What’s Tapping (11/16)

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 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!

• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Llama Goat Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Orange You Different Hazy IPA, 7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): The Seagull has Landed West Coast IPA, 6.4%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Trigger Finger West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): The Fruitful Path Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Non-alcoholic Fireside Brew, < 0.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): East to West IPA, 6.8%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Three Hour Tour Triple IPA, 11%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Staffordshire’s Best Bitter on Cask, 4.8%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Dole Whip Pineapple Milkshake Turtle Pope Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Medusa Imperial Milk Stout, 8.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Nyjah Hazy IPA, 7% – BUY ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Tony Hawps West Coast IPA, 6.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Everybody’s Juicin’ Hazy IPA, 7.1% – BUY ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Super-Delish New Zealand-hopped IPA, 6.8% – BUY ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Piper at the Gates of Fog Hazy IPA, 7.5%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Postmodern Prometheus 2023 Imperial Stout, 11.2%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Black IPA, 7.2%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Austere Abbot Belgian-style Singel, 4.9%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Wallonian Shadows Belgian-style Dark Ale, 5.5%

• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Pumpkin Pie Beer Slushies, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Purple Reign Imperial Sour Ale, 9%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Amici Italian-style Pilsner, 4.8% (collaboration w/ Alder Beer Co.)
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Nine Year Anniversary Dark Mexican-style Lager, 5.4%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Juice+ Double Mango Smoothie Ale w/ Mangoes, 6%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Salzburg Red West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Creamsicle Milkshake IPA, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Four IPA, 7.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Red Pomelo Foeder-fermented Belgian-style Witbier, 5%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Stoner Moment IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Ice Ice Hazy IPA, 7.1%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rad Santa Winter Warmer, 8.2%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Honey Pale Ale, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Red Rye Beer, 6%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Saturday IPA, 6.5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Mental Drift IPA, 6.3%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Christmas Ale w/ Honey, Ginger, Nutmeg & Cinnamon, 9.6%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Hazy Country Tales Hazy IPA, 7%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Dankster for Life Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Parallel Paradise Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.)
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Mixed Berry Hard Seltzer
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Bunelos Aga Banana Donut Golden Stout, 6% (collaboration w/ Howsit Brewing)

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Covington American Pilsner, 6% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Flor de Muerto Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Human People Beer) – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Interstellar Excursion Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, San Clemente): Santa’s Little Helper Imperial Stout, 10%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Cold Dynamics Cold IPA, 7.2%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): GCS Golden Coffee Stout, 5.6%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): PilsGnar Bohemian-style Pilsner, 5.7%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Rye-Fi Honey Rye Ale, 5.6%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Saffron Don Belgian-style Farmhouse Ale, 4.8%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cosmic Dancer West Coast IPA, 7.4%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Home for the Holihaze Murky Double IPA, 8.8% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.) – BUY ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Sky Splash Smoothie Beer w/ Blueberry & Raspberry, 6% – BUY ONLINE
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Common Shores West Coast Pilsner, 6.2% (collaboration w/ Cerveceria Transpeninsular, Grains of Wrath Brewing, Trap Door Brewing & Wren House Brewing)
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): Vice Apricot Peach Berliner-style Weisse, 5.2%
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): Vice Watermelon Strawberry Berliner-style Weisse, 5.2%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

El Segundo Inspiration | Harvest IPA (7.2%): Like any agricultural product, there is something ineffable about freshly picked hops. The kilning and pelletizing process preserves the building blocks of this wonderful plant, but many of the essential oils are lost. Since we want to brew beer year-round, this is a necessary sacrifice, apart from a window of time each autumn when the use of green cones straight off the bine is possible. Inspiration is a distilled expression of the Yakima Valley, the Mecca for hops in the country. This year, El Segundo Brewing worked directly with the Loza family for an all-Citra celebration. Cheers to another successful harvest!

Highland Park Timbo Pils | Hoppy Pilsner (5.8%): The Timbo that started it all. A beer so beloved that it now has an entire week devoted to it. The Pilsner whose recipe is brewed (with permission!) by Alvarado Street Brewery, Cellarmaker Brewing and Green Cheek Beer Co. upon occasion, constituting a veritable multiverse. There are many Timbos in this world, but this one is the ur-Timbo. Appealing to those who love hops and those who love lagers, Timbo will pull at your heartstrings like the disembodied blue hands on the label plucking notes from the guitar neck. Citra and Mosaic over a clean lager base, and such a reasonably low ABV (alcohol by-volume), too…who could ask for anything more?

Russian River Shadow of a Doubt | Imperial Porter (9.6%): Long before his postwar run of suspense masterpieces, Alfred Hitchcock was making smaller-scale (but no less unnerving) films. His 1943 feature, Shadow of a Doubt, was largely shot on-location in Santa Rosa, California, and is a fascinating glimpse into the appearance of that town for those of us watching eight decades later. Nowadays its most famous residents for craft-beer connoisseurs are the Cilurzo family of Russian River Brewing fame, who have created an eponymous beer in honor of the black-and-white flick. A commanding, roasty and slightly smoky imperial porter with a foreboding locomotive pulling into the town’s train station on its label, it is best consumed while watching the film on a damp and dreary evening.

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