What’s Tapping (3/21)

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!

• Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): POG Sour Berliner-style Weisse w/ Passionfruit, Orange & Guava, 4.3%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Personal Record Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Beautiful Oblivion Specialty IPA, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Transcendence West Coast IPA, 7.5% (collaboration w/ Pure Project Brewing)
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Last Laugh Extra Pale Ale, 5.4%
• Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Los Hermanos Mexican-style Lager, 4.2%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): Wakey Wakey Coffee Milk Stout, 7.3%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DeftHopt Rustic American-ish Hazy-ish IPA, 5.8%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DoubleDeft Secret DoppelSticke Altbier, 9.2%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Miramar Pines Pale Ale, 5.9%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Keep on Duckin’ Session IPA, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Sour on Love Tart Cherry Edition Berliner-style Weisse, 5.6%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Summit Unfiltered West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Guadalupe Brewery (Vista): Xplorador Toffee Vanilla Porter, 
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Back to the Phuture Hazy Double IPA, 8% (collaboration w/ North Park Beer Co. & Pure Project Brewing)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Rising Petals Sour IPA w/ Blueberry & Yuzu, 7%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Stoner Moment IPA, 7%
• Hodad’s Brewing (Serra Mesa): Shubie Hazy IPA, 6.5%

• Home Brew Mart (Morena): Waving My Talus in the Wind West Coast Double IPA, 8%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Chase the Rainbow Lucky Charms-inspired Kettle Sour Ale, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Sno Ball Imperial Dessert Stout, 11.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): The Godfather Italian-style Pilsner (collaboration w/ Societe Brewing)
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): South Island New Zealand-style Pilsner, 5.2%
• Mission Brewing (East Village, Kensington): Clear Skies Amber Lager, 4.5%
• Mission Brewing (East Village, Kensington): Grapefruit Radler, 4.5%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Metamorphosis Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Back to the Phuture III Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% (collaboration w/ Harland Brewing & Pure Project Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hakosuka Japanese-style Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Solana Beach 37th Anniversary West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Irish Hello Irish-style Red Ale, 4.9%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Sun Sets New Zealand-style Lager, 5%
• Pizza Port Solana Beach (Solana Beach): Broken Chairs Porter, 5%

• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Back to the Phuture I Murky IPA, 6.5% (collaboration w/ Harland Brewing & North Park Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cryo Me a River West Coast Pale Ale, 5.5% (collaboration w/ Seek Beer Co.)
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Forest of Light West Coast Pilsner, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Public Eye American Pub Ale, 5.4%
• Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Blueberry π Cream Ale w/ Blueberry, 5%
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): No-No Joe Double IPA, 8.2%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): 7th Anniversary Cold IPA, 7%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): The Jig is Up! Milk Stout, 6.8%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Shaky Takeoff Hazy IPA, 7.5%
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Point Loma, Oceanside, Harbor Island, Downtown): Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA, 8.7%
• Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Point Loma): SDBNA IPA, 6.5% (collaboration w/ San Diego Beer News, Abnormal Beer Co., Ballast Point Brewing, Barley & Sword Brewing, Division 23 Brewing, Fall Brewing, Guadalupe Brewery, Hodad’s Brewing, Hopnonymous Brewing, Jacked Up Brewery, Latchkey Brewing, Modern Times Beer, The Roadies Brewing, Societe Brewing, WestBrew & White Labs Brewing)
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Loma Alta Mexican-style Lager, 4.7%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Money Trees Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Ube Latte Pastry Stout w/ Coconut, Vanilla, Espresso & Ube, 12%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): Golden Honey Ale, 6.5%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Beachwood Animatronic Friends | West Coast IPA (7.1%): It has been a little while since the last West Coast IPA from Beachwood landed! With a band of anthropomorphic non-stop mop-topped hops crop playing their rock instruments at the shop, the label is a playful nostalgic throwback. The grain-bill has a familar bed of 2-Row, but intriguingly includes Canadian-grown pilsner malt. The hops are (as per usual) the stars of the show, with a woodsy grapefruit foundation of old-school PNW varietals (Centennial & Columbus), atop which is layered Ekuanot Cryo, Mosaic and the increasingly prevalent HBC-586. Drink it now before the house lights come on!

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.

Brasserie d’Orval Orval | Brett Pale Ale (6.9%): Orval Day 2024 approaches! Falling this Saturday the 23rd, this latest of beer holidays celebrates the most singular of Trappist beers. Is there any beer like Orval? Fermented with Saccharomyces (i.e. brewer’s yeast) but bottle-conditioned with Brettanomyces (a famed wild strain imparting rustic barnyard aromas), the final beer is hugely carbonated and bracingly dry. The associated iconic bowl-shaped chalice is a treasured piece of glassware in our collection and will be gladly broken out for the occasion. À votre santé!

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