What’s Tapping (10/23)

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!

• 3 Punk Ales (Chula Vista): Third Ave IPA, 7.3%
• 3 Punk Ales (Chula Vista): Too Hectic Hazy IPA, 6.6%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Pilot Program Non-alcoholic Frozen Hop IPA, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Pilot Program Non-alcoholic Wet Hop IPA, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Three Seas IPA, 7.3%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Staffordshire’s Best English-style Bitter on Cask, 4.3%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Witching Hour Coffee Stout, 5.5%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Dia de los Deftones Mexican-style Lager w/ Lime, 5%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Tiramisu Chocolate Milk Stout, 7.5%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Fresh Hop Carlsbad Crush Mosaic Pale Ale, 5.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Watering Hole Double Dry-hopped IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Strung Out on Mosaic Wet Hop IPA, 7%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Thin Fizzy Raspberry Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft de Garde Biere de Garde, 6.4%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Sunset in Bruges Flanders-style Sour Red Ale, 5.4%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Tourmaline Tan English-style Brown Ale, 5.8%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Sasquack Belgian-style Tripel, 9%

• Eppig Brewing (Point Loma): Wake Up & Slay IPA, 7.9%
• Gravity Heights (Sorrento Valley, Mission Valley): Southern Glow West Coast IPA
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Clear Out the Cobwebs West Coast IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Untz Untz Dark Kölsch, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Actual Blood Smoothie Sour Ale w/ Boysenberry, Raspberry, Pomegranate & Strawberry Ice Cream, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Juice Box Hero Fruited Hard Seltzer, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Pat’s Blue Ribbon American Lager, 4.8%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Bailey’s Ghost Pumpkin-spice Porter, 8%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): O’Hail Yeah Dry Irish-style Stout, 4.7%
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Murder of rows Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Wai Ola Sparkling Non-alcoholic Hop Water, 0%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Assaulted by Feather Pillows Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): A Little Alora Session IPA, 5%
• Mission Brewing (Miramar, La Jolla, Carmel Valley, Kensington, East Village): Capital of Craft West Coast IPA, 7.2% (collaboration w/ Coronado Brewing, Harland Brewing, Pure Project Brewing, South O Brewing, Sunny Grove Brewing & Tarantula Hill Brewing)
• Mission Brewing (Miramar, La Jolla, Carmel Valley, Kensington, East Village): Pepp-Rally Mexican Lager w/ Salt & Lime, 5%

• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Mountain Crystal Wet Hop IPA, 
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Above & Beyond West Coast Pilsner, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): The Coast with the Most Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): The Sun Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Quadruple IPA, 12% (collaboration w/ Omnipollo) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Jetty West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Unexplainably Juicy Extra Pale Ale, 5.8% (collaboration w/ Kilowatt Brewing)
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Arctic Hammer Cold IPA, 6.7%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Spotties West Coast IPA, 7.4%
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Blueberry π Blueberry Cream Ale, 5%
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Quantum Creamin’ Cream Ale, 5%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Pocket Pale Ale, 5.3%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Anniversary Double Dry-hopped Double IPA, 8.6%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Grape Gatsby Grape Hard Soda
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Spice of Life Spiced Apple Hard Seltzer
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): The Butcher Imperial Stout, 6.7%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): The Vagabond Mixed Berry & Lime Sour Ale, 4.6%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Beachwood Pizza Corgi | West Coast IPA (7.1%): What is a pizza corgi, you ask? Your columnist is equally stumped. Real chin-scratcher, that one. The title of this beer reads like a Mad Libs “noun” “noun” prompt. Beachwood Brewing makes outstanding pizza at their Huntington Beach location, and corgis have all but universal appeal ‒ perhaps it is no more complicated than that? Anyway, this West Coast IPA is entirely hopped with New Zealand varietals ‒ our old friend Nelson and also Nectaron, a sister of the better-known Waimea. A pronounced grassiness comes through alongside sticky pineapple tones. Cheers to pizza…and corgis!

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 hops over a clean lager base, and such a reasonably low ABV (alcohol-by-volume) too ‒ who could ask for anything more?

Cellador Akimbo | Stone Fruit Sour (6.3%): Cellador Ales continues to impress with their explorations of mixed-fermentation saisons and table beers aged up in wine barrels with various fruit treatments. With fresh peaches from the unparalleled Masumoto Family Farm outside of Fresno, Akimbo imparts lush fruit aromas alongside judicious tartness. The aromatic dose of Nelson Sauvin at the finish adds another veil of tropical abundance to a delightfully sour beer.

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