What’s Tapping (4/4)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Italian Pilsner, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Biscuits & Gravy Hazy Double IPA, 8.5%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Can We Be Friends West Coast IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Fall Brewing)
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Czech Your Citra Hoppy Pilsner, 5.1%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Blueberry Lemon Non-alcoholic Radler, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Mango Non-alcoholic Sour Ale, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Raspberry Lemon Non-alcoholic Radler, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Tropical Reset Non-alcoholic Piña Colada Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Coconut & Lactose, <0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): PB&J Weissbier
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Gothica Mexican-style Lager, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Nyjah Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Foggy Memories Hazy IPA, 6.5%

• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): D-Lite 10th Anniversary Rice Lager, 4.2%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Iced Tea Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Margarita Cocktail Hard Seltzer, 15%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Nana Style Hazy Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Outlaw Oatmeal Stout, 5.8%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): POG Beer Slushie, 5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Crystal Kölsch German-style Kölsch, 5.3%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Helles Pale Lager, 5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Hop Boyz West Coast IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ North Park Beer Co.)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, South Park, Bay Park, Carmel Valley): Chocolate Haupia Pie Stout, 8%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Stone Core Stunner West Coast IPA, 7.5%
• InZane Brewing (Vista): Kolsch
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Feel My Rasp Pale Ale w/ Raspberry, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hazy Talk Hazy IPA, 6%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Smoked Porter, 6%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): The Godfather Italian-style Pilsner, 6% (collaboration w/ Societe Brewing)
• Mission Brewing (East Village, Kensington): Viva Kolsch Vegas Kolsch

• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Four Seasons Spring ’24 Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Brown Ale w/ Coconut, Chocolate & Coffee, 13%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hops Are Flowers Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Into the Nebula Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Rye So Serious Pale Rye Lager, 4.8% (collaboration w/ Moonlight Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port Bressi Ranch (Carlsbad): Almost Collab West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Murklands Murky Pale Ale, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): No Trouble in Paradise Smoothie Beer w/ Mango, Pineapple & Guava, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Overgrown Estate Murky Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): You Can Sit with Us West Coast IPA, 7%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Empowering Inclusion Hazy IPA, 7%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): Magic Lurks West Coast IPA, 7%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): He’s Makin Them at Night Rye IPA, 7.2%
• WestBrew (Vista, De Mar, East Village): Bountiful Earth Light Lager

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

A very special single-brewery set of picks this week!

Homage ¿Donde? | West Coast IPA (6.8%): The outstanding Homage Brewing – headquartered in Pomona but now also comfortably ensconced down the street from Highland Park Chinatown in Los Angeles – has made a delivery-run to our fair city! Debuting for us San Diegans is flagship West Coast IPA ¿Donde?, which picks a theme and sticks to it. An all-Mosaic hop bill ensures tropicalismo in a can. The answer to the question posed by the beer is: ¡Aquí!

Homage Tristeza | Northern German-style Pilsner (5%): Returning for a second pass from the selfsame brewery is Tristeza, a snappy lager in the style of Jever or Flensburger. The north of Germany is known for harder water and a tendency for bracingly dry pilsners that accentuate austere bitterness. Tristeza is available not only in cans but also (at the time of this writing) on draft at Bottlecraft North Park, so stop by for a splash before making your decision if you like? Prost!

Homage Wild Pink Robots | Strawberry Sour Ale (6%): Before venturing into “clean” beers such as the two above, Homage was chiefly known for mixed-fermentation creations, with or without fruit additions. For the first time ever, we have been granted a few SKUs of the types of ales that helped put Pomona on the craft beer map! Wild Pink Robots is a terrific example of synchronicity in seasonality, as the strawberry harvest is in full swing; I have been enjoying those grown by Kawano Farms* every morning of late. A barrel-aged tart saison is allowed to condition on strawberries for gentle delicate funk. This is not the only beer in the Robots series to have materialized, mind you…

* I have no affiliation with Kawano and am merely a huge fan. Try their wares at any farmers’ market in town!

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