What’s Tapping (9/26)

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!

• 3 Punk Ales (Chula Vista, Little Italy): La Flama Blanca Mexican-style Lager, 5%
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Mystic Vale Pale Ale, 6.1%
• Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Voyager English-style Ale, 6%
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Can We Be Friends West Coast IPA, 6.9% (collaboration w/ Harland Brewing)
• Artifex Brewing (Oceanside): Stack Me Greens Fresh-hop IPA, 7%
• Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Calico Amber Ale w/ Raspberry, Vanilla & Peppercorns on Cask, 5.5%
• Barley & Sword Brewing (North Park): Ye Olde Man & Scythe English-style Porter on Cask, 4.7%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Mango Tart Sour Ale, 5.8%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Straight Outta Names West Coast IPA, 6.9%
• Barrel & Stave Brewing (Vista): Vista Haze Hazy Session IPA, 4.8%
• BattleMage Brewing (Vista): One Hop to Rule Them All Single-hop IPA w/ Simcoe, 6%
• Bay City Brewing (Point Loma, East Village): Chilly Nelson Cold IPA, 6.5%
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Hell Hazer Triple Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): Medusa Imperial Milk Stout, 8.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Black Plague Brewing (Oceanside, Escondido, North Park): West Coast IPA, 7%
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Fresh Drip Fresh-hop IPA, 6.7% PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Grow All Out Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Little Italy): Single Source Fresh-hop IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Festoast Bier Vienna-style Lager, 6%, 
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft & Taxes Weizenbock, 7.9%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deft Perception Dunkel, 5%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): Deftoberfest Spezialbier German-style Blonde Ale, 4.7%
• Deft Brewing (Morena): ManGose Into a Bar Gose, 4.7%

• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Division Punch DIY Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Division 23 Brewing (Miramar): Ecto-Cooler DIY Hard Seltzer, 5%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Apple Pie Beer Slushie, 4%
• Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Harlequin IPA: Poured This Way West Coast IPA, 7%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): Carry On German-style Helles Lager, 5.3%
• East Village Brewing (East Village): It Takes a Village Hazy IPA, 6.7%
• GOAL. Brewing (North Park): Takutai Pai Pils New Zealand-hopped Pilsner, 5%
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Nelson!? In This Economy?! Single-hop West Coast Pilsner w/ Nelson Sauvin, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oecanside): Permanently Temporary Double Dry-hopped Cold Rye IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oecanside): Wait, Did You Print Out the Directions? West Coast IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Harland Brewing (Scripps Ranch, Carmel Valley, Bay Park, South Park): Modern Pilsner, 4.5%
• Helix Brewing (La Mesa): Baesic Batch Pumpkin Ale, 6%
• Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa): Slammin SD Hazy IPA, 7%
• Mason Ale Works (Vista): Murky Mouse Hazy Double IPA, 8%
• Mission Brewing (East Village, Kensington, La Jolla, Carmel Valley): Bring Me Along Mexican-style Lager w/ Salt & Lime, 4.7%
• Modern Times Beer (Point Loma, North Park, Encinitas): Fuzzy Logic Peach Sour Ale, 4.8%
• Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Vermillion Falls Hazy IPA, 7.2%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Dunkelweizen, 5.7%
• Nickel Beer Co. (Julian): Golden Nugget Wet-hop IPA, 7%
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Krush Kollider Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Macaroon Phenix Nitro Macaroon Stout, 5.8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): NP Export Dortmunder-style Export Lager, 5.4% – PURCHASE ONLINE
• North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): TDH Hop-Fu! Triple Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE

• Northern Pine Brewing (Oceanside, Carmel Valley): Daybreak Cold IPA, 6.3%
• Pizza Port (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Festbier Munich-style Helles Lager, 5.2%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Ray Gun Extra Pale Ale, 5.2%
• Pizza Port (Ocean Beach): Wet Lamborghini IPA, 7.2%
• Pizza Port (Solana Beach): Krisp Kölsch, 4%
• Pizza Port Carlsbad Village (Carlsbad): Slamarack Cold IPA, 6.5%
• Prey Brewing (Vista): Breaker West Coast IPA, 6%
• Protector Brewery (Miramar, Downtown): Organic Oktoberfest Lager, 5.4%
• Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Harmony Helles-style Lager, 4.1%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): Destroyer West Coast IPA, 8.1%
• The Roadies Brewing (Vista): German-style Pilsner, 4.7%
• Rouleur Brewing (Carlsbad): SRAM XPLR Pale Ale, 5.5%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Dubious Credentials Double Dry-hopped West Coast IPA, 7.3%
• Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Thoughtful Chaos Double Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10.2%
• Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): The Heiress Czech-style Pilsner, 5.3%
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Chronic Sunshine West Coast IPA, 7.2% (collaboration w/ Kauai Island Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• South O Brewing (Oceanside): Hana Hou Fruited Sour Ale, 7.4% (collaboration w/ One Drop Brewing) – PURCHASE ONLINE
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Jandals New Zealand-hopped IPA, 6.1%
• Sunny Grove Brewing (Santee): Sun Kissed Blonde Ale, 5%
• TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): Church of Chill Fresh-hop West Coast Pilsner, 5.2%
• Viewpoint Brewing (Del Mar): Maybe Next Week Fresh-hop IPA, 6.2% (collaboration w/ South O Brewing)
• WestBrew (Vista, East Village): Mosai Surfer Pale Ale, 6%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

pFriem Fresh Hop Hazy IPA | Fresh-hop Hazy IPA (6.8%): If you ask me, pFriem Family Brewers may have missed a trick by not naming this beer “pFresh Hop Hazy IPA”, but I am merely a beer retailer and weekly columnist! The harvest season is well and truly upon us. Wet-hopping is known synonymously as fresh-hopping by our Pacific Northwest neighbors, and since they generously grow most of the hops in this country, we will gracefully defer. More of an unfiltered IPA than an opaque hazy one, this bright offering is a gift from Hood River, Oregon. A rogue’s gallery of varietals – Citra, Mosaic and Eclipse from Yakima Valley, plus fresh iterations of Amarillo and Centennial – makes for a tropical medley and oh so texturally appealing IPA.

OEC Oktoberfest | Festbier(5.9%): 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.

Pizza Port Bacon & Eggs | Imperial Coffee Porter (8%): With the possible exception of AleSmith Brewing’s iconic Speedway Stout, no San Diego coffee beer inspires such devotion as Pizza Port Brewing’s Bacon & Eggs. A sumptuous blend of roasted grains and smooth, earthy coffee, this beer only comes around in the final months of the calendar year. We would carry it on a year-round basis if it were possible, but as that doesn’t seem to be in the cards – stock up now! [NOTE: Despite the name, this beer is suitable for vegans.]

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