What’s Tapping (2/2/23)

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. 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): Some Kinda Love Double Dry-hopped Imperial Red Ale, 9%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Stereophile Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.2%
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Marley’s Ghost Dark Strong Ale, 8.5%
• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Winter Hawk Spiced Doppelbock, 7.8%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Emerald Cliffs Non-alcoholic Irish-style Dry Stout, < 0.5%
• Aztec Brewery (Vista): Cucumber Basil Hard Seltzer, 5.5%
• Aztec Brewery (Vista): Hard Ginger Ale, 5.5%
• Aztec Brewery (Vista): Strawberry Watermelon Hard Seltzer, 5.5%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Ginger Big Eye IPA, 7.1%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Nitro Sextant Oatmeal Stout, 5.7%
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Electric Blues West Coast IPA, 7.5%
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Peach Hard Kombucha, 5.5%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Rainbow Pulp Hazy IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Great Notion)
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Western Grit IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ West Bound & Down Brewing)
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftly Hallows Foreign Extra Stout, 7.1%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DoubleDeft Secret DoppelSticke Altbier, 8.9%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): POG Hard Seltzer w/ Passionfruit, Orange & Guava, 5%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Bit Odd Innit Robust English-style Porter, 6.3%

• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma, La Jolla): Vienna Lager Pre-Prohibition-style Lager, 4.6%
• Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): Oh Yeah American Light Lager, 4%
• Gravity Heights (Sorrento Mesa): Rice Cold Rice Lager, 4.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park, Carmel Valley): Fortune Teller West Coast Triple IPA, 10%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park, Carmel Valley): Merlion Double Dry-hopped West Coast Pale Ale, 5.4% (collaboration w/ Ogopogo Brewing)
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Electric Skies Tropical IPA, 7%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Helix Pale Ale, 4.8%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Iris and the Giant Peach Kettle Sour Ale, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rindstone Cowboy Grapefruit IPA, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Dragon Fruit Hazy Triple IPA, 11%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Poway Days Pale Ale, 6%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Razz Sour Ale, 7%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Roll Call Red Ale, 6.8%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 3S Ranch, Carlsbad): 34th Anniversary Chardonnay Barrel Aged Wheatwine w/ Sauvignon Blanc Grapes, 8.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 3S Ranch, Carlsbad): Marmalade Sass Citrus IPA, 
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Chief Kief Double IPA, 8.2%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Seaport Village, Alpine): The Hangry Dragon Triple IPA, 12.6%

• Mujeres Brew House (Barrio Logan): Nure-ona Japanese-style Rice Lager, 4.5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): The Final Death Double Dry-hopped Unfiltered West Coast IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Wondrous Brewing)
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Friends & Neighbors Vienna-style Lager, 5.3%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Saturday in the Park Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% (collaboration w/ Mikerphone Brewing)
• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Denim Tuxedo Canadian-style Pilsner, 5%
• The Original 40 Brewing (North Park): Tell Me Mo American Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): I Choose Yuzu Japanese-style Rice Lager w/ Yuzu & Shiso, 5%
• Resident Brewing (Dowtown): Midnight Drive Hard Apple Cider w/ Blackberry, Basil & Vanilla, 6.5% (collaboration w/ Newtopia Cyder)
• Rincon Reservation Road Brewery (Valley Center): Misunderstood Berliner-style Weisse, 4.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): My Reverie Hazy Double IPA, 8.6%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Bellona Irish-style Red Ale, 5.1%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Juniper Flats Sahti, 6.3% (collaboration w/ Julian Beer Co.)
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Walker New England-style Hazy IPA, 6.2%
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Point Loma, Downtown, Harbor Island, Oceanside): 9 Minutes to Midnight Double Dry-hopped Imperial Black IPA, 9%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park): Here & There Pale Ale, 4.8% (collaboration w/ The Garden Brewery)
• Thr3e Punk Ales Brewing (Chula Vista): Cheves de Enero Rye Beer, 3.8%
• Thr3e Punk Ales Brewing (Chula Vista): Flama Blanca Mexican-style Lager, 4.5%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Cellarmaker Mount Nelson | Hazy Pale Ale (5.7%): For all the climbers out ther! Cellarmaker Brewing’s longstanding relationship with Freestyle Farms on the south island of New Zealand once again allows for a beautiful crop of Nelson hops. All the gooseberry, Sauvignon Blanc and diesel that a Nelson-lover desires crowning a fluffy pale ale.

pFriem Czech Lager | Czech-style Pale Lager (5.1%): This is an exceptional beer even by the sky-high standards that pFriem sets. Pillowy soft pilsner malt from the renowned Sladovny malthouse in Moravia meets Bohemian Saaz (i.e., Žatec) hops for a bready and refreshing lager. I strongly recommend that everybody drink this beer, as it will doubtlessly enrich your life and brighten your day.

Alvarado Street Mallow Mania | Imperial Kettle Sour Ale (8%): The tangerine creamsicle of beers, Mallow Mania suffuses a seemingly contradictory combination of ingredients into a pastel puce pint can. Milk sugar, marshmallow, tangerine and vanilla melt together for citric, lactic and altogether desserty tones. Drink after dinner in place of an ice-cream float.

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