What’s Tapping (4/30/26)

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 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!

Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Blood of the North Mead, 9.5%
Arcana Brewing (Carlsbad): Hermit’s Graff Apple Ale, 5%
Athletic Brewing (Miramar): Aftershift Non-alcoholic Zest Session Brew, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Copper American Amber Ale on Nitro, 5.8%
Ballast Point Brewing (Little Italy): Juicy Fruit New England-style IPA, 6%
Burgeon Beer Co. (Carlsbad, Vista, Escondido, Downtown): For the Love of Beer IPA, 6.3% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista): Seven Bridges West Coast IPA, 6.7%
Chula Vista Brewery (Chula Vista): Super Juice: Double Mango Fruited Sour Ale, 6.6%
Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Mango Pineapple Hazy Pale Ale, 5.3%
Culture Brewing (Solana Beach, Encinitas): Papaya Mango Hard Seltzer, 5%
Deft Brewing (Bay Park): 7 Deftly Sins Barrel-aged Imperial Red Ale, 10.6%
Deft Brewing (Bay Park): Savvy & Deft FC Extra Special Bitter, 5.8%
Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Lemonade Radler, 2.9%
Duck Foot Brewing (Miramar, Leucadia): Strawberry Kiwi Beer Slushie, 5%
East Village Brewing (East Village): Captain’s Cut Triple IPA, 11%
East Village Brewing (East Village): Revel Raspberry Sour Ale, 7%
East Village Brewing (East Village): Saison Sauvage Barrel-aged Mixed Culture Farmhouse Ale, 7.5%
East Village Brewing (East Village): Strawberry Shake Hazy IPA w/ Strawberry, Vanilla & Coconut Milk, 5.8%
East Village Brewing (East Village): The Villager West Coast IPA, 7.1%
Gravity Heights (Sorrento Valley, Mission Valley): Tune Wave IPA 

Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Cocohut Coconut Milkshake-style IPA, 6.1% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Here We Are Belgian-style White Ale, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Enjoying the Pleasantries Double Dry-hopped Hazy IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Flying South Mexican-style Lager, 5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Moving Faster Than Needed West Coast IPA, 7.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Green Cheek Beer Co. (Oceanside): Swim Test Double Dry-hopped Hazy Triple IPA, 10.2% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Hopnonymous Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Normal Heights): Briellini Daydream Belini-inspired Hard Seltzer w/ Peach, Apricot, Pineapple & Orange, 6%
Karl Strauss Brewing (Downtown, Sorrento Mesa, 4S Ranch, Carlsbad): Valley Center Grapefruit Hazy IPA
Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Celestial Navigation San Diego IPA, 7%
Ketch Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Downtown, Point Loma): Krushin’ on Ketch(am) American Pale Wheat Ale, 5.3% (collaboration w/ Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station)
Latchkey Brewing (Bay Ho): Nug Nug Chug Pale Ale, 6%
Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): Big Mother Triple IPA, 10.5%
Mother Earth Brew Co. (Vista): My Neck…Maibock, 7.1%
New English Brewing (Sorrento Valley): Humbly Legit West Coast IPA, 7.5%
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Darth Filonious Triple Dry-hopped Hazy Double IPA, 8% – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Digital Jedi West Coast Pilsner, 4.7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
North Park Beer Co. (North Park, Bankers Hill, Pacific Beach): Hibernation Sickness Double Dry-hopped Cryo Fresh West Coast IPA, 6.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE

Pizza Port (Imperial Beach): Southbound & Down Double IPA
Pizza Port Brewing (Carlsbad, San Marcos, Solana Beach, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach): Summer Sunlight IPA, 7%
Poor House Brewing (North Park): BlackBerry Hard Seltzer, 5%
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Encrypted Sequence Murky Double IPA, 8.3% (collaboration w/ North Park Beer Co.) – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Grounded Non-alcoholic IPA, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Mai Tai Barrel-aged Hard Seltzer w/ Lime, Orange, Almond & Spices, 5.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Shifting Dunes West Coast IPA, 7% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Pure Project Brewing (Vista, Carlsbad, Miramar, North Park, Bankers Hill): Sunsip Non-alcoholic Blonde Ale, < 0.5% – PURCHASE ONLINE
Seek Beer Co. (North Park): Prism Path Hazy Triple IPA, 10.3%
Societe Brewing (Kearny Mesa, Old Town): Hecho En San Diego Mexican-style Lager w/ Salt & Lime, 4.5%
South O Brewing (Oceanside): Get Weller Soon Bourbon Barrel-aged Imperial Stout, 13%
South O Brewing (Oceanside): The Modal Nodes Blue Milk-inspired Sour Ale w/ Pineapple, Lime, Dragonfruit, Cantaloupe & Coconut, 7.8%
South O Brewing (Oceanside): Tightrope Czech-style Pale Lager, 4.2%
TapRoom Beer Co. (North Park, Pacific Beach): What’s Your Story Little Pilsner, 4%

Gene Fielden | Bottlecraft North Park Manager

RaR / North Park Sequential Art | Hazy Double IPA (8.5%): A drop from RaR Brewing out of Maryland is a rare occasion indeed! Based in the town of Cambridge on the eastern banks of the Chesapeake Bay, this brewery rarely sends beer in our direction. This collaborative beer with our friends and neighbors at North Park Beer Co. is a soft and pillowy hazy double IPA with heaps of Citra, Galaxy and Riwaka hops. Please join us at Bottlecraft Little Italy this Friday to taste this beer on draft, alongside a West Coast IPA collab with Everywhere Beer!

Gold Dot Sládek Pils | Czech Pilsner (4.9%): If you are in search of stellar lagers from Oregon, you deserve a Gold Dot. In the past, I have sung the praises of this operation ‒ a side project and labor of love by the new generation of Heater Allen ‒ but please permit me to do so again. A Czech-style Pilsner with Bohemian-derived hops, this beer is your springtime refresher this week! Sládek is a varietal developed in the Czech lands, a cross between Saaz and Northern Brewer with lineage dating back to the mid-1990s. Na Zdraví!

Russian River / Brooklyn Fonio | Belgian Blonde Ale (5.6%): Fonio is a “super grain” cultivated widely in Francophone west Africa, especially the Republic of Guinea. It requires 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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