What’s Tapping (11/28)

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): Speedway Stout: German Chocolate Cake Edition Imperial Stout w/ Coconut, Pecans & Coffee, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Paloma Kettle Sour Ale w/ Grapefruit & Lime, 5.1%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): The Dark is Rising English-style Porter, 4.7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): The Dark is Rising English-style Porter on Nitro with Vanilla, 4.7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): The Dark is Rising English-style Porter with Vanilla, 4.7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): See Ya Later West Coast Double IPA, 8.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Moscow Mule Kettle Sour Ale w/ Ginger & Lime, 10%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Yule Tidings Spiced Winter Ale on Cask, 6%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Frosted Fakes: Peanut Butter Cup Imperial Stout w/ Peanut, Chocolate & Vanilla, 8%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Viva La Beaver Stout w/ Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Cinnamon, 7.5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Gothica Mexican-style Lager, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Open Mind Hazy IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Barrel-aged Dutchman’s Pipe Imperial Stout, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Dutchman’s Pipe Imperial Stout, 10.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Panic! at the Monastery Belgian-style Quadruple, 10.5%
• California Wild Ales (Point Loma, Ocean Beach): OB Wild West Coast IPA, 7.2% (collaboration w/ OB Brewery)
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (San Marcos, Oceanside): Chillzner Italian-style Pilsner, 5.4%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Brewer’s Cut Unfiltered Double IPA, 8.5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Two Hundred Grand Blueberry Sour Ale, 7.2%

• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar, North Park): 4X4 4th Anniversary West Coast IPA, 7.3% (collaboration w/ Coronado Brewing & Harland Brewing)
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma): Crimson Frost Sour Ale w/ Cherry, Cinnamon & Vanilla, 7.9%
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma): Helles-style Lager, 4.8%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Always Wishes Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Doom Sludge Black West Coast IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Nectaron!? In This Economy ?! Single-hop West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): A New Path to Pave West Coast IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Garibaldi Amaro-based Hard Seltzer w/ Orange, 6% (collaboration w/ Oddish Wine)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Lone Wolf Grodziskie Polish-style Smoked Beer, 3.5% (collaboration w/ Relentless Brewing)
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Midnight Train Imperial Stout, 10.5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Take Me to Church San Diego IPA, 7%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Pacific Swell West Coast Pilsner, 5.6%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Electrostatic Ale Imperial French-style Farmhouse Ale, 11.5%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Passion Fruit Wheat Beer, 6.8%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Hop Dogs West Coast IPA, 7.1%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Hops of Doom Hazy Double IPA, 7.9%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Midnight Oil Barrel-aged Pastry Stout w/ Coffee & Hazelnut, 14%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Parallel Paradise West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Hop Diggity Double IPA, 8.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Sin Tax Imperial Peanut Butter Stout, 8.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Humbly Legit IPA, 7.5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Greg German-style Pilsner, 4.8% – 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): Plus It Up Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): You’ll Dank Me Later Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Cellarmaker Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• The Original 40 Brewing (North Park): Ready to Pedal West Coast IPA, 7%
• Prey Brewing (Vista): Breaker West Coast IPA, 6%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Tropical Trinity Murky IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ GOAL. Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Uncovered Roots Imperial Purple Stout w/ Ube, Coconut, Cacao & Coffee, 9% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Chula Vista): Social Sparkler Strawberry Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 4%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Highwayman Hazy IPA, 6.8%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): Lachlan’s Sportsman’s Clara-style Lager, 4%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Munich-style Helles, 4.9%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): San Diego IPA, 7.5%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Falling Snow Double Oatmeal Stout, 8.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Torta Tommy Famous Dark Mexican-style Lager, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Prospect Pils German-style Pilsner, 4.9%
• Viewpoint Brewing (Del Mar): The Christmas Special Belgian-style Blonde Ale w/ Raspberry

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Pure Project / Burgeon Home for the Holihaze | Hazy Double IPA (8.8%): An annual collaborative release between host brewery Pure Project Brewing and guest-star Burgeon Beer Co., Home For The Holihaze is a tribute to those who brave the freeways and airports at this time of year so as to spend time with loved ones. The 2024 iteration boasts New Zealand varietals Nectaron and Nelson, alongside Oregon-grown Mosaic Cryo. This is a veritable fruit-basket of a beer, with a density of texture to keep the drinker warm and satiated.

Dupont Avec Les Bon Vœux | Holiday Saison (9.5%): Wallonia’s Brasserie Dupont makes the gold standard for classic farmhouse ales with their namesake flagship saison. Their proprietary peppery yeast-strain and copper fermentation vessels create something ineffable, a rustic beer for the onset of modernity. Once a year, however, they release their “With Best Wishes” (word-for-word, “with the good wishes”, but this is an idiomatic translation), a beer ideal for gift-giving. Sort of a combination of a saison and a tripel, this holiday beer maintains the trappings of their base recipe but adds candi sugar to crank the ABV (alcohol-by-volume) up another couple of notches. As with Trappist ales, this non-malt-derived sugar source is like steroids for their voracious yeasts, who respond by producing much higher levels of alcohol and carbonation. Enjoy with good friends!

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, and is a fascinating glimpse into the appearance of that town for those of us watching eight decades later. Nowadays the most famous local residents for craft-beer connoisseurs are the Cilurzo family of Russian River Brewing, who have created an eponymous beer in honor of the black-and-white flick. A commanding, roasty and slightly smoky imperial porter, it features a foreboding locomotive pulling into the town’s train station on its label and is best consumed while watching the film on a holiday weekend.

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