What’s Tapping (7/11)

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!

• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Non-alcoholic Blackberry Berliner-style Weisse, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Imperial Phantom Bride Double IPA, 9%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Executioner Hazy Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Gothica Mexican-style Lager, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Brewed This Way Session Hazy IPA (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Chilly Bin New Zealand-style Pilsner, 5.1% (collaboration w/ Mcilhenney Brewing)
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista): Mas Chula Pilsner, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft de Garde Bière de Garde, 7%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DubBelGique Belgian-style Dubbel, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Paisley Peach Imperial Tart Ale, 9.5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Smooth Operator Hazy IPA, 7.6%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Skåll New Zealand-style Pale Ale, 5.9% (collaboration w/ Ska Brewing)
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Chicago Ones Single-hop Hazy IPA w/ Citra, 6.7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Calmer Than You Are West Coast Double IPA, 8.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Just Two Things…Citra & Nelson! Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Premium Classics American Export Lager, 5.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Salty Message German-style Sour Ale w/ Salt & Tea, 4.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Doin’ Time Experimental Lager, 4.7%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): New Zealand Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Attitude Era West Coast Double IPA, 8.2%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): It Takes Two Juicy IPA, 7%
• Latchkey Brewing (Bay Ho): It’s My Jam Berliner-style Weisse w/ Raspberry & Black Currant, 6%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Family Trees West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): Non-alcoholic Hop Water (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Art Is Hard Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): The Coast with the Most Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Shadow Puppet Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% (collaboration w/ Freak Folk Bier) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Waka Waka Waka West Coast Pilsner, 4.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Summer Strand Single-hop Blonde Ale w/ Talus, 4.2%

• Owl Farm Unique Fermentations (Vista, Oceanside): Watermelon Tajín Gose, 5.7%
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Pale House Rock Pale Ale, 5.6% (collaboration w/ Goldwater Brewing)
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Southbound & Down West Coast IPA, 7.1%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): OB La Di OB La Da English-style Dark Mild Ale, 3.9%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Internal Monologue Cold IPA, 7%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Eclipsing Echoes West Coast Double IPA, 8.8% (collaboration w/ ISM Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Strangest of Places Murky IPA, 6.5% (collaboration w/ Great Notion Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Acier Guava Blonde Ale, 5%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Hoppy Ballona Hoppy Irish-style Red Ale, 5.3%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Pickle Me Cyrus Pickle Blonde Ale, 5.3%
• Smoking Cannon Brewery (Ramona): Trunnion Ice Cream Sundae Ale, 4.8%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Open Water New England-style IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Sun Kissed Blonde Ale, 5.7%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Citra Starburst Triple Dry-hopped IPA, 8%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

El Segundo / Fremont Peculiar Habits | West Coast IPA (6.2%): Two heavyweights of the West Coast team up once again for a lovely West Coast IPA. The hops of New Zealand show no sign of fatigue ‒ drinkers just cannot get enough of them. Peculiar Habits features a gorgeously rendered illustration of the Hooded Oriole (and even throws in the Linnaean name, Icterus Cucullatus) for all you members of the Audubon Society out there. This IPA is entirely hopped with Antipodean varietals, namely Motueka, Nelson and Riwaka, replete with aromas of peach rings, limeade and a gentle grassiness.

Everywhere Beautiful Something | Helles Lager (4.8%): Sometimes an uncomplicated beer is all that is called for. The recurring release Beautiful Something from our friends at Everywhere Beer up in Orange is just the ticket! A soft and welcoming pale lager brewed with Pilsner malt and Hallertau Mittelfrüh ‒ who could ask for anything more? This is a beer whose name really does say it all.

Off Color Yuzu Fierce | Yuzu Berliner Weisse (3.8%): Chicago’s extraordinary craft beer scene is sprawling, mercurial and welcoming enough to handle a healthy eccentricity. Having left Goose Island after their acquisition by AB InBev, John Laffler opened Off Color in 2013 and began brewing one of the wildest array of creations seen yet in that city. With whimsical pen-ink artwork and cheerful insouciance (sample text from list of ingredients: “HOPS: A little”), Off Color specializes in farmhouse ales and low-ABV sour beers. Yuzu Fierce is an example of the latter, a riff on “Fierce”, their fantastic recipe for a traditional Berliner Weisse. The base edition already exhibits lemony lactic acid notes from the kettle-souring process, but this iteration turns the dial up on those characteristics with an infusion of yuzu fruit. Truly a tart lemonade for adults!

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