What’s Tapping (10/19)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Barrel-aged Speedway Stout, 13.3%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Evil Dead Red Ale, 6.6%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Fresh Hop Double IPA, 8.2%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Kōkua Session IPA, 4.2% (collaboration w/ Maui Brewing)
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): More Cow Bell Double IPA, 8.5%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Unstoppable Object IPA, 7.1%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Citrus Cacao Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Stump Jump Non-alcoholic Autumn Brown Ale, < 0.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, Eastlake): Gambino Imperial Coffee Stout, 8.5%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, Eastlake): Haunted Hut Spooky Tropical IPA, 6%
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Lp HiFi Lager 
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Sensory IPA, 7%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Garage Day OG West Coast IPA, 7.5%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Chief’s Cherry Wheat Ale w/ Cherry, 5.4%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park): Over the Sea West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Dawn of the Deft English-style Porter, 6.4%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Denali Dank Cold IPA, 6.1%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Death Radler Beer Slushies, 5%

• East Village Brewing (East Village): Lauda Lager Vienna-style Lager, 4.9% 
• East Village Brewing (East Village): The Simple Life Rosé-inspired Raspberry Ale, 9%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar): Danger is My Business Double Dry-hopped Double IPA, 8%
• Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): !Enjoy Yourself! Hazy IPA, 6.8%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Blackberry Cobbler Sour Ale w/ Vanilla, Graham Cracker & Cinnamon, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Coastal Cowboy Dry-hopped Light Lager, 4%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Juice Box Hero Tropical-fruited Hard Seltzer, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Pat’s Blue Ribbon American Light Lager, 4.2%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rémission Possible Red Fruits Kettle-sour Ale, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Kölsch, 5.6%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Oktoberfest Märzen, 4.5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Thursday IPA, 6.7%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Hazy & the Hendersons Hazy IPA, 7%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): K-58 Mexican-style Lager, 5.5%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Kilowatt Pale Ale, 5.6%
• Mason Ale Works (Miramar): Weapon X Hazy IPA, 7%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Parallel Paradise IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.)
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Impact Strategy Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Vienna Lager, 5.5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): 10th Anniversary Triple IPA, 10.4%

• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Moondance Black IPA, 6.7%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Friends & Reapers Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% (collaboration w/ Messorem) – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hitcha with Citra West Coast Pilsner, 5% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – BUY ONLINE
• One Season Brewing (Grantville): Impish or Admirable? Helles-style Lager, 5%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Head in the Clouds Hazy IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ GOAL. Brewing)
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Finding Paradise West Coast IPA, 7%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Distant Stargazer Murky Double IPA, 8.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Sakura West Coast IPA w/ Rice, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Pizza Port Brewing) – BUY ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Gaslamp Chocolate Robust Porter w/ Cacao Nibs, 5.7%
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Lobster Lounge West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Refined Exploration West Coast IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Living Häus Brewing)
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): The Bachelor Wet Hop w/ El Dorado, 6.8%
• Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Point Loma): Eli Palma / Stone Kuiki New Zealand Light Lager, 5.3% (Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Point Loma): Matt’s Burning Rosids Imperial Cherrywood-smoked Saison, 10.5%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Conspire as One Hazy IPA, 8% (collaboration w/ Prey Brewing)
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): Triple Overhead Double IPA, 9.5%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): Westbier Märzen, 5.5%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Great Notion Beetlejuice Jr. | Hazy IPA (6%): It’s showtime! Just in time for Halloween, Great Notion has dropped a trifecta of outré offerings. Taking a cue from the brewery’s immensely popular Juice Jr., meet none other than Beetlejuice Jr., the self-described ‘bio-exorcist” and all-around agent of chaos in the striped outfit. With a dry-hop of nothing but Mosaic, let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose. I cannot promise that if you say the name of this beer three times, it will appear in front of you…but give it a whirl just to be sure?

Great Notion Evil Red | Tart Red Ale (8.1%): All right you primitive screw-heads, listen up! With one of the more macabre labels to grace our shelves of late, Evil Red pays homage to the Sam Raimi trilogy of Evil Dead films. With a cornucopia of fruits (apple, apricot, guava, passionfruit, pineapple and tangerine) all blended into purée, expect a veritable crimson vortex of flavors. Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart…oh, and Bottlecraft!

Great Notion Boo Berry Muffin | Smoothie Sour Ale (6%): With the possible exception of the maple-infused stout, Double Stack, no beer has served as a more prominent calling card for Great Notion as Blueberry Muffin. This confounding tart ale smells precisely like a convenience-store blueberry muffin, fresh out of the plastic. A special edition has been conjured into being for All Hallows’ Eve, dosed with marshmallow cereal for that Saturday morning cartoons feeling of nostalgia. Cheers and happy Halloween to all!

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