel-aged Hazelnut Pastry Stout w/ Coffee, 13%
• Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Wanaka Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.3%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Magna Cucurbita Pumpkin Pie Stout, 7.3%

• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Brewers Special Brown Ale on Cask, 6.6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Rabble Rouser Red Ale, 5%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Whoopass American Lager, 4.8%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Art is Hard Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Simpler Division Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Stratacadabra Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Cosmic Harvest Fresh Hop IPA, 7.3%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Millennium Break West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Moonwake West Coast Pilsner, 5.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Return to the Mirage Murky Double IPA, 8.5% (collaboration w/ Everywhere Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rum Barrel-aged Belgian Sour Ale, 7.9%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Uncle John’s American Lager, 4.8%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): San Diego Gold Kölsch, 5.4%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Orderly Chaos Fresh Hop West Coast IPA (collaboration w/ TapRoom Beer Co.)
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Wild 101 Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout, 13%
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Oceanside, Downtown, Point Loma): Enjoy By 01.01.26 Double IPA, 9.4%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Nightfall Munich-style Dunkel Lager, 5.2%
• Viewpoint Brewing (Del Mar): Rolling Clouds Fresh Hop IPA, 7%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Riip Neltra | West Coast IPA (7%): Some beers just name themselves. This latest interstellar offering from Riip Beer Co. out of Huntington Beach is loaded with Nelson and Citra hops ‒ the title of the beer is a neologism portmanteau of those two varietals, simple as that! White grapes, gentle pine and some orange peel are to be expected from this one.

ISM Hamburghini | Italian-style Pilsner (4.9%): I, for one, welcome our new Italian Pilsner overlords. Now a recognized part of the lager landscape, these dry-hopped Pilsners (typically brewed with Bavarian-grown Noble hops or their descendants) have captured the palates of drinkers all throughout Southern California. A cheerful high-carbonation pale lager with floral and citric aromatics from the Saphir and Sterling hops leads to an altogether crisp finish. Cin-cin!

AleSmith Barrel-Aged Speedway Stout Hammerhead Edition | Barrel-aged Coffee Imperial Stout (13.5%): A number of years ago, I stepped off the daily San Diego-to-London flight, exhausted and already feeling the early stages of jet lag. My transfer to the continent was some hours away, and I knew that a strong coffee would hasten the adjustment to the new time-zone (as well as stave off the lack-of-caffeine headaches). Summoning up a handful of antiquated pounds sterling coins, I blearily asked the young Kazakh woman behind the counter at the bustling Heathrow café for a “hammerhead”, to which she quite rightly stared back at me blankly. I guess our provincial terminology had not yet made the jump across the pond! After clarifying that I wanted a long black coffee with a shot of espresso thrown in, order was restored to the world. This barrel-aged edition of Speedway Stout is similarly loaded up with espresso alongside the usual coffee, and may alter your sense of time even if you are not in transit!

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