What’s Tapping (10/5)

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): Dead Man’s Double Dry-hopped Double West Coast IPA w/ Phantasm, 8%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Pink Hoptimism West Coast IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Beer For Boobs)
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Dark & Gordy Non-alcoholic Pumpkin Beer w/ Spices, < 0.5%
• Beerdad’s Brew Works (San Marcos): Father Figure West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Outside Your Mind Double Hazy IPA, 
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Hell Hazer Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): In My Darkest Sour Blueberry & Pomegranate Kettle Sour Ale, 4.6% – BUY ONLINE
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Francis Blume West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Breakwater Brewing (Oceanside, Vista): The Double Goat Red Wine Barrel-aged Doppelbock, 8.2%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Piña-Rita Fruited Kettle Sour Ale, 6.6%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Sapling Hoppy Rye Amber Ale, 5.6%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Hodgetoberfest Festbier, 5.9%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Mountain Hawk Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Kōkua Session IPA (collaboration w/ Maui Brewing)
• Creative Creature Brewing (San Marcos, El Cajon): Children of the Maize Maze Vanilla Milkshake Ale, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Bruxelles Trip Belgian-style Tripel, 9.4%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftly Hallows Foreign-style Extra Stout, 6.8%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Grateful Deft Kellerbier, 5.4%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Rugger Water British-style Ordinary Bitter, 3.6%

• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Lucky Stout Nitro Irish-style Stout, 4.8%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): POG Beer Slushie, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast Stout w/ Maple, 12.8% – BUY ONLINE
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, La Jolla, Point Loma): Comfy Chair Oatmeal Stout, 5%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Check Yourself Pink American Lager, 4%
• Helia Brewing (Vista): Emerald Vortex West Coast Lager, 5.5%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Helix Pale Ale, 4.8%
• Heritage Brewery & Barbecue (Oceanside): Mr. Incredible West Coast IPA, 6%
• Heritage Brewery & Barbecue (Oceanside): Yigawolf Helles-style Lager, 4.9%
• Hodad’s Brewing (Serra Mesa): Kōkua Session IPA, 4.2% (collaboration w/ Maui Brewing)
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): My Dear Watson English-style Brown Ale, 5.2%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Remission Possible II Breast Cancer Charity Kettle Sour Ale, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Foam Ranger Double IPA, 8.2%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Honey Pale Ale, 4.5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Pumpkin Spice Heff Hefeweizen, 5%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Chocolate Macadamia Stout, 6.2%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Reality Welder Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Fresh As It Gets Fresh-hop IPA, 6.7% – FIND ONLINE
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Four Seasons Series Autumn ’23 Bourbon Barrel-aged Cocktail-inspired Imperial Stout, 11.3% – FIND ONLINE

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Bird Park Bohemian-style Pilsner, 4.7% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Double Constrictor Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Mr. Hoppy Dank Supreme IPA, 7.1% – BUY ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Strata Fresh Fresh-hop IPA, 6.8%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): ‘Wit’ney Belgian-style Witbier, 5%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Euphorik with Strawberry Oak Barrel-aged Feral Ale, 5.2%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Mystery Veils the Desert Murky IPA, 6.6% (collaboration with Wren House Brewing) – BUY ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): River Queen Murky Triple IPA, 10.2% – BUY ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Black & Blueberry Robust Porter w/ Blueberry & Vanilla, 5.7%
• Rip Current Brewing (San Marcos, North Park): Lupulin Lust Double IPA, 9%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Fun Fact Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Stand Up and Cherry Sour Ale, 5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Take a Beat Czech-style Pale Lager, 4.2%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): After Work Amber Ale, 5.8%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Pacific Seltzer Mai Tai Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Thorn Brewing (Barrio Logan, North Park, Mission Hills): Stickey Henderson West Coast IPA, 7%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): Märzen
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): Vice Passion Cactus Dragon Fruit Berliner-style Weisse, 5.2%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Fremont Cowiche Canyon | Wet-hop Pale Ale (6%): Depending on whom one asks, Cowiche Canyon may be the most anticipated release from Fremont Brewing’s incredible lineup of wet-hopped beers. A rare example of terroir in beer this West Coast IPA is brewed with fresh, unkilned hop cones derived from a single eponymous canyon in the Yakima Valley. Adding to the mystique is the sterling quality of the Simcoe and Citra hops used in the beer, all of which are grown organically. To my knowledge, this is the only wet-hopped beer packaged with all organic hops. Enjoy now, as these beers are inordinately fragile and fleeting.

Beachwood Pairs Well with Pizza | Italian-style Pilsner (5.3%): Long a powerhouse in downtown Long Beach, Beachwood Brewing has expanded dramatically of late. In addition to other projects that have come to fruition, the firm now boasts a pizza place in nearby Huntington Beach; the pizza dough is derived from a sourdough yeast culture from Beachwood’s sour- and wild-ale arm, the Blendery. I paid a visit myself this summer after a morning at Sunset Beach (not forgetting to stop at the new Green Cheek outpost there for cans to-go) and was delighted by both the pies and the beer. Who could ask for anything more? In celebration of the move into pizza-making, Beachwood developed a herbal dry-hopped Pilsner in the Italian style, with an all-too-fitting moniker. Avanti Beachwood!

Pizza Port Bacon & Eggs | Imperial Coffee Porter (8%): With the possible exception of AleSmith Brewing’s iconic Speedway Stout, no San Diego coffee beer inspires such devotion as Bacon & Eggs by Pizza Port. A sumptuous blend of roasted grains and smooth, earthy coffee, this beer only comes around in the autumn and winter. We would carry it on a year-round basis if it were possible, but as that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, stock up now!

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