What’s Tapping (8/21)

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 staff 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): Oktoberfest Non-alcoholic German-style Fest Brew, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy, Miramar): Maverick’s Last Flight Brut IPA, 7.2%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): White Wolf IPA, 6.2%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Hop Trail West Coast Pilsner, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Nectarhedron Hazy IPA, 7.4%
• Belching Beaver Brewery (Oceanside, Vista, North Park): Tropical Punch IPA w/ Tropical Punch, 6.7%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Beard Zero Hop Water w/ Galaxy Hops, 0%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Hopmata San Diego IPA, 7%
• Coronado Brewing (Bay Park, Coronado): Pumpkin Spice Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Bruxelles Trip Belgian-style Tripel, 9.2%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deft Not Daft English-style Pale Mild, 3.2%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deftly Hallows Foreign Extra Stout, 7.9%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Deftoberfest Märzen, 5.5%
• Docent Brewing (Carlsbad): Frisbee Mexican-style Lager, 5%
• Dogleg Brewing (Vista): Uncle Joe’s Tiki Sour Berliner-style Weisse
• Dos Desperados Brewery (San Marcos): Habeerneros Extra Pale Ale, 6.7%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): My Cousin Nelson New Zealand-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• Fall Brewing (Miramar, North Park, South Park): Everything Went Black German-style Schwarzbier, 5.2%
• Fox Point Brewing (Encinitas): Charity Case Wet Hop IPA, 7%
• Fox Point Brewing (Encinitas): Harvest Honey Ale, 5.2%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): All Out of Angst West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Oaksner Barrel-lagered American Pilsner, 4.5%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Safety Jacket Non-alcoholic West Coast IPA, 0.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): That’s My Thing! ’25 Non-alcoholic Hazy IPA, 0.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Framboise Faux Pas Belgian-style Ale w/ Raspberry, 5.9%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Märzen German-style Lager, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Memory Montage Cold IPA, 5.8%
• Hodad’s Brewing (Serra Mesa, Downtown, Ocean Beach): Cool Story, Bräu! Munich-style Helles Lager, 4.8%
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): Best Friend to Yakitori Japanese-style Lager, 5%
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): Murder of the Universe Stout, 5%
• Home Brew Mart (Morena): Oh My Stars! IPA, 7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Juniper Flats Finnish-style Sahti, 8.7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Red Planet Tangerine IPA, 6%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Weasel Brown Ale, 5.6%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Celestial Navigation San Diego IPA, 7%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Dr. Billheimer’s Magic German-style Pilsner, 5.5%
• Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Hazy Conditions Hazy IPA, 6.4%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): The Kölsch, 4% (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Fruit Bomb: Passion Dragon Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit & Dragon Fruit, 5.2%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Pershing Pils, 4.8%
• Mission Brewing (Miramar, La Jolla, Carmel Valley, Kensington, East Village): Everyday California Coastal Ale, 5.5%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Humbly Legit IPA, 7.5%
• Night Parade Brewing (Scripps Ranch): El Jaguar Mexican-style Lager, 4.6%

• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Burlingame Black Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Elder-Fu! Double Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8% (collaboration w/ Russian River Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): X-Raying Citra Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Paloma our Berliner-style Weisse, 5%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Here’s the Thing Extra Pale Ale, 4.8%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): One More Hour Pale Ale, 5%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Beachside Reset IPA, 7%
• Poor House Brewing (North Park): Let’s Get Slammed Hazy IPA, 6%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar, Downtown): Alpine Organic Pale Ale, 4.3%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Drifting West West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Topa Topa Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Murka Obscura Murky Double IPA, 8.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Roxxx Anne Red Amber Ale, 6.5%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Tropical Hard Seltzer, 5%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Blood Orange Hard Seltzer, 6.5%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): San Diego Pils, 5.8%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): San Diego Porter, 5.4%
• San Diego Brewing Co. (Mission Valley): Tangelo Hard Seltzer, 6.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Determining Factors West Coast IPA, 6%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Rebirth of Cool Cucumber Lime Hard Seltzer, 5.6%
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Oceanside, Point Loma, Downtown): Stone 29th Anniversary Double IPA, 8.5%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Delaney’s Irish-style Red Ale, 5.1%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Russian River Bring Back Brewer’s Gold | Hazy IPA (6.5%): The RnD series from Russian River Brewing consists of one-off IPAs ‒ often with experimental hops ‒ to be enjoyed briefly and then never seen again. This beer is thus quite a departure, being both one such recipe resurrected from the vault and given a real name, and also showcasing a historic varietal! Once known as “RnD #54 Hazy IPA”, the moniker demands the return of Brewer’s Gold, which date back more than a century. Russian River developed this offering in conjunction with CLS Farms in the Yakima Valley, famed for their hops throughout the length and breadth of the brewing world.

OEC Oktoberfest | Festbier (4.9%): For decades, B. United International has imported an esoteric blend of beers and other beverages from Europe and Japan, funneling them through their Connecticut headquarters. In recent years, they have embraced innovative methods of delivering fresh imported beer by shipping tankers of the stuff over the oceans to be canned off at that selfsame facility. The cans of Aecht Schlenkerla and Hitachino Nest (to name but two of the best) that you see on our shelves emanate from that process. Hosting that canning line is Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores (OEC), a dog-Latin translation of “Order of the Eccentric Boilers”, a brewery with a surfeit of talent. Their Oktoberfest is quietly spectacular, a tour de force for the autumnal lager style.

Jester King 分 桃 Fēn Táo | Barrel-aged Sour Beer (6%): Jester King is renowned as the foremost sour brewery in Texas (if not the entire American South) ‒ their farmstead in the Hill Country outside of Austin is an absolute must for any beer-lover passing through the area. Complex and beautiful mixed-fermentation ales are aged up in oak before meeting and mingling with the fruits that will determine their destinies. This all too rare release is liberally dosed with peaches from Vogel Orchard just down the road from the brewhouse. The result is showstopping ‒ acid funk juicy peach flesh with slight tannin from the skins.

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