What’s Tapping (7/27/23)

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): Cherry Limeade Imperial Berliner-style Weisse Beer Slushie
• Abnormal Beer Co. (Rancho Bernardo): Pineapple Blonde Ale Beer Slushie
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Cozy IPA Cold IPA, 7%
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Closer by the Mile Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5%
• Attitude Brewing (Barrio Logan): Last Hurrah American Porter, 6.7%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Common Home California Common on Nitro, 6%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Miramar, Morena, Little Italy): Crye Me a Lager American Rye Lager, 5.8%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): IPA’z Most Wanted West Coast IPA, 7.8%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Executioner Hazy Double IPA, 8% – BUY ONLINE
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Hüsker Düpont Hoppy Saison, 6.7%
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): What’s the Matter with You? Southern Hemisphere-hopped IPA, 7%
• Blue Fire Brewing (San Marcos): Electric Blues IPA, 7.3%
• Bolt Brewery (La Mesa, Little Italy): Stairway to Hazyville Hazy IPA, 
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Escondido, Little Italy): Simcoe, Party of One Pale Ale, 5.9%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado, Imperial Beach): Fossil Beach Hazy IPA, 7.3%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Beería English-style Brown Ale, 5.5%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Oscura Lager Negra, 5%
• Craft Coast Beer & Tacos (Oceanside): Seastar Hazy IPA, 7%
• Creative Creature Brewing (San Marcos, El Cajon): Grape Dogg Sour Grape Milkshake IPA, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Don’t Beat a Deft Horse Dunkelweizen, 6%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Make Mai Day Maibock, 7%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Kawaii Kölsch, a Downright Adorable Kölsch, 5.1%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Strawberry Beergarita Beer Slushie, 5%

• East Village Brewing (East Village): Dog Days American Pilsner, 4.9%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): This Is It Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit, 6.1%
• Fall Brewing (North Park, South Park): Enzo Unfiltered, Dry-hopped Italian-style Pilsner, 4.4%
• Helia Brewing (Vista): Cactik Sour Ale w/ Prickly Pear, Yuzu & Hibiscus, 4%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): N&N’s New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): The Berry-ier, the Better Kettle-Sour Seltzer, 7.5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): The Dorsty Lion Belgian-style Strong Golden Ale, 8.5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Slammin San Diego Hazy IPA, 7.1%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Honey Pale Ale, 5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Incognito West Coast IPA, 7%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Reaper Spicy Pale Ale, 5%
• The Lost Abbey (East Village, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, San Marcos): Every Everything West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• The Lost Abbey (East Village, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, San Marcos): Moral Codes Dank West Coast Double IPA, 8.5%
• The Lost Abbey (East Village, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, San Marcos): Unseen Things Tropical Rye IPA, 6.2%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Belgian Blonde Ale, 6.8%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): Dream Reaper Hazy IPA, 6.6%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Fluid & Flow Double IPA, 8.5% – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Friends & Robots Pilsner, 5.2% (collaboration w/ Human Robot Brewery) – BUY ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill): Hop-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – BUY ONLINE
• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Cold Shoulder Cold IPA, 7.3% (collaboration w/ Black Plague Brewing)
• Oceanside Brewing (Oceanside): Dazy Haze Hazy IPA, 6.1%
• Pizza Port Bressi Ranch (Carlsbad): Be& Juicy Pale Ale, 6%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Everyday Enjoyment IPA, 7%

• Pizza Port (Carlsbad): Four Way Street Belgian-style Quadrupel w/ Raisins, 9%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Citrapolis Double IPA, 8.2%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Gringo Loco Mexican-style Lager, 4.6%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Haze Budz Hazy IPA, 5.8%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): PBC Lyte American Light Lager, 4.5%
• Prohibition Brewing (Vista): Vista Way IPA, 7.3%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Cool River Cold IPA, 6.5%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Petrified Murky Double IPA, 8.3%
• Rip Current Brewing (San Marcos, North Park): High Surf Helles-style Lager, 5.2%
• Shoots Fish & Beer (Oceanside): Shoots Blonde Ale, 4.5%
• Shoots Fish & Beer (Oceanside): Shoots Double IPA, 8.5%
• Shoots Fish & Beer (Oceanside): Shoots IPA, 6.5%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): El Personaje Hoppy Lager, 6.2%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park): Devil’s Played Mead Barrel-aged Belgian-style Golden Strong Ale, 9.6%
• Thorn Brewing (Barrio Logan, North Park, Mission Hills): Royal Ralph Hazy IPA, 6.2%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Altbier fermented w/ WLP029 German Ale/Kölsch Yeast, 4.7%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Altbier fermented w/ WLP036 Dusseldorf Alt Yeast, 4.1%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Honey Blonde Ale fermented w/ WLP080 Cream Ale Yeast, 4.9%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Honey Blonde Ale fermented w/ WLP550 Belgian Ale Yeast, 4.9%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): SMaSH IPA fermented w/ WLP066 London Fog Dry Yeast, 5.6%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): SMaSH IPA fermented w/ WLP066 London Fog Liquid Yeast, 5.3%
• Wild Barrel Brewing (San Marcos, Temecula): Grade “A” Maple Incident Barrel-aged Oatmeal Stout w/ Maple Syrup, 10.7%

Gene Fielden | North Park Bottlecraft Manager

Fieldwork Imaginator | Hazy IPA (6.8%): Good news, everyone! We just received the largest pallet of Fieldwork Brewing bees in a very long time. The celebrated Berkeley brewery will surely have popped up on the draft-list at every Bottlecraft location by the time you read this. Moreover, a smattering of cans were included on the docket, not least of which is this newcomer to our shelves. An all-Nelson hazy IPA‒a cuvée of that wondrous varietal grown at two separate farms on the south island of New Zealand‒Imaginator imparts every aroma on the Nelson spectrum imaginable. Fieldwork releases tend to run out quickly around here, so stop by before this beer fades back into the realm of imagination.

Enegren Leicht | Leichtbier (3.7%): Why go big when you can go small? A rebrew of their eleventh anniversary lager, Enegren has shrunken the malt bill on a German-style pilsner recipe down to a crushable 3.7% (alcohol-by-volume). An all-malt light lager (without corn or rice, as is the case with most industrial macro lagers) is something to behold, especially as the temperature spikes. The beer sports a cheeky label echoing a certain Rocky Mountain brand and a cheerful insouciance towards the mega-conglomerates that dominate the beer market in this country. Ironically, Enegren now may need to rename one of its core beers…as it is no longer the Lightest One!

Japas Kapibara | Gose (4.4%): The capybara is the largest rodent in the world*, to be found all over South American as well as upon the label of this beer. Cervejaria Japas has emblazoned the creature emerging from a watermelon in a highly absurdist aesthetic…and why not? Spelled both in Portuguese and Japanese to reflect their multifarious self-identity, the women behind this Brazilian brewery have embraced the tart, slightly salty Gose and given it a dose of watermelon and ginger for good measure. Four capybara cubs have just joined the dramatis personae at the San Diego Zoo. Go meet your new neighbors after drinking their namesake beer. Saúde / Kanpai!

* I learned this from Wikipedia just minutes ago

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