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What’s Tapping (10/12)

Our weekly list of freshly tapping beers with quality Bottlecraft recommendations

Brandon HernándezOctober 12, 2023
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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 staffers’ recommendations about beers they are excited about that can be found at their bottle shop locations in North Park, Little Italy, Point Loma and Oceanside!

  • Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Unstoppable Object West Coast IPA
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Barometer Drop Baltic-style Porter, 8.5%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Down on the Corner Corn Wine, 8.7% (collaboration w/ East Village Brewing)
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): East to West IPA, 6.8%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Hop Soda Brut Session India Pale Lager, 5.3%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): India Street Collection #10 Cherry-soured Baltic-style Porter, 11%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): North Bank Bitter English-style Bitter, 3.8% (collaboration w/ Eppig Brewing)
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Single Dubbel Session Belgian-style Dubbel, 5%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Smokepoint Bamberg-style Rauchbier, 7.3%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Ten Guinea Wee Heavy, 7.7% (collaboration w/ Societe Brewing)
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Three Hour Tour Triple IPA
  • Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Highly Likely Batch #2 Hoppy Lager
  • Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Day Walker Red Ale, 6.1% – BUY ONLINE
  • Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): In My Darkest Sour Kettle Sour Ale w/ Blueberry & Pomegranate, 4.6% – BUY ONLINE
  • Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Paradise Hazy Pale Ale, 5.5%
  • Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Mosaic Roots Hazy IPA, 6.5% – BUY ONLINE
  • Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Park Pass West Coast Pilsner, 5.7% (collaboration w/ Highland Park Brewery) – BUY ONLINE
  • Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): BBR American Light Lager, 4.2%
  • Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Festbier, 6.2%
  • Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Horchata Coast Roast Coffee Cream Ale, 4.8%
  • Deft Brewing (Morena): DeftHopt Red IPA, 5.7%
  • Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftly Hallows Foreign-style Export Stout, 7.3%
  • Deft Brewing (Morena): Sunset in Bruges Flanders-style Sour Red Ale, 5.4%
  • Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): American Dream Pale Ale, 5.8%
  • Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Negra Magnifico Dark Lager, 5.8%
  • Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Orange Creamsicle Beer Slushie, 5%
Tiger’s Blood, a specialty IPA brewed by Harland Brewing with Maui Brewing, is one of many beers from San Diego County breweries which have been brewed to help raise funds for people impacted by the Maui wildfires
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Blood Moon Blood Orange & Pineapple Super Fruited Hard Seltzer, 7%
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Midnight in Tokyo Hazy Matcha IPA, 7.5%
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Poisoned Apple Green Apple, Pear & Cinnamon Hard Seltzer, 5%
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): This Stein O’ Mine Dry-hopped Festbier, 6.1% (collaboration w/ Hopnonymous Brewing)
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Vampire’s Kiss Blackberry Limeade Hard Seltzer, 5%
  • Fall Brewing (North Park): Señor Mangose Sour Ale w/ Mango, Chamoy & Tajin, 5.4%
  • Five Suits Brewing (Vista): Planet Nectaron Hazy IPA, 7%
  • GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Kampeon Philippine-style Rice Lager, 5%
  • GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Shattered Backboards Ones Hazy IPA, 7%
  • GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Ube Haz Hazy IPA w/ Ube, 6.7%
  • Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park): Tiger’s Blood Ale, 7% (collaboration w/ Maui Brewing)
  • Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Helix Pale Ale, 4.8%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Dragon Fruit IPA Hazy Triple IPA w/ Dragon Fruit, 11%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hazy Talk Hazy IPA, 6.5%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Honey Pale Ale, 4.7%
  • Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Bailey’s Ghost Smoked Pumpkin Porter, 8%
  • Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Blood Red IPA w/ Beets
  • Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Valley, 4S Ranch, Carlsbad): Brisky Business Cold IPA, 6.5% (collaboration w/ Harland Brewing)
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Chocolate Macadamia Stout, 6.2%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Hazy & the Hendersons Hazy IPA, 7%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): K-Pop Korean-style Lager, 4.5%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Wir Trinken German-style Fest Bier, 6.2%
  • Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Alpha Therapy Mega-hopped IPA, 7%
  • Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): 10 Minutes Double Dry-hopped Easy IPA, 6.5%
  • Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Business Oracle Hazy Double IPA, 9%
Downtown’s Resident Brewing has released its seasonally driven Pumpkin by Doug, a pumpkin-spiced brown ale brewed with coffee and marshmallows

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Fremont Head Full of Fresh Hops | Wet-hopped Hazy IPA (6.8%): Rare indeed does a brewery land back-to-back inclusions in this weekly column. Fremont Brewing’s wet-hopped program is so advanced that it merits such a spotlight. A riff on their recurring Head Full of Dynomite [sic] series ‒ already an excellent hazy IPA with endlessly rotating varietals ‒ this beer features fresh cones dropped into the brew kettle less than 24 hours after picking. This year’s iteration is an unadulterated blast of 100% Citra. Drink it today, as it won’t be any fresher tomorrow!

Sante Adairius Reasonable Reasons | Hazy IPA (6.3%): Planning to travel to the East Bay in the near future, but can’t quite make the trek down to Santa Cruz or Capitola? Fear not, for Sante Adairius Rustic Ales has now firmly ensconced itself in the former location of The Trappist in downtown Oakland. I paid a visit in August and had a deliriously good time with old friends and new alike. If none of this is on your upcoming itinerary, however, surely you have Reasonable Reasons ‒ drop by Bottlecraft and pick up a can of the same! An altogether elegant hazy IPA with Citra, Mosaic and Strata hops should tide you over for the time being.

Cellarmaker Double Mount Nelson | Hazy Double IPA (8.2%): For all the climbers out there! Cellarmaker Brewing’s longstanding relationship with Freestyle Farms on the south island of New Zealand once again allows for a beautiful crop of Nelson. All the gooseberry, Sauvignon Blanc and diesel that a Nelson-lover can desire, crowning an opaque and satisfying double IPA.

Click here to explore the quality beers at Bottlecraft’s four San Diego locations.

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Brandon HernándezOctober 12, 2023
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