What’s Tapping (12/6)

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!

• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Kokua Double Dry-hopped West Coast Session Lager, 4.4% (collaboration w/ Maui Brewing)
• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Pine Bomb American IPA, 7.2%
• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Rule Breaker Double Dry-hopped West Coast Pilsner, 5.8%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Barrel-aged Heavy Forge: Banana Pancake Edition aged in Maple Syrup Barrels w/ Vanilla & Banana, 12.8%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Barrel-aged Speedway Stout: Double Fudge Brownie Edition aged in Bourbon Barrels w/ Coffee, Cacao, Cocoa & Vanilla, 13%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Zero Fox Cream Ale, 4.7%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Round of Cheers Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Yule Tidings Spiced Winter Cask Ale, 5.4% (collaboration w/ Home Brew Mart)
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Gambino Imperial Coffee Stout, 8.5%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Snoop Noggy Nog Barleywine, 9%
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Ol’ Grandaddy’s Double IPA, 8.2%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Boundless IPA, 6.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Chili Bin New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 5.1% – BUY ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Seventh Mirage Hazy IPA, 6.8% – BUY ONLINE
• California Wild Ales (Point Loma, Ocean Beach): Rainbow Weather Hazy Double IPA, 8.3%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Down by the Sea Double Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8.3%
• Creative Creature Brewing (San Marcos, El Cajon): TP for my Acai Bowl Smoothie Ale w/ Acai, Coconut, Granola, Honey & Vanilla, 5%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): La Cereza Mexican-style Lager, 4.7%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): West Coast Session IPA. 4.5%

• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Invasion from Strata Single-hopped IPA: Special Thiolized Yeast Batch, 7%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Purple Reign Imperial Tart Ale w/ Plum, Apricot & Blackberry, 8.6% – BUY ONLINE
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Tropical IPA
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Biggie Smalls Petite Pastry Stout, 6.5% (collaboration w/ Seek Beer Co.)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Blackberry Cobbler Sour Ale, 6%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Corner Pocket Double IPA, 8.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Lunar Maps IPA, 7%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Momiji Maple Stout, 8%
• Heritage Barbecue & Brewery (Oceanside): House Hazy IPA, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Fade to Black Imperial Stout w/ Chocolate & Vanilla, 13%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Salty Bandits Barrel-aged Imperial Stout w/ Cacao & Salt, 12%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Valley, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad, San Marcos): Pilsner of Azkaban West Coast Pils, 5%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Muntz New Zealand Rye IPA, 7.2%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Wild Child West Coast Double IPA, 8.4%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): 4 Wise Dudes Winter IPA, 7%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): Bourbon Barrel-aged Baba Yaga Imperial Stout, 14%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): Rye Barrel-aged Baba Yaga Imperial Stout, 14%

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): NP Dunkel Munich-style Dunkel, 4.8% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Triple Dry-hopped Infinite Content Hazy IPA, 7.2% – BUY ONLINE
• Pizza Port Brewing (Bressi Ranch, Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Becah): Secret Swami’s Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Pizza Port (Carlsbad): Funkadelic West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Crooked Tree Red IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ California Wild Ales, Chula Vista Brewery, Hodad’s Brewing, Ketch Brewing, Kilowatt Brewing, My Yard Live Beer Co., OB Brewery & Thorn Street Brewery)
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Bitter Winter Seasonal IPA, 6.8%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): 30 Hop West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar): Stawnilla Stout w/ Strawberry & Vanilla, 8%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Maple Mornings Maple Stout, 9%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Enchiridion Reserve Blended Imperial Stout, 13.4% – BUY ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Citra and the Gang Unfiltered IPA, 6.4%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): Barrel-aged Niterideur Imperial Stout, 9.4%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): Barrel-aged Windy Roads American Barleywine, 12.8%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Create Your Own Ambience Fruited Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Cinnamon & Chile, 5.5%
• Shoots Beer Co. (Oceanside, Carlsbad): POG Hazy IPA 
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Cloud Delay Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Point Loma, Downtown, Oceanside): One Batch Dispatch: Gargoyle’s Slumber Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout, 11%
• Thorn Brewing (Barrio Logan, North Park, Mission Hills): Pine Hollows West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.)

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Fieldwork Enigma Juice | Hazy IPA (6.6%): Enigma is an aptly named hop varietal! This mysterious type of hop emanated from Australia less than a decade ago, and made a splash with the late Oskar Blues IPA (nickname: Blue Dream, owing in part to the electric hue of the can) before turning up in Bottlecraft’s very own 2017 collaboration with Burgeon Beer Co. entitled “Choreograft”. Now it takes center stage in a hazy IPA from Fieldwork Brewing with all of the inscrutable raspberry and melon tones one might expect.

Liquid Gravity Hi-Di-Ho Neighbor! | Hoppy Pilsner (5.9%): The northernmost outpost of Bottlecraft lies in the central Californian city of San Luis Obispo, helmed by our man Sean Casey, who beforehand had been a longtime beloved bartender at Bottlecraft Long Beach. His visage graces the can-art of this hoppy pilsner, shared with Brendan of Liquid Gravity Brewing, an award-winning brewery from the selfsame city. Hilariously, Sean and Brendan are residential neighbors in real life as well. This collaborative lager with Citra, Nelson and Simcoe celebrates friends who are neighbors as well as neighbors who are friends.

Pizza Port Santa’s Little Helper | Imperial Stout (10%): Twenty years after the beer under this name was brewed at Pizza Port Solana Beach, it has undergone a full recursion to origin. Long under the aegis of Port Brewing, with variations (coffee, hazelnut) presenting themselves in the interim, Santa’s Little Helper materialized this year in the familiar 16-ounce can six-pack format that Pizza Port has popularized. An unabashed imperial stout with no additives, this little helper will assist you as well as Santa in having a delightful holiday season.

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