What’s Tapping (11/20/25)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Cranberry Ale w/ Vanilla & Cinnamon, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Decade of Dank West Coast Pilsner, 5.2%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Hometown Harvest Non-alcoholic Amber IPA, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Catamaran Double IPA, 8.5%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): First Love Fruited Ale, 4.7%
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): 12 Year Anniversary West Coast IPA, 7%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Barrel-aged Dutchman’s Pipe Imperial Stout, 12.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Double Dry-hopped Treevana West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Dutchman’s Pipe Imperial Stout, 10.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Old Moon Madness Dry Irish-style Stout on Nitro, 4%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, 5.6%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Cranberry Orange Sour Ale, 7.2%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Black Forest Summer Schwarzbier, 5.3%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deftoberfest Pils German-style Pilsner, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Prize Inside IPA, 6.6%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Abso-hefin’-lutely!, German-style Hefeweizen, 5.2%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar, Kearny Mesa, North Park): Dawn in Ube Hazy IPA w/ Ube, 6.8%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Autumn Adventures Golden Milk Stout w/ Coffee & Pumpkin Spices on Nitro, 7.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Beautiful Catastrophe West Coast IPA, 7.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Float Like Leaves Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Happily Deceased West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Nelson!?! In This Economy?!? West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Playing It Loud Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Puncheon Project: Nelson Barrel-fermented Mixed Culture Sour Beer, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Shhh…This is Ryan’s Award Wining Brown Ale English-style Brown Ale, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): The Kid Hazy IPA, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park): Porter á la Mocha Porter w/ Coffee, Cocoa & Lactose, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rad Santa Winter Warmer Ale
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): New Venture Spiced Apple Ale, 7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Señorita Mexican-style Lager w/ Hibiscus & Lemon, 5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Controlled Chaos – Orange & Cranberry American Sour Ale, 5%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Brig Blonde Ale, 5.2%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Kamakura Rice Lager, 4.5%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Keary Mesa): Krush Kru IPA, 7.2%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Keary Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Midnight in Bangkok Bourbon Barrel-aged Thai Tea Imperial Stout w/ Coconut & Vanilla, 12.2%
• Kilowatt Brewing (Keary Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Pucker Up, Buttercup Barrel-aged Sour Ale w/ Cherry, Pomegranate & Lime, 5.5%

• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Ocean Beach, Downtown, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Guava Have It Hazy IPA w/ Guava, 5.7%
• Modern Times Beer (Encinitas): Pickle Pils German-style Pilsner w/ Pickle Brine, Dill & Salt, 4.8%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): An Exercise in Patience New Zealand-style Pilsner, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Return of the Galaxy Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Triple X-Raying Nelson Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• The Original 40 Brewing (North Park): Super Fruited Pineapple Pilsner, 5.3%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Secret Swami’s West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Fellowship New Zealand-style Session Hazy IPA, 5%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Maddie Had a Little Duck Sour Ale Blend w/ Nectarine & Peach, 5.4% (collaboration w/ The Lost Abbey Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Soul Alchemy Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Coconut, 12.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• San Diego Brewing (Mission Valley): San Diego Gold Kölsch, 5.4% 
• San Diego Brewing (Mission Valley): SD Night Scenes Barrel-aged Imperial Stout & Porter Blend w/ Cacao, Coconut, Salt & Vanilla, 9.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): New Day Rising West Coast Belgian-style IPA, 5.8% (collaboration w/ BLAH Brewing)
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Spice of Life Spiced Hard Seltzer, 5.5%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Jandals New Zealand-style IPA, 6.5%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Marine Layer Hazy Pale Ale, 5.5%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

A Thanksgiving edition of the picks this week!

Alvarado Street Give Thanks | Hazy Double IPA (8%): The official Thanksgiving beer of Alvarado Street Brewery is a hazy double IPA, densely packed with high-protein grains, aromatic hops and three different ester-heavy yeast strains. With the Norman Rockwell painting “Freedom From Want” adorning the can – a gauzy depiction of a family dinner from the early 1940s – Alvarado harkens back to a vanished era. We give thanks to them for sending along this delicious beer in time for the holiday weekend!

Seek Coping Skills | West Coast Pilsner (5.6%): While the holidays are a time of celebration, they also come with their concomitant stresses and strains. It can take some coping skills to surmount them! Happily, our friends at Seek Beer Co. have plenty of Coping Skills for us all in the form of their new hoppy Pilsner. I enjoyed a pint of this two weekends ago while sitting outdoors at the brewery – before the rains came – and resolved to order it for our shelves. Hopped with Nelson and Simcoe, but still very recognizably a Pilsner, this is a stellar new recipe from Seek.

Fonta Flora Supper Table | Autumn Ale (5.2%): The esoteric Fonta Flora Brewery – one of the very few from North Carolina who distribute to California – crafts agriculturally-focused beers across a wide range of styles. Supper Table is an autumnal seasonal meant to evoke the aromas and flavors of sweet potato pie. Replete with that selfsame tuber as well as allspice, cardamom, cinnamon, clove, ginger and vanilla, this beer has earned a place in your dessert course!

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