What’s Tapping (3/7)

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): Abnormally German Bavarian-style Pilsner, 5.3%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Fearless West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Luna Porter, 5.3%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Artifexican Mexican-style Lager, 4.7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Bye Felicia Double IPA, 8%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Orange You Different Hazy IPA, 7%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Stripper Dust Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Unicorn Juice Wheat Beer w/ Passionfruit, 5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Trailblazer Hoppy Non-alcoholic Helles-style Lager, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) British-style Golden Ale on Cask, 5.2%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Sawmill Steam California Common, 5.1% (collaboration w/ Bay City Brewing)
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Wheeler’s Patent Irish-style Stout, 3.8%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Misty Step Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista): Gingers Island American Pale Ale w/ Ginger & Vanilla, 5.9%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Beautiful Oblivion Specialty IPA, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Blue Fires Brewing (San Marcos): Electric Blues West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Fizzy Navel Fruited Kettle Sour Ale, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Sapling Hoppy Rye Amber Ale, 5.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Tinnies Extra Pale Ale, 5.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Twin Fin West Coast Pilsner, 5.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Thin Fizzy Blackberry Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 4.5%
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Blood Orange Session Hazy IPA, 5.5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft Season: Spring Belgian-style Saison, 6.9%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Mojito Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar): Coconut IPA, 6.5%
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma): Wake Up & Slay West Coast IPA, 7.5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Buko Pandan Haze Hazy IPA w/ Pandan Leaf & Coconut, 6.7%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Infrared AMs Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Groundswell Brewing (Grantville, Chula Vista): Velvet Eclipse Sweet Stout w/ Vanilla, 6.3%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Big Chick Energy II Oatmeal Stout, 5.5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Ice Cold Cruiser American Light Lager, 4%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Cosmic Highways IPA, 7%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Puff Puff Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Dr. Jinx Imperial Stout w/ Chocolate & Vanilla, 11.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): Follow the Sun Lager, 4.2%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Parallel Paradise Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Rad Habits Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.)
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Radiant Glow Hazy Ale, 4.6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Belgian Blonde Ale, 6.8%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Blueberry Blonde Ale, 6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Brewers Special Brown Ale, 6.6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Vienna Lager, 5.5%

• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Death Tongue Scorpion Pepper IPA, 6.2%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Lantern Man Extra Special Bitter, 6.2%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Pair O’ Docs Double IPA w/ Grapefruit & Orange, 9.2%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Art is Hard Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Ice-Fu! Double Dry-hopped Cold IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Mess with the West, Die Like the Rest Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Kimbo Slice Hoppy Red IPA, 7.9%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Moonlit Hike Robust Porter, 7.6%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Retrograde Motion Murky Double IAP, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Wild Canyon West Coast IPA, 6.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Dictator Bavarian-style Doppelbock, 7.2%
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): Street Drink San Diego Pale Ale, 6%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): Best Friends Forever West Coast IPA, 7.3% (collaboration w/ Fremont Brewing)
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): The Heiress Czech-style Pilsner, 5.3%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Above the Clouds Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Modern Love West Coast IPA, 7%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): Golden Honey Ale, 6.5%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Everywhere From the Unseen | Hazy IPA (6.8%): Someone really ought to get around to giving HBC 586 a trademarked name soon! This proprietary hop has been popping up all over the place, as brewers and drinkers alike are entranced by its ostinato of fruit aromas. Everywhere utilizes it to great effect in this hazy IPA, building a quartet with Citra, Nectaron and Nelson, with Phantasm powder as the basso profundo. Enjoy while listening to your favorite chamber music!

Gold Dot Export Lager | Dortmunder Export (5.6%): Hot on the heels of the initial drop of Gold Dot, a second pulse has come through! The latest SKU is the sort of pale lager for which parent company Heater Allen is known. With a softer, rounder malt basis and increased ABV as compared to most pilsners, the Dortmunder Export Lager is a sadly overlooked style emanating from the eponymous industrial city of Dortmund in western Germany.

Bottle Logic / GOAL. Infinite Variables | Barrel-aged Pastry Stout (12.7%): Bottle Logic out of Anaheim has made a name for themselves far and wide with their Stasis series of barrel-aged stouts and barleywines, often with esoteric combinations of ingredients. Some of their concepts explicitly start by choosing a dessert and reverse-engineering it into beer form. This is one such occasion! In conjunction with San Diego’s very own GOAL Brewing, Infinite Variables is inspired by carioca. Not the demonym for the residents of Rio de Janeiro, but rather the Filipino pastry consisting of fried rice fritters coated with coconut and caramel. Aged up in Heaven Hill barrels for sixteen months with additions of coconut, marshmallows, toasted rice and vanilla, this is altogether toothsome stout.

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