What’s Tapping (11/5/26)

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): Speedway Stout: Cookies & Cream Edition Coffee Imperial Stout w/ Chocolate Cookies, Cacao & Marshmallow, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Speedway Stout: Neapolitan Edition Coffee Imperial Stout w/ Chocolate, Vanilla & Strawberry, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Speedway Stout: Turtle Sundae Edition Coffee Imperial Stout w/ Caramel, Pecan, Vanilla & Cacao, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Speedway Stout: Vietnamese Coffee Crunch Edition Coffee Imperial Stout w/ Toffee & Vanilla, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Dark & Mellow Vanilla Porter, 6%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Holiday Cheer Cranberry Sour Ale, 5.4%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Peppermint Black Marlin Porter, 6.3%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Tropical Diesel IPA, 7%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Victory at Sea Coffee-Vanilla Imperial Porter, 9%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Victory at Sea Mexican Hot Chocolate Coffee-Vanilla Imperial Porter, 9%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Victory at Sea Salted Caramel Coffee-Vanilla Imperial Porter, 9%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Victory at Sea Toasted Coconut Coffee-Vanilla Imperial Porter, 9%
Barley & Sword Brewing (Escondido, North Park): Der Schwarzwald German-style Dunkelweizen, 5.1%
Breakwater Brewing (Vista): Green Apple Hard Seltzer, 6.3%
Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Local Legends West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% (collaboration w/ Karl Strauss Brewing & Puesto Cerveceria) – PURCHASE ONLINE
Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Seeing Green Fresh Hop IPA, 6.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): Sticky Fingers Fresh Hop Double IPA, 8.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Day of the Dead Stout, 5.6%
Culver Beer Co. (Carlsbad): 10 Year Anniversary IPA
Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft Poets Society Czech-style Pilsner, 5.3%
Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Cartners West Coast IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ BattleMage Brewing, Booze Brothers Brewing & Weir Beer Co.)

Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Deck the Hops Double IPA w/ Spruce & Rosemary, 8%
Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Espresso Beer-tini Slushie, 5%
East Village Brewing (East Village): Grapefruit Pulpin’ West Coast IPA w/ Grapefruit, 6%
East Village Brewing (East Village): PPOG COG Hazy IPA w/ Pineapple, Passionfruit, Orange & Guava, 7%
Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): This Is Not My Beautiful Wife Hazy Pale Ale, 6.2%
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): DDH Nelson!? In This Economy?! Double Dry-hopped West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Happily Deceased West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Holiday in Berlin Berliner-style Weisse w/ Cranberry & Orange, 3.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Like a Million Suns Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Odd Number of Rows Mexican-style Lager, 4.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, 4S Ranch, Pacific Beach, Bay Park, South Park): Low Key Super Session IPA, 2.8%
Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Normal Heights): Don’t Hear No Bell Single-hop West Coast IPA w/ Mosaic, 7%
Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Normal Heights): Juice Box Hero Fruited Hard Seltzer, 6.8%
Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Baby Dolphin Belgian-style Blonde Ale, 5.4%
Julian Beer Co. (Julian): The Martian West Coast IPA, 7%
Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 4S Ranch, Carlsbad): Golden Stout w/ Coffee, Vanilla & Cacao, 7.5%
Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 4S Ranch, Carlsbad): Two Tortugas Belgian-style Quadrupel, 11%
Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Convoy Cruise New Zealand-style IPA, 7.3%
The Lost Abbey Brewing (Vista, San Marcos, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Miramar, East Village): Avant Gourde Pumpkin Ale w/ Spices, 7.3%
Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Pineberry IPA, 6.2%

Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach & Alpine): Raspberry Hop Cloud Hazy IPA, 7%
New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Humbly Legit IPA, 7.5%
Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Mane Lining Fresh-hop Pale Ale (collaboration with San Diego Beer News)
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Beyond Unreasonable Quadruple Dry-hopped Hazy Quadruple IPA, 12% (collaboration w/ Cellarmaker Brewing & Green Cheek Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Grand-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Grand Fir Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): A Rare Moment of Restraint West Coast Pilsner, 5.5% (collaboration w/ Cellarmaker Brewing & Green Cheek Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Unfazed Haze Hazy IPA, 6.5%
Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Keepin’ It Clean West Coast Pale Ale, 5.9%
Pizza Port Brewing Co. (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Santa’s Little Helper Imperial Stout, 10%
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Hazelsaurus Rex Imperial Stout w/ Hazelnut & Coffee, 12% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Small Batch Pils West Coast Pilsner, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Sour Blueberry Lemonade Hybrid Seltzer, 6.6%
San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): 33rd Anniversary Triple Dry-hopped IPA, 7%
San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Night Scenes #1 Rum Barrel-aged Stout Blend, 6.9%
San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Night Scenes #1 Rum Barrel-aged Stout Blend, 8.5%
San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Night Scenes Whiskey Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Coconut, Cacao & Vanilla, 11%
South O Brewing (Oceanside): Ecto Cooler Hard Seltzer w/ Tangerine, Lemon & Orange, 5%
Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Outsider Amber Ale, 5.9%
TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Citra Starfresh Fresh Hop Double IPA, 8%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Burgeon Fresh Hop Carlsbad Crush | Fresh Hop Pale Ale (5.8%): Hailing from ‒ you guessed it! ‒ Carlsbad, Burgeon Beer Co. has a wildly ambitious new release schedule. Yet their core beer I always return to is Carlsbad Crush, a beautiful expression of the Mosaic hops varietal. Imagine our delight when we discovered that cans of the fresh-hopped edition would be released into local distribution! All of the blueberry and overripe pineapple one might expect from the mighty Mosaic cones, plus an ineffable textural element. This is likely the last major fresh-hop release of the year, so enjoy it now before the rains return!

Lyons Peak Handgeplukte Kriek | Belgian-style Kriek (6.2%): Brewing a kriek ‒ spontaneously fermented ale aged in oak with whole cherries macerated in ‒ is one of the most difficult styles of beer to pull off. On top of that, the most prized subtype of cherries for traditional kriek is known as Schaerbeek, after the eponymous town northeast of Brussels. These are beloved for their inherent sourness yet are very finicky and difficult to grow even in Belgium, to say nothing of outside of the Low Countries! It is thus a tour de force that local brewer Chad Stevens successfully managed to raise an orchard in Jamul, and then made an incredible kriek utilizing the fruits of its harvest. The beer has been imbued with a Flemish title, meaning “hand-picked cherry”, and won a gold medal at the World Beer Cup for the debut batch earlier this year. Please join us at Bottlecraft Little Italy the evening of Tuesday, November 10 for a guided tasting with the man himself, featuring Batch One of this beer, Cantillon Kriek and vintage Drie Fonteinen Kriek. Tickets available here!

Radiant Best in Sho | Japanese Lager (4.9%): The humble rice lager has taken on unparalleled dimensions in recent years. Once the preserve of sushi restaurants or ramen joints, nowadays craft brewers far and wide will try their hand at these crisp, dry and cheerfully effervescent beers. The latest delicious iteration on our shelves comes to us from Radiant Beer Co. out of Anaheim, started up by alumni from The Bruery. Drop by Bottlecraft North Park for a taste off our draft-line before considering whether to take a four-pack home. Kanpai!

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