What’s Tapping (7/4)

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!

• AleSmith Brewing (Miramar): Barrel-aged Speedway Stout: Vietnamese Coffee Edition, 13.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Can We Be Friends West Coast IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Beachwood Brewing)
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Czech Your Waimea Hoppy Pilsner, 5.1%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Guilded Together IPA, 6% (collaboration w/ Los Molinos Beer Co.)
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): The Seagull Has Landed West Coast IPA, 6.4%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Divine Light Strawberry Blonde Ale, 4.8%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Hooded Assassin Old Ale, 9.5%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Deftones Imperial Phantom Bride IPA, 9%
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Endless Mountains Saison, 7% (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Extra Innings American Lager, 5.3% (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Frodo, Don’t Wear the Ring New Zealand-style IPA, 6.2% (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Eternal Growth Hazy IPA, 6.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Lion’s Reign IPA, 6.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): CoffeeCore Coffee-infused Czech-style Pilsner, 5.5%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Shandy Warhol Lemon Shandy, 3%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DeftHopt Rustic Hazy-ish Hybrid IPA, 6.1%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Koru New Zealand-style Pilsner, 5.5%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Workin On It Pale Ale, 6.5%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Revel Raspberry Sour Ale, 7%

• Eppig Brewing (Point Loma): Independence Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Mr. Tallyman Hefeweizen, 5.5%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Completely Uninvisible Cold IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Forced Optimism Hazy IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Let’s Keep It Low Key Helles-style Lager, 4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Like Hugging a Cat Double Dry-hopped Triple IPA, 10.2% (collaboration w/ FrauGruber Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Perpetual Noddle’n West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Pierre’s Paloma-style Hard Seltzer, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Poolsner Lager, 4.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Doin’ Time Lager, 4.7%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Paloma Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): It Takes 2 Juicy IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Leaving Without Saying Goodbye Irish-style Red Ale, 5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Bad Ass Bitch Double IPA, 9.7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Free Fallin’ West Coast IPA, 7%
• Lighting Brewery (Poway): Blue Sky IPA, 7.4%
• Lighting Brewery (Poway): Red Arc IPA
• The Lost Abbey (Vista, San Marcos, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, East Village): Pickleball Pale Ale, 6.2%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Muntz New Zealand-style Rye IPA, 7.2%

• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): 10 Min Easy 100% Citra IPA, 6.5%
• My Yard Live Beer Co. (San Marcos): San Diego SteelToes West Coast IPA, 7.6%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Aroma Constrictor Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.2% – 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 Pils Bavarian-style Pilsner, 4.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Raspberry Blaster Fruited Sour Ale, 6.9% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Gramps Lager, 4.5%
• Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Tow In Double IPA, 8.5%
• Pizza Port (San Marcos): Amigo Mexican-style Lager, 5.5%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Mixed By Waterfall Chocolate Milk Stout w/ Cacao, 5%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Shifting Dream New Zealand-style Pale Ale, 5.8%
• Pizza Port Bressi Ranch (Carlsbad): Swim Cap West Coast Pilsner, 5.4%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Ode to OG Unfiltered West Coast IPA, 6.6%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Mind Mischief Watermelon Sour Ale, 7%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Show & Tell Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Slamms American Light Lager, 4.8%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Jandals New Zealand-style IPA, 6.4%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Jubilee English-style Mild Ale, 4.4%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park): Air Dancer West Coast IPA, 7.2%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Pure Project United | Hazy IPA (6.9%): The color combination of red, white and blue clearly has struck a chord among designers of national signifiers, for it appears on the flags of (among others) Chile, Czechia, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, Thailand and of course the United States. Bold vertical swathes thereof adorn this annual release from Pure Project, featuring Citra and Mosaic hops and an earnest appeal to unity.

Prairie ‘Merica Y’all | Hazy IPA (6%): The Oklahomans are at it again! Our favorite oddballs from Krebs have come up with an IPA whose label is festooned with as much irreverent Americana as can be crammed onto one 12-ounce can. This is one of those beers whose title demands to be read out loud, as phonetically as possible. Amusingly, the hops utilized are Nelson Sauvin, famously hailing from the south island of New Zealand ‒ all the more delightfully incongruous. Enjoy outdoors, ideally in bare feet or flip-flops on the grass.

Enegren Liberty Pils | German-style Pilsner (4.8%): Readers of this column will know that I am an unapologetic fan of Enegren’s single-hop pilsner series – and few varietals are as storied and nowadays obscure as Liberty. Exploding onto the scene in 1976 (!) with its inclusion in the eponymous Liberty Ale by Anchor upon the occasion of the bicentennial of this country, the newfangled hop widened eyes with what was contemporaneously perceived as bracing bitterness. Maintaining the 4th of July leitmotif, Enegren’s can-art is rendered in that familiar tricolore palette, with fireworks to boot. Cheers to a Thursday holiday!

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