What’s Tapping (9/18)

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 and Point Loma!

• Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Apricot Acres Non-alcoholic Farmhouse-style Brew w/ Apricot, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): Everfrost Cold IPA, 6.2% (collaboration w/ Burgeon Beer Co.)
• Bear Roots Brewing (Vista, Escondido): Midnight Fiesta Dark Mexican-style Lager, 5.1%
• BLAH Brewing (Normal Heights): Brewery Rowe San Diego IPA
• Breakwater Brewing (Vista): A Californian in King Arthur’s Porter (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• California Wild Ales (Point Loma, Ocean Beach): I’m Kind of a Big Dill Barrel-aged Pickle Sour Ale, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Curly Tail Red Irish-style Ale, 5.4%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): DoubleDeft Secret DoppelSticke Altbier, 9.2%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Fear the Deft Star Kottbusser, 5.8%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Kirschbier Gose w/ Cherry, 4.3%
• Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Legion’s Revenge Extra Special Bitter on Cask, 5.8%
• Eppig Brewing (Point Loma): Festbier, 6%
• Fox Point Brewing (Encinitas): Foxtoberfest Märzen, 4.7%
• Gravity Heights (Sorrento Valley, Mission Valley): Portrait of Van Gogh Belgian-style Witbier (San Diego Beer News Homebrew Summer collaboration)
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Another Shade of Green Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Hangin’ in the  Void Double Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Light for Dayz Kölsch, 4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): What Good Curves Can You Throw? West Coast Pilsner, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Aim for the Bushes Wet Hop West Coast IPA w/ Strata, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Got Tegridy San Diego IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Rain or Shine Hazy IPA, 7%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Stein O’Mite German-style Lager, 5%
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Bristol Fashion West Coast IPA
• Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Carlsbad): Helles Lager
• Little Bird Brewing (North Park): Picnic Punch Fresca Hard Seltzer w/ Strawberry & Blackberry, 5.5%
• Mason Ale Works (Barrio Logan, Point Loma): Point Blank West Coast IPA, 6.8%
• Michi Brew Co. (San Marcos): Shoobie Parime Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Hop Diggity Double IPA, 8.2%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Wakumi Japanese-style Lager, 4.7%
• New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Mosaic Hop Slap’d Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Children of the Rye Wet Hop Red Ale, 6.1%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Extra Anchovies Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8.5% – 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): Parktoberfest German-style Festbier, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Strata Rocket Double Dry-hopped Wet Hop IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Tow In Double IPA, 8.5%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Wet Lamborghini Fresh Hop IPA, 6.8%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Brass Bell English-style Pale Ale, 4.6%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Harmony Helles-style Lager, 4.1%

• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): A Haze of Two Cities Murky Double IPA, 8.3% (collaboration w/ Original Pattern Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Simple Substance West Coast IPA, 7% (collaboration w/ Shred Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Rincon Reservation Road Brewery (Valley Center): Oasis Blonde Ale, 4.2%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Dececptacon West Coast IPA, 7.2%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Shake It Off Single-hop Wet-hop West Coast IPA w/ Mosaic, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Culver Beer Co.)
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Domino Theory Hazy IPA, 6.2%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): The Grape Gatsby Grape Soda-inspired Hard Seltzer, 5.6%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): OSSU! オッス! Japanese-style Lager, 5%
• Stone Brewing (Escondido, Oceanside, Downtown, Point Loma): Imperial Zombie Love Potion Imperial Porter w/ Chocolate & Pomegranate, 9%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Jandals New Zealand-hopped IPA, 6.4%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Church of Chill Single-hop Fresh Hop West Coast Pilsner w/ Strata, 5.8%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): DAMP Wet Hop West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Fresh Air Wet Hop West Coast IPA, 6.7%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Jagged Hedge Wet Hop Double IPA, 8%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Super StarFresh Wet Hop West Coast Double IPA, 8%
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Hansen Hefe Hefeweizen fermented w/ WLP029 Kölsch Ale Yeast
• White Labs Brewing (Miramar): Hansen Hefe Hefeweizen fermented w/ WLP300 Hefeweizen Ale Yeast

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

Everywhere Nothing in the Way | West Coast IPA (7%): A drop from Everywhere Beer is always cause for celebration around here! Jeremy Grinkey and his crew showered us with a plethora of imaginative and delicious beers, not least among them this double dry-hopped West Coast IPA. Nothing in the Way is brewed with strictly Pilsner malt for a lean body and gifted with a mélange of Citra, Krush, Nectaron and Riwaka. With their predilection for New Zealand hops mixed in with Pacific Northwest varietals, this is an Everywhere beer par excellence.

Ghost Town Shovel Ready | Hoppy Pilsner (5.8%): The phrase “shovel ready” typically refers to planned infrastructure projects that are all ready to go which just need initial funding allocated in order to commence. In the hands of Ghost Town, however, with the brewery’s familiar macabre nomenclature and iconography, this transforms into something much more ominous. In any event, this hoppy lager is loaded with shovelfuls of Citra and Mosaic. Can you dig it?

Ayinger Oktoberfest-Märzen | Märzen (%): I have had the distinct privilege of tasting scores of Märzens over the years and yet Ayinger Oktoberfest-Märzen remains my absolute favorite. In fact, there is no beer that I more look forward to every year as autumn approaches. The brewery is located in the eponymous village of Aying, directly south of Munich. The beer itself is a coppery, goldenrod hue and completely clear. Bready barley-malts, light caramel and a whiff of chestnuts appear in the aroma. The bottom-fermenting lager yeast, as well as the lagering process itself, make for an astonishingly bright finish, crisp and clean. We will be featuring this beer on draft at Bottlecraft North Park next Friday, September 26, with a selection of Ayinger-branded glassware included in the price of your pint to take home thereafter. Prost!

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