What’s Tapping (8/29)

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): Major Pour San Diego IPA, 6.2%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Ziggy Sourdust Sour Ale w/ Passionfruit, 5.5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Open Mind Hazy IPA, 6.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Escondido): Purgatory IPA, 6% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Know Your Rights Czech-style Pale Lager
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Kia Ora New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 4.9% (collaboration w/ Cellarmaker Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Sick Suds! Double Dry-hopped IPA, 6.8% (collaboration w/ Cellarmaker Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Carlsbad Brewing (Carlsbad): Palomar By Air Pale Ale, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Near Deft Experience English-style Pale Ale, 5.6%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Gnarly Trails Triple IPA, 10%
• Eppig Brewing (Vista, Point Loma, East Village): Talons of Fury Hazy Double IPA, 7.7%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): All Your Friends New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Australian for Pay Hoppy Pale Ale, 5.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Bird Nerd German-style Pilsner, 5.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Josh’s New Tiny Shoes Session IPA, 4.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Salty Message German-style Sour Ale w/ Salt & Tea, 4.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Triple Dry-hopped The Other Brian Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Guadalupe Brewery (Vista): Liquid Sol Hazy IPA (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Ice Cold Cruiser Light Lager, 4%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Japanese Lager w/ Yuzu, 5%
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Krispy Day Kölsch, 5%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Everybodies Juicin’ Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Resident Brewing)
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rindstone Cowboy Grapefruit West Coast IPA, 7.1%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): What You Need West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Pumpkin Cream Pale Ale, 6%
• Jacked Up Brewery (Escondido): Scottish-style Ale, 5%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Solo Artist New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7%
• Julian Beer Co. (Julian): Vera’s Veil Dark Lager, 5.5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Oktoberfest Märzen, 5%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Dark Current Ale Black Saison, 8.5%
• Lightning Brewery (Poway): Double Negative Belgian-style Ale, 8.5%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Bride of Dankenstein West Coast IPA, 7%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Dankenstein’s Monster Unfiltered Double IPA, 9.3%
• Mcilhenney Brewing (Alpine): Family Trees West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Fifteen Forty (15h 40m) Japanese-style Lager, 5.2%
• Mike Hess Brewing (North Park, Downtown, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, Alpine): Lone Pine Double IPA, 9%

• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Hazy Booming Rollers IPA, 6.7%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Interstellar Mist Hazy Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Apricot Sour Berliner-style Weisse, 5.5%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Another Sip of Fear Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% (collaboration w/ Brujos Brewing, Fidens Brewing & Troon Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Ice-Fu! Double Dry-hopped Cold IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach):  NPBC8 Quadruple Dry-hopped Hazy Quintuple IPA, 15% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): NZ-Fu! Triple Dry-hopped New Zealand-hopped IPA, 7.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Cruise Together West Coast Pilsner, 4.8%
• Owl Farm Fermentation (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Berry Noir Berliner-style Weisse w/ Raspberry, 5.5%
• Owl Farm Fermentation (Vista, Oceanside, Fallbrook): Peachy Keen Berliner-style Weisse w/ Peach, 4.9%
• Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Dieguito Hoppy Pilsner, 5.4%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Pineapple Coconut Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Inspired Ambitions West Coast Pale Ale, 5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Vivid Expression Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7.1%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Arrival Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Outsider Amber Ale, 6.4%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Porch It Pale Ale, 6%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

This week’s theme is low-ABV (alcohol-by-volume) beers:

Beachwood Patio Project | West Coast IPA (6.1%): The inimitable Beachwood Brewing tends to produce flawless West Coast IPAs that fall right at the 7.1% mark. This new recipe thus represents a bit of a departure in that it is a full percentage point below. This does not detract in the slightest, mind you! Clearly designed with the aim of sitting on the patio and watching the world go by, the ineffable combination of Citra and Mosaic will surely make your cares and worries seem very far away.

Enegren Oktoberfest | Märzen (5.5%): It is late August at press time, which must mean that the Oktoberfest beers are landing! A stunning copper-toned amber lager incorporating Vienna malt alongside the more familiar Pilsner and Munich malts, this expression runs a bit low on the ABV for style but is none the worse for wear on account of it. Ideal for drinking in liters while seated at a shaded picnic table. Prost!

Russian River / Brooklyn Fonio | Belgian-style Blonde Ale (5.65%): Fonio is a “super grain” cultivated widely in Francophone west Africa, especially the Republic of Guinea. It needs neither insecticides nor fertilizers and only a small measure of water, making it one of the more exciting crops in the quest to feed the world without simultaneously starving it of every last resource. However, your first encounter with it may be in the form of this beer! The brainchild of Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery, this collaborative ale with Russian River Brewing includes said millet in a Belgian-style blonde, with all the estery goodness one might expect from such telltale yeast.

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