What’s Tapping (5/7/26)

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): Coastal Kölsch, 4.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Death Star Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Speedway Stout: Chocolate Hazelnut Edition, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Crease Crusher Non-alcoholic Hoppy Pale, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Fruited Fields Non-alcoholic Radler-style Brew w/ Grapefruit, Raspberry & Blueberry, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Double Dawg Dare Double IPA, 9.3%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Visibility Unknown IPA, 7.2%
BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Cantina Cooler Blonde Ale w/ Watermelon, Cucumber & Strawberry, 5%
Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Strawberry Blonde Ale, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Brewjeria Co. (Chula Vista): Palido American Pale Ale, 5.8%
Brewjeria Co. (Chula Vista): Tren Al Sur West Coast IPA, 6.8%
Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): All Forms Double Dry-hopped Double IPA, 8.5% (collaboration w/ Alvarado Street Brewery) – PURCHASE ONLINE
Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Out of Office Double Dry-hopped IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
California Wild Ales (Point Loma, Ocean Beach): Hive Solo Gin & Mead Barrel-aged Tart Saison w/ Lemon & Honey, 7%
Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Momentum IPA w/ Hibiscus & Guava (collaboration w/ Maui Brewing Co.)
Craft Coast Brewing (San Marcos): Chill Bill Vol. 2 IPA, 7.7%
Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): La Cerveza Micheladas, 4.7%
Deft Brewing (Bay Park): 7 Deftly Sins Barrel-aged Imperial Red Ale, 10.6%
Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Dawn of the Deft English-style Porter on Cask, 5.8%
Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft Poets Society Czech-style Pilsner, 5.3%
Docent Brewing (Carlsbad): Peel Top Extra Pale Ale, 6%
Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Hirono Japanese-style Rice Lager, 5.1%
Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Paloma Hard Seltzer, 5%
Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Citrus Got Real Lemon Radler, 2.9%
Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Darkwing Dunkel Bavarian-style Dark Lager, 4.8%

 

East Village Brewing (East Village): El Capitan Triple IPA, 11%
East Village Brewing (East Village): Stay Calm Amber Lager w/ Coffee, 5.5%
Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Tropical IPA, 6.8%
Good Pressure Brewing (Allied Gardens): Summertime Brown Ale w/ Coffee
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Another Shade of Green Double Dry-hopped IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Friends are the Family You Choose West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Strawberry Shortcake Slushee
Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, 4S Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Li Hing Mui Sour Ale w/ Plum & Salt, 6.1%
Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, 4S Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Oro con Leche Arroz con Leche-inspired Golden Stout w/ Rice, Coffee, Cinnamon, Vanilla, Sweetened Condensed Milk & Lactose, 8%
Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, 4S Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Silent Transmission English-style Pale Ale, 5.5%
Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Bright Horizons IPA, 7%
Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Señorita Mexican-style Lager w/ Hibiscus & Lime, 4.5%
Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Wild Card Blueberry-Lime Hard Seltzer, 3%
Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 4S Ranch, Carlsbad): Karlitos Mexican-style Lager, 4.4%
Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Shelter Island): Kamakura Japanese-style Rice Lager, 4.5%
Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Shelter Island): Krushin’ on Ketch(am) American Pale Wheat Ale, 5.3% (collaboration w/ Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station)
The Lost Abbey Brewing (Vista, San Marcos, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, East Village): Duck Duck Kriek Barrel-aged Belgian-style Sour Ale w/ Cherry, 7%
Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Clear American Light Lager, 4.3% (collaboration w/ Tarantula Hill Brewing)
Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Crescent Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Craft Coast Brewing)
Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Mythosaurus Double Dry-hopped West Coast Pilsner, 5% (collaboration w/ Pizza Port Brewing)
New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Whole Lotta Hazy IPA, 6.8%

Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Red 5 Red Rye IPA, 6.1%
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Bird Park Bohemian-style Pilsner, 4.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Let’s Go Chase Some Waterfalls Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% (collaboration w/ Brujos Brewing & Green Cheek Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Ride the Tiger Triple Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Solana Sour Blackberry Lemonade Sour Ale, 4.3%
Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Pinky Promise Hoppy Lager, 4.9%
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Phoenix Nox Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Coconut, Vanilla, Maple & Coffee, 14.7% (collaboration w/ Horus Aged Ales) – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Small Batch Pils West Coast Pilsner, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Twilight Passage Fouder-aged Saison w/ Blueberry & Mulberry, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Event Horizon Vanilla Porter, 6.9%
The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Rapture Blonde Ale, 5%
Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Drive Around this Town West Coast IPA, 7.1% (collaboration w/ Roses by the Stairs Brewing)
Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Prism Path Hazy Triple IPA, 10.3%
South O Brewing (Oceanside): Sopa de Lima Mexican-style Lager w/ Lime, 4.7%
Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Point Loma): Big Surf Brah Extra Pale Ale, 5.2% (collaboration w/ Tarantula Hill Brewing)
Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Mutsch Love Munich-style Helles Lager, 6.8%
TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Luke, I Am Your Padre West Coast IPA, 7%
Thr3e Punk Ales Brewing (Chula Vista, Little Italy): Flama Blanca Pale Mexican-style Lager, 5%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Please come join us at Bottlecraft Little Italy this Saturday, May 9 for Sour Saturday! Multiple taps of rare and vintage sour beers will be available, alongside an eye-catching bottle list to be enjoyed on the premises or taken home for a special occasion. This event is always a tremendous amount of fun. We hope to see you there!

Drie Fonteinen Hommage 2020 | Fruited Lambic (6.3%): The world lost a giant of traditional lambic in 2022 when Armand Debelder succumbed to prostate cancer. Arguably the world’s most talented blender of traditional lambic at the time of his passing, Armand embodied Drie Fonteinen in the wake of his father Gaston’s own departure to the Elysian fields. With each intervening year since then, there are fewer and fewer bottles of Drie Fonteinen that he had a direct hand in creating. Thus we are delighted to offer a limited number of these bottles of Hommage from the year 2020. Packed to the brim with krieken (cherries) and frambozen (raspberries), these are some of the most fruit-dense beers in the 3F lineup, yet still elegantly dry and funky as befits its lineage. Op uw Gezondheid!

Lyons Peak Handgeplukte Kriek | Belgian-style Kriek (6.2%): Brewing a kriek ‒ spontaneously fermented ale aged in oak with whole cherries macerated in ‒ is one of the most difficult styles of beer to pull off. On top of that, the most prized subtype of cherries for traditional kriek is known as Schaerbeek, after the eponymous town northeast of Brussels. These are beloved for their inherent sourness yet are very finicky, difficult to grow even in Belgium, to say nothing of outside of the Low Countries! It is thus a tour de force that local brewer Chad Stevens successfully managed to raise an orchard in Jamul, and then made an incredible kriek utilizing the fruits of its harvest. The beer has been imbued with a Flemish title, meaning “Hand-picked cherry”, and won a gold medal at the World Beer Cup for the debut batch just two weeks ago. We have Batch One bottles on hand and can eagerly attest to their quality. Congratulations to Chad for an enormously impressive accomplishment. Can beer tourism to Jamul be close behind?

Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes √225 | Sour Saison (5%): We are all familiar with the sour ale traditions of Belgium and Germany, but how about Switzerland? Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes ‒ almost invariably abbreviated to BFM ‒ has singlehandedly put the Alpine nation on the map for acid-driven beers. Better known for Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien, something like an imperial Flemish red, this operation in the tiny township of Saignelégier in Francophone Suisse exports its creations only sporadically, so it is always very exciting when one reaches our shores. √225 (typically spoken out loud as “Square Root 225”) is a rustic saison that is split into two portions, one of which is thereafter aged in used wine casks with wild yeast and souring bacteria, then remarried with itself. The result is dry, fruity, funky and altogether refreshing. À votre santé!

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