What’s Tapping (7/25)

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!

• 3 Punk Ales Brewing (Chula Vista, Little Italy): Kill the Pour IPA, 6.5%
• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Boom Bap Juice Vol. 4 Juicy IPA, 7.1%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Mr. Padre 2000 San Diego Double Pale Ale, 8%
• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Mr. Padre 3000 San Diego Triple Pale Ale, 10%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy): Crye Me a River Pale Ale, 5.4%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Little Italy): Manta Ray Double IPA, 8%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Icewind Ale Hazy IPA, 6.4%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Ryeders of Rojan Rye IPA (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Hazy Phantom Bride IPA, 7.1%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Hop Highway IPA, 7.3%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Outside Your Mind Hazy Double IPA, 8.3%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Viva La Beaver Mexican Chocolate Milk Stout, 7.5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Dearly Departed 1-Year Anniversary Cold IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Gothica Mexican-style Lager, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Open Mind Hazy IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Burl Brown Ale, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Steal My Sunshine Fruited Sour Ale, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Bruxelles Trip Belgian-style Tripel, 9.4%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft Leicht Leichtes Helles Lager, 3.1%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftoberfest Märzen, 5.5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Half-a-Weizen Hefeweizen, 5.4%

• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): DIY Prickly Pear Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): DIY Watermelon Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Baja Blast Beer Slushie, 4%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Fruity Pebbles Beer Slushie, 4%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): High Five IPA w/ Red Pomelo, 6.1%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Smooth Operator Hazy IPA w/ Dragon Fruit & Mango, 7.6%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Ultimate Hoppy Lager, 5.5%
• Embolden Beer Co. (Miramar): Port Side Traditions American Lager, 4.3%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Painkiller Imperial Kettle Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Orange, Coconut, Cinnamon & Nutmeg, 6.5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Blackberry Shine Hard Seltzer w/ Blackberry & Lemon, 7.5%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Cocohut Coconut Milkshake IPA w/ Lactose & Coconut, 6.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Couldn’t Find he Words Austrian-style Pilsner, 4.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Happily Deceased California IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): No Flat Roads Belgian-style Blonde Ale, 5.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): There’s Always a Mirage at the Horizon Australian-style Cold Extra Pale Ale, 5.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Club House Hazy IPA, 6.8%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Melona IV Fruited Sour Ale, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Two Amigos Mexican-style Lager w/ Lime, 4.8%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): What You Need West Coast IPA, 7%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Boots + Stubbies Schwarzbier, 5%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Bring the Ruck-us West Coast IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co. & Societe Brewing)
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Dry Hop Drop New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 5.6%
• Kairoa Brewing (University Heights): Garston Gold 2.0 New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7.1%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Pitted Peach Gose, 4.7%
• Mason Ale Works: Murky Mouse Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8%

• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Parallel Paradise Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): City of the Dead Export Stout w/ Barrel-aged Coffee & Okinawa Black Sugar, 8%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Sundiver Lager w/ Salt & Lime, 5.8%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Blueberry Blonde Ale, 6%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Lime Jalapeño Lager, 5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Forever & Counting Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): NP Dunkel Munich-style Dunkel, 4.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): TDH Infinite Content Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Carlsbad): Wave Pool Champion West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): River Mouth Raspberry American Wheat w/ Raspberry, 6%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Amalgamation West Coast IPA, 6.6%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar, Downtown): Organic Mosaic Hazy Pale Ale, 5.3%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cosmic Dancer West Coast IPA, 7.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Murkury Rising Murky Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Ever Changing View West Coast IPA, 7.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Light Up the Room Fruited Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Orange & Guava, 4.8%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Mindset Provisions Fruited Sour Ale w/ Watermelon & Strawberry, 5%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): Fest Bier Oktoberfest Lager, 4.6%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Block Party Session IPA, 5%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): The River of Spectacle Hazy Triple IPA, 9.4% (collaboration w/ Root + Branch Brewing)
• Three Frogs Beer Co. (Santee): Blueberry Hefeweizen, 6.5%
• WestBrew (Vista, East Village): Salute IPA, 7.3%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

The theme this week is 13th anniversary beers. What a year 2011 was in retrospect!

Beachwood Hyperspeed | West Coast IPA (7.1%): A baker’s dozen years of incredible hoppy beers from Beachwood! True to form, they have concocted a West Coast IPA to mark the occasion. Hyperspeed hits us with high-velocity Mosaic (in three different forms), Strata and the increasingly popular HBC-586. The familiar blueberry tones of Mosaic are joined by resinous oils of all stripes. Cheers to Beachwood for thirteen years of unparalleled excellence in brewing!

Seek Cou Cou | Alsatian-style Pilsner (4.3%): Back in April at the San Diego Beer News Awards, I had the distinct honor to bestow the medal for Best Pilsner upon Dave Ohmer of Seek Beer Co. for his delicious Northern German Pilsner, Fortune. It soon became self-evident that we ought to ask whether he and his team would be willing to brew our anniversary beer for the occasion ‒ and couldn’t be more delighted with the outcome. Cou Cou (informal French for “Hello!”, typically among close friends or family) is a pilsner in the style of the beers of the Alsace. These light-bodied straw-colored lagers often have a floral bouquet from the Strißelspalt hops grown in the region alongside the justifiably celebrated white wines. Seek sourced some of these selfsame hops as well as pilsner malt from France, making it an unusually terroir-driven beer ‒ and just in time for the opening Paris Olympics on the 26th of this month. À votre santé!

[Begging your forgiveness for this repeat pick ‒ it fits all too perfectly with the theme!]

Enegren 13th Anniversary | Polotmavé (4.8%): Let’s break down the etymology of the style of this Czech-style amber lager, shall we? The word “tmavé” translates as “dark” ‒ indeed, many beers in Bohemia and Moravia are simply dubbed as such ‒ while “polo” simply means “half”. It thus follows that a lager of this hue and character would be “half-dark”! Caramel sweetbread entices on the nose, with a delightfully clean dry lager finish. Na zdraví!

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