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What’s Tapping (6/15/23)

Our weekly list of freshly tapping beers with quality Bottlecraft recommendations

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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!

  • Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Hit the Leicht German-style Leichtbier, 3.3%
  • Ataraxia Aleworks (Kearny Mesa): Smooth Sailin’ Pale Ale, 5.5%
  • Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Fruit Stand Series Raspberry Non-alcoholic Sour Ale, < 0.5%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Dreamed of a Big Star British-style Golden Ale, 5%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy, Morena): Schwarzveza Black Mexican-style Lager, 5%
  • Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Altstadt Kölsch, 4.9%
  • Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Beor Dearg Irish-style Red Ale, 4.2%
  • Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Bier von Bayern Weissbier, 4.2%
  • Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Bridge Blonde Ale, 5.2%
  • Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): D.O.R.A. London-style Brown Ale, 3.7%
  • Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Olde Man & Scythe English-style Porter, 4.4%
  • Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Mo Haze Till Brooklyn Hazy IPA, 6.7%
  • BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Summon Ifrit Hoppy Amber Ale, 6.1%
  • Bear Roots Brewing (Vista): Pineapple Express New Zealand-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.8%
  • Booze Brothers Brewing (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Pushing Daisies Czech-style Pilsner, 5%
  • Breakwater Brewing (Oceanside, Vista): Todos Santos Imperial IPA, 8.4%
  • California Wild Ales (Ocean Beach): Dynamic Lambic American Lambic, 7.5% (collaboration w/ Nickel Beer Co.)
  • California Wild Ales (Ocean Beach): LFG Gose, 5%
  • California Wild Ales (Ocean Beach): Passion Fruit Margarita Mixed-Fermentation Sour, 5%
  • California Wild Ales (Ocean Beach): Rainbow Weather Hazy Double IPA, 8.3%
  • Creative Creature Brewing (El Cajon): Baby Got Hops Hazy IPA, 7%
  • Creative Creature Brewing (El Cajon): Yotelada Mexican-style Lager w/ Mango, Umami, Tomato, Chile & Lime, 4.2%
  • Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Pineapple Hazy Session IPA, 5.1%
A new German-style Leichtbier dubbed Hit the Leicht is available in cans and on tap at Abnormal Beer Co.’s home base inside The Cork & Craft in Rancho Bernardo
  • Deft Brewing (Morena): DeftCon 4 Belgian-style Quadrupel, 10.3%
  • Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftoberfest Märzen, 5.8%
  • Deft Brewing (Morena): Half-a-Weizen Hefeweizen, 5.4%
  • Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Up and Down Under California Kölsch (collaboration w/ South O Brewing)
  • Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Hazy McBeer Face Double Dry-hopped Citrusy Hazy IPA, 6.5%
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Port Side Traditions Classic American Lager, 4.3%
  • Groundswell Brewing (Grantville, Chula Vista): Hubba Hubba American Double IPA, 8.3%
  • Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Puff Puff San Diego-style Pale Ale, 5.2%
  • Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Stoner Moment IPA, 7%
  • Heritage Brewery & Barbecue (Oceanside): Hoppy Greyhound West Coast IPA w/ Grapefruit, 6%
  • Heritage Brewery & Barbecue (Oceanside): Saddle Bum Session IPA, 4.8%
  • Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Big Fundamental New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7.1%
  • Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Hey Strata Strata Unfiltered IPA, 7.2%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Apricot Amber Ale, 6%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): El Gato Mexican-style Lager, 5%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hazy Talk Hazy IPA, 6%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Scottish-style Ale, 6%
  • Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Free Fallin Juicy IPA, 7.5%
  • Latchkey Brewing (Carlsbad): DoppelDacker Doppelbock, 6%
  • Latchkey Brewing (Carlsbad): The Dreamer IPA, 7%
  • Latchkey Brewing (Carlsbad): Fly Away Mosaic Pale Ale, 5.5%
  • Latchkey Brewing (Carlsbad): Now You’re Skrewed Skrewball Barrel-aged Imperial Stout, 11%
  • Latchkey Brewing (Carlsbad): San Diego 1915 American Light Lager, 4.5%
Altstadt Kölsch is one of six inaugural beers being rolled out as part of Barley & Sword Brewing’s soft-open launch at North Park’s Brewery Igniter facility this afternoon

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Smog City / El Segundo Smogberry | West Coast IPA (7%): Two breweries synonymous with Los Angeles are Smog City Brewing from Torrance and El Segundo Brewing from–you’ll never guess–El Segundo. Ostensibly competitors in the crowded Southern California market, they instead display a longstanding mutual respect for one another, having teamed up time and again for collaborative beers. Smogberry jumps off from El Segundo’s flagship Mayberry IPA, a Mosaic hop-bomb of a West Coast IPA. This tweaked recipe adds Ekuanot (fka Equinox) to the mix for a hops pas de deux rather than a virtuoso solo aria.

Enegren High Street | Vienna-style Lager (5.4%): This style of beer is all too apropos, as I am typing these words on a plane from Austria. Vienna lagers are closely related to Märzens, but whereas the Bavarians lean more on nutty Munich malt, the Austrians prefer a more caramel-forward Vienna malt. Both are ruddy red-brown beers with low ABV (alcohol-by-volume) capped off by gentle lager finishes. While the Märzen has become well known among beer aficionados, the Vienna lager has languished in relative obscurity–for most people in this country, the first (or only) example they may have tasted is Samuel Adams Boston Lager, with all that entails. For one more true to style, take an amble down High Street with our good friends from Enegren Brewing.

Girardin Geuze Girardin 1882 Black Label | Oude Gueuze (5%): One of the more unsung producers of traditional lambic is Girardin, 90% of whose output is sold to more established household names such as Drie Fonteinen and Cantillon. The remaining 10% is bottled under the Girardin mark and is consumed almost entirely within Belgium. Needless to say, shipments to our corner of the world only occur with huge interstitial time gaps. The last one occurred a full six years ago! Only one expression of Girardin lambic ever crosses the pond to he United States, that of the Black Label. Musty eucalyptus oak funk meets high carbonation for a stellar gueuze experience. I will personally be purchasing a few bottles of this outstanding beer and I recommend that all fellow lambic-lovers do so, as well.

[P.S.: The next time you find yourself in the Low Countries, do yourself a favor and pick up the corresponding White Label Geuze, distinct from the Black Label insofar that it is unfiltered. I will never turn down a Black Label but personally prefer the White Label; a few bottles of the latter are invariably brough home from every trip to Belgium, alongside the even rarer fruit lambics by Girardin.]

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