What’s Tapping (8/22)

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): Swing Juice American Light Lager, 4.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Cryo Currency West Coast IPA, 6.5%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Decade of Dank 10 Year Anniversary West Coast Pilsner, 5.2% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.)
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Fruit Stand Non-alcoholic Tropical Sour Ale, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Paceline Pedal Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5%
• Aztec Brewery (Vista): Aztec Gold Premium Craft Lager, 4.5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): After Party Strawberry Limeade Hard Seltzer, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Daywalker American Red Ale, 6.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): In My Darkest Sour Mixed Berry Kettle-sour Ale, 4.6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Stay Chill Gluten-reduced Blonde Ale, 4.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Midlife Crisis IPA
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Du Hast Munich-style Dunkel, 4.7%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): In Praise of Bacchus Lambic, 6.7%
• Burning Beard Brewing (El Cajon): Thin Fizzy Hard Seltzer w/ Calamansi & Passionfruit, 4%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista): Mango Lemonade Hard Seltzer, 5.3%
• Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista): Prickly Pear Hard Seltzer, 6%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft Perception Dunkel, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): DeftHopt Amber IPA, 5%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Pounder Pale Ale, 5.4%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): CRYOluminescence IPA, 6.5%

• East Village Brewing (East Village): Gnarly Trails Triple IPA, 10%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Sandlot Belgian-style Blonde Ale, 6.1%
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma, East Village): Talons of Fury Hazy Double IPA, 7.7%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Alpine to the Blvd West Coast IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ Mcilhenney Brewing)
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Destination Off-Road West Coast IPA, 6.7% (collaboration w/ Pure Project Brewing)
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): ONE2323 Barrel-Aged Dessert Stout w/ Coconut, Vanilla & Coffee, 16.5%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Ube Coconut Haze Hazy IPA w/ Coconut & Ube, 6.7%
• Gravity Heights (Sorrento Valley): Pacific Notions New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7.2%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Never Ending Journey West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Uchu Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Weaver of Dreams Smoothie-style Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Mango, Peach, Tangerine & Blue Agave, 6% (collaboration w/ Uchu Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Dark Humor New Zealand Extra Pale Ale, 5.4% (collaboration w/ Black Plague Brewing)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Märzen German-style Fest Bier, 5% (collaboration w/ Tripping Animals Brewing)
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Haze for Horses Hazy IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Comix Fiesta Mexican-style Lager
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Lite as a Feather Japanese-style Lager, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Royal Tanninbaums Fruited Kettle Sour Ale, 6.8%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Hazy Talk Hazy IPA, 6.5%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Janis Hoplin West Coast IPA, 6%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Ferret Dry-hopped Amber Ale, 5.5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Silk & Honey Wheat Ale w/ Honey, 6.5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Weasel Brown Ale, 5.6%
• Knotty Brewing (East Village, Rancho Peñasquitos): Stellar Tropics Sour Ale, 5.7%

• Latchkey Brewing (Bay Ho): It’s Not Alrye’ght Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Cray Cray West Coast IPA, 7%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Hop Smash Double Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): All Gas, No Breaks West Coast IPA, 6.6%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Nothing But Nelson Single-hop IPA, 6.6%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Belgian-style Witbier, 5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Double-Fu! Triple Dry-hopped West Coast Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Mess with the West, Die Like the Rest Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): TDH Art is Hard: Celadon Label Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Imperial OB Haze Hazy IPA, 8.9%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Desert Moonlight West Coast IPA, 7.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Nomad Hefeweizen, 5.7%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Surreal Life Murky Double IPA, 8.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Resident Brewing (Chula Vista): Lemon Kissed Perky Blonde w/ Lemon, 5.2%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): Endo West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): Time Trial IPA, 6.3%
• San Diego Brewing (Mission Valley): Ohana Mana Wet-hop IPA, 5.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Hop Water w/ Mosaic Hops & Grapefruit
• Shoots Fish & Beer (Carlsbad): Japanese-style Lager, 5%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Magenta Mountain Extra Pale Ale, 6%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): The Goombah Italian-style Pilsner, 5.4%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

El Segundo Hammerland | West Coast IPA (8.6%): I don’t make it out to the beach very often, but the late-summer heat sent me to OB over this past weekend. I sat on the sand and watched the surfers and boogie-boarders paddle out and come crashing back in. Wading out into the (surprisingly warm) ocean meant encountering forceful waves ‒ everyone jumped simultaneously to avoid being struck in the face with primordial salt water, like synchronized divers. Named after a break in the eponymous town of El Segundo, Hammerland is a similarly powerful double IPA loaded with Simcoe and Mosaic hops. This beer comes and goes like the tides, so pick a can up now!

Weihenstephaner Festbier | Festbier (5.8%): Easily the most anticipated seasonal release from the self-described “oldest brewery in the world” (claiming nearly a thousand years of brewing tradition), Festbier is brewed in the Wies’n style. How does this differ from the hitherto predominant Märzen? Glad you asked! Both contain Pilsner and Munich malts, but whereas Märzens have a higher proportion of Munich (imparting that lovely toasty bready nuttiness), for Wies’ns it is the other way around. This makes for an ideal pale strong lager for the late summer into early autumn. Prost!

Cellador Now, More Than Ever | Barrel-aged Sour Ale (6.4%): Masumoto Family Farm, located outside of Fresno, is a byword for absolutely flawless peaches and nectarines. Longtime fans of sour beer in Southern California will instantly recognize their mastery of stone fruit from Cuvée de Masumoto, a tribute by Mark Jilg of Craftsman Brewing. Cellador Ales has sourced Masumoto fruit for many previous wine barrel-aged sour beers, but this one is a new recipe! Dosed with flavorcrest peaches and almond, Now, More Than Ever is a beer whose name speaks for itself.

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