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What’s Tapping (6/29/23)

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, 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): Turbidity Hazy Double IPA, 8.5%
  • AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Port Wine Barrel-aged Old Numbskull Barleywine, 13.9%
  • Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Smile From a Veil Export Brown Ale, 6.8%
  • BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Chaos Bolt Fruited Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit & Raspberry, 5%
  • Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Beav Heavy American Lager, 7%
  • Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Kiwi Hop Expedition West Coast IPA, 6.9%
  • Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Misty Mountain Hazy Double IPA, 8%
  • Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Southern Charm New Zealand-hopped Cold IPA, 7.2%
  • Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Tropical Terps IPA w/ Terpenes, 6.5%
  • Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido): Press Go American Light Lager, 3.9%
  • Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Hazy IPA, 6.7%
  • Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Thin Fizzy Hard Seltzer w/ Orange & Prickly Pear, 4.5%
  • Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista, Eastlake): La Brumosa Hazy IPA, 6.5%
  • Creative Creature Brewing (El Cajon, San Marcos): Leaky Kettle Butterscotch Hard Soda, 5%
  • East Village Brewing (East Village): Elevated West Coast Hazy Hybrid IPA, 6.9%
  • East Village Brewing (East Village): Izola Kvass Ukrainian-style Kvass, 4.9%
  • Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Slack Tide Dry-hopped Citrus Radler w/ Grapefruit, Lemon & Lime, 3.8% (collaboration w/ Coronado Brewing)
  • Five Suits Brewing (Vista): Pickleball Pils, 3.9%
  • Gravity Heights (Sorrento Mesa): Crystal Visions Cold IPA, 6%
  • Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Active Session IPA, 4.4%
  • Hodad’s Brewing (Serra Mesa): Mythical Features Hazy IPA, 7.5% (collaboration w/ Coronado Brewing)
Mythical Features, a new hazy IPA crafted by Hodad’s Brewing in collaboration with Coronado Brewing, will hit shelves tomorrow
  • Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Big Stick Policy Imperial Hard Seltzer w/ Pineapple & Cherry, 8%
  • Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Eastbound & Down Under New Zealand-hopped Session Cold IPA, 4.5%
  • Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Iris and the Giant Peach Kettle Sour Ale w/ Raspberry, Strawberry, Blueberry, Apricot & Peach, 7.1%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hippy Hoppy Hazy IPA, 6.5% (Homebrew Summer collaboration)
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Incognito West Coast IPA, 7%
  • Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Scottish Amber Ale, 6%
  • Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Anchor Down Triple IPA, 12.7%
  • Little Miss Brewing (Logan Heights, Eastlake, Lakeside, La Mesa, Normal Heights, East Village, Miramar, Poway, Escondido): Tropic Thunder Citrus IPA, 7.3%
  • New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Blueberry Blonde Ale, 6%
  • New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Pure & Simple West Coast IPA, 6.5%
  • North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Art Is Hard Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
  • North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Charlie-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.1% (collaboration w/ Magnanimus Brewing)
  • North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Covington American-style Pilsner, 6%
  • North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Simpler Division Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5%
  • Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Roam V2 Hazy IPA, 6.9%
  • Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Tmavé Pivo Dark Czech-style Lager, 5.4%
  • Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Pier Bier Czech-style Pilsner, 4%
  • Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cloud Mountain Murky Double IPA, 8.5%
  • Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Shake the Ground Murky Triple IPA, 10.2%
  • Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Planck’s Peppers Habanero Pale Ale, 8%
  • Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Project 66 New England-style IPA, 6.6%
  • Quantum Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Quantum Quad Belgian-style Quadrupel, 10.7%
One of the newest beers at North Park’s Seek Beer Co is a smoky altbier created in concert with Fall Brewing, 8bit Brewing and Wolf King Brewing

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Moonlight Pallet Forager | West Coast IPA (7.2%): You may have noticed pickup trucks piled high with wooden pallets driving around from time to time. Certain individuals will apparently make the rounds, picking up discarded pallets from grocery stores and warehouses far and wide. Ostensibly these nailed stacks of wood have intrinsic value and can be exchanged in the fungible matter? Those who know more on this topic should write in with their insights. In any event, Moonlight Brewing spotlights these foragers with a new West Coast IPA recipe highlighting Riwaka hops form New Zealand. Firmly bitter and resinous, like a stack of cordwood.

Moonlight Side of Rice | Rice Lager (4.7%): Who among us does not love rice lagers? Long the preserve of legacy Japanese breweries, nowadays many talented craft operations have set their minds and talents to the style. As Moonlight already specializes in stellar lagers, it was only a matter of time before one such beer emerged from their R&D ranks. Light-bodied yet brilliantly effervescent with gentle rice puffs and a modicum of bitterness, this beer is all too refreshing and goes down well in multiples.

Moonlight 9 5/16° P | Tmavé Pivo (4.1%): The lagers of every color spectrum in the Czech lands are renowned worldwide. Apart from pilsners and pale lagers, this encompasses a whole family of beers beyond idle imagination. Those ruddier in hue are created by toasting malts, imparting all manner of bready aromas and flavors. Moonlight 9 5/16° P (the name is a direct references to degrees Plato, the traditional means of measuring potential alcohol in beer in Bohemia and Moravia) pays homage to the long and storied Czech brewing tradition. Na zdravi!

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