What’s Tapping (5/9)

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): Riwaka the Line Single-Hop IPA, 6.5%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Death Star West Coast Double IPA, 7.9%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Beer Paper West Coast Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Checked Out Strawberry Lemonade Kettle Sour Ale w/ Lemon & Strawberry, 5%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Ripe Pursuit Non-alcoholic Lemon Shandy, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Darthbier Schwarzbier, 5.5%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Chasing the Muse West Coast IPA on Cask, 7% (collaboration w/ Ballast Point Brewing)
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): A New Hop IPA, 8% (collaboration w/ Pizza Port Brewing)
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): In My Darkest Sour Raspberry Kettle Sour Ale, 4.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Weekend Warrior West Coast Double IPA, 9% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): This is the Way Black IPA, 6.8%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Beach Daze Hazy IPA, 6.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Western Shore Double IPA, 8.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• California Wild Ales (Ocean Beach): Passionfruit Margarita Sour Ale, 5%
• Carlsbad Brewing (Carlsbad): Ain’t Got No Soul Hard Ginger Beer, 5%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (San Marcos, Oceanside): Valley of Discovery West Coast IPA
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Boston Harbor English Rye Mild Ale, 4.7%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Stoaked Oaked Brown Ale, 6.1%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): AMG West Coast IPA, 6.2%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Kampeon Filipino-style Rice Lager, 5%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Movies are the New Books Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.6%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Nectaron?! In This Economy ?! Hoppy Pilsner, 5.4%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): That New Lime Seltzer Hard Seltzer w/ Lime, 4%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Peacharine! (It’s What We Like Here) West Coast Single-hop IPA, 7.2%

• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): A.A.P.I. Sour Ale w. Mango, Apricot, Passionfruit & Strawberry, 7% (collaboration w/ Craftrock Brewing & Repubrew Craft Brewing)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Bohemian-style Pilsner, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Li Hing Mui Sour Ale, 6.1%
• Hodad’s Brewing (Serra Mesa): Brewtality Vienna-style Lager, 5.1%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Hoppin’ Pils New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): That Little Extra XPA Hybrid IPA, 5.2%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Feel My Rasp Raspberry Pale Ale, 5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Silk & Honey Wheat Ale, 5.8%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): I’ll Have What She’s Having India Pale Lager, 4.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Carlsbad): Queen of Tarts Barrel-aged Dark Cherry Sour Ale, 6.3%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Hazy Sky IPA, 6.3%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Thunderweizen Ale Hefeweizen, 5.5%
• The Lost Abbey (Vista): Noble Tendencies Czech-style Pilsner, 4%
• Mason Ale Works (Miramar): Ob-1 Can-Obi Double Dry-hopped Double IPA, 8.3%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Tiempos de Fortuna Double Dry-hopped Cold IPA, 7.5% (collaboration w/ Cerveza Fortuna)
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Big Mother Anniversary Triple IPA, 10.5%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Cliff Hanger San Diego IPA, 7.6%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Higher Learning Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Just in Time Maibock, 7.1%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Red Wine Barrel-aged Quit Stalin Russian-style Imperial Stout, 11.7%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Spice Cabinet Farmhouse Ale, 7%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Habanero Jalapeño Lime Lager
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Mosaic Hop Slap’d Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Blood Sweat & Orange West Coast IPA, 6.5%

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Extra Anchovies Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Roadshow German-style Schwarzbier, 5% (collaboration w/ Living Haus Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): TDH Art is Hard: Silver Label Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Oggi’s (Carmel Mountain, Vista, Encinitas, Del Mar, Point Loma, Mission Valley, College Area, Santee): Bien Fria Mexican-style Lager, 5.1%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Summer Moments IPA, 7%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Tres Casas Tropical IPA, 6% (collaboration w/ Shoots Fish & Beer)
• Pizza Port (Carlsbad): Haines AC Session Cold IPA, 4.2%
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Southbound & Down West Coast IPA. 7.1%
• Resident Brewing (Downtown): South Bay Hazy IPA, 6.8%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): De Oro Mexican-style Lager, 4.5%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Griswold 7-Hopped IPA, 7%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Trunnion Ice Cream Sundae Ale, 4.6%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Spaghetti Policy Double Dry-hopped IPA, 6.6%
• WestBrew (Vista, Del Mar, East Village): FlightLine West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Black IPA fermented w/ WLP001 California Ale Yeast, 7.5%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Black IPA fermented w/ WLP4040 Midwestern Ale Yeast, 6.9%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Hansen Hefe fermented w/ WLP380 Hefeweizen IV Yeast, 4.5%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Hansen Hefe fermented w/ WLP410 Belgian Wit II Ale Yeast, 5.2%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): R&D IPA fermented w/ WLP029 Kolsch Ale Yeast, 7%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): R&D IPA fermented w/ WLP1983 Charlie’s Fist Bump Yeast, 6.7%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Fieldwork Mo Pulp | Hazy IPA (6.9%): Good news everyone! A Fieldwork pallet has landed, all the way from my hometown of Berkeley. A special off-list item offered to Bottlecraft is a version of Pulp never hitherto seen around these parts ‒ Mo Pulp. Whereas the original Pulp is 100% Citra, this iteration affixed Mosaic to the dry-hop for an abundant citrus grove of aromas.

Gold Dot Helles Lager | Helles-style Lager (4.9%): The talented brewers at Gold Dot continue their unbroken streak! The latest ‒ and to my entirely subjective tastes, best ‒ lager thus far is a pitch-perfect Helles, with the welcoming roundness of pale malt. As we savor the final days of sunshine before May Gray and counterpart June Gloom set in, consider cracking one of these in the park and admiring the teal sky-blue label capped off by the eponymous gold dot.

Prairie Kiwi McSqueezy | Fruited Sour Ale (6.9%): If you had inquired ten years ago as to what Prairie was best known for, the answer would doubtlessly have fallen on the stout side of the beer-spectrum. Nowadays however, an enormous amount of creativity has gone into the brewery’s canned sours. Kiwi McSqueezy falls into this latter category, with a signature irreverent name and a cornucopia of fruits. Beyond just the eponymous New Zealand export, this beer also has apples and marionberries in the mix. Pouring a deep purple hue with magenta foam atop, this is a beer to drink with your eyes first!

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