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What’s Tapping (2/23/23)

Our weekly list of freshly tapping beers with quality Bottlecraft recommendations

Brandon HernándezFebruary 23, 2023
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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!

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  • Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Small Batch Tap #32 Red Ale, 5%
  • Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Jairo’s Jaizy Non-alcoholic hazy IPA, < 0.5%
  • Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Skip the Snooze Non-alcoholic Coffee Beer, < 0.5%
  • Bagby Beer Co. (Oceanside): Pollyollie Intense Pale Ale, 6.7%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Indra Kunindra Curry Export Stout, 7.1%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Stout Adjacent American Black Ale, 7%
  • Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Straight Outta Names West Coast IPA, 6.9%
  • Bear Roots Brewing (Vista): First Love Mango Sour Ale, 4%
  • Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Gothica Mexican-style Lager, 5.5%
  • Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Drinking About It West Coast IPA, 6.5%
  • Breakwater Brewing (Oceanside, Vista): Helles German-style Lager, 4.9%
  • Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Dr. Gonzo Triple IPA, 10.5%
  • Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Garage Days West Coast IPA, 7.2%
  • Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Checaveza Mexican-style Bohemian Pilsner, 4.8%
  • Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Birdie Juice Blueberry-Pineapple Hard Seltzer, 5%
  • Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Double Press Double IPA, 8.3%
  • Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Foggy Fairway Juicy Hazy IPA, 7%
  • Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Sunday Red Ale, 5.6%
  • Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar): Bing Logger Helles-style Lager, 5.1%
  • Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar): Platypug Belgian-style Amber Ale, 7.5%
  • East Village Brewing (East Village): Busy Day West Coast IPA, 7.3%
This week, downtown operation Resident Brewing tapped Evil Space Bots, a beer with a name sharing the acronym for its style, ESB (Extra Special Bitter)
  • East Village Brewing (East Village): Roots Jamaican-style Lager, 5%
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Lites & Music Hoppy Lager, 4.2%
  • Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma, La Jolla): Rival Altbier, 5.5%
  • Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): Worst Day Since Yesterday West Coast IPA, 6.5%
  • Gravity Heights (Sorrento Mesa): Smoke Wheat Every Day Smoked Hefeweizen, 5%
  • Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park, Carmel Valley): Midnight Niyok Stout, 8%
  • Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Galaxy Rye IPA, 6.4%
  • Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Red ‘N Active Hoppy Red Ale, 5%
  • The Hop Concept (San Marcos, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, East Village): Haze Pipe Hazy IPA, 6.5%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Double Chocolate Macadamia Stout, 12%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): The Doubler Bourbon Barrel-aged Chocolate Stout w/ Cacao & Coffee, 10.1%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): A Tribe Cold Quest Pale Ale, 7.1%
  • Kilowatt Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Ocean Beach, Oceanside): Zeelyn West Coast IPA, 7.5%
  • Kings & Convicts Brewing (Miramar): Fireside Smoked Raspberry Sour Ale, 4.5%
  • Laguna Beer Co. (Vista): Aloha Mr. Hand Double Dry-hopped Tropical IPA, 6.7%
  • Mission Brewing (East Village): Totally Kölsch, 4.6%
  • Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Pause for Effect Hazy Double IPA, 8%
  • Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Cali Creamin’ Peaches & Cream Vanilla Cream Ale w/ Peach, 5%
  • North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Brewer’s Delight: Citra Gang Double Dry-hopped Unfiltered West Coast IPA, 6.2%
  • North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Into the Endless Imperial Stout w/ Fudge, Cacao & Vanilla, 12% (collaboration w/ Brujos Brewing)
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, Kearny Mesa-based Societe Brewing has brought back its World Beer Cup-winning dry Irish-style stout, The Pugilist, on tap and in cans

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

El Segundo Simcoe | West Coast IPA (6.8%): Perched up in the pocket underneath LAX, between Highway 1 and the ocean, El Segundo Brewing has made consistently excellent West Coast IPAs for the better part of a decade. Very few ever denote the hop(s) used in their titles, however, preferring terminology taken from aviation or Americana. New release Simcoe is a stark exception, communicating precisely what to expect…a blast of Simcoe hops. This beer is piney, grapefruit-pithy, bitter and absolutely delicious.

Enegren Elixir Pils | German-style Pilsner (4.8%): How do they keep finding such obscure varietals? Elixir is a new-wave hop from France displaying woodsy, leathery earth tones atop Enegren’s cereal-esque pilsner-malt base. Alsace is well known for wine, especially Riesling and Sylvaner, but perhaps more attention should be paid to their lupulin prowess? This potion lives up to the moniker!

AleSmith Barrel-aged Vietnamese Coffee Speedway Stout | Imperial Coffee Stout (14.2%): Every once in a great while, one of the countless Speedway variants escapes from the tanks in Miramar and is promoted from draft-only to package status. One of the most beloved recipes incorporates light-roasted coffee of Vietnamese origin to meld with the burly, roasty base beer, and sometimes this iteration is aged in one or more used whisky casks. This special-release, iridescent gold-foiled (like a Wonka bar) 12-ounce bottle is one such example, having spent a spell in bourbon barrels.

Click here to explore the quality beers at Bottlecraft’s four San Diego locations.

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Brandon HernándezFebruary 23, 2023
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