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Monday thru Friday: 11am to 3pm $6 lunch special - Tavern burger, Carne Asada Burrito, or any Salad with Chicken / add a pint for $4 more. Happy Hour 3pm to 7pm - $5 shots, $4.50 pints & appetizers.
Tuesday: Tiana's $2.50 Fish Tacos
Wednesday: Cask Beer Tapped at 3pm, $6 Irish Ruben w/ fries
Saturday: $5 Chicken Parmesan Sandwich, $5 UFC nights
Sunday: $4.25 Breakfast Burritos, $3 Bloody Marys & Mimosas, $6 Fish N' Chips, VIP $3.50 pints & Liter fill specials. Happy Hour all day.
Sunday & Monday: VIP $3.50 pints & liter fill specials

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  518 East Main Street, El Cajon, California 92020
  (619) 749-6333
  www.maintaptavern.com

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Tap List - 23

2 Towns Ciderhouse Prickle Me Pink   
2 Towns Ciderhouse  ·  Corvallis, OR
Pint : $7.00
Exuberant & quenching, Prickle Me Pink^2 is pink multiplied by pink. Glowing with a naturally derived color, this taste bud oasis is crafted
Other Specialty Cider/Perry
6.0% ABV
Belching Beaver Swerve City IPA   
Belching Beaver Brewing  ·  Oceanside, CA
Happy Hour : $6.75
A bitter, moderately strong American pale ale that uses its clean, supporting malt to showcase its hop character.
American IPA
7.2% ABV
Just Added
Black Plague 1347 IPA   
Black Plague  ·  Oceanside, CA
Happy Hour : $6.75
A bitter, moderately strong American pale ale that uses its clean, supporting malt to showcase its hop character.
American IPA
7.1% ABV  ·  58 IBU
Burning Beard Dankness Visible   
Burning Beard Brewing Co.  ·  El Cajon, CA
Happy Hour : $6.75
A bitter, moderately strong American pale ale that uses its clean, supporting malt to showcase its hop character.
American IPA
7.0% ABV  ·  70 IBU
Burning Beard Hopmata   
Burning Beard Brewing Co.  ·  El Cajon, CA
Pint : $6.75
A bitter, moderately strong American pale ale that uses its clean, supporting malt to showcase its hop character.
American IPA
7.0% ABV  ·  70 IBU
Coronado 21st Anniversary IIPA   
Coronado Brewing Company  ·  Coronado, CA
Pint : $7.00
An intensely hoppy pale ale with minimal malt character, designed to showcase its strong hop flavors.
Double IPA
8.0% ABV
Just Added
Coronado Beach Break   
Coronado Brewing Company  ·  Coronado, CA
Pint : $7.00
An intensely hoppy pale ale with minimal malt character, designed to showcase its strong hop flavors.
Double IPA
8.0% ABV  ·  70 IBU
Just Added
Coronado Blue Bridge Imperial Coffee Stout   
Coronado Brewing Company  ·  Coronado, CA
Happy Hour : $7.00
A bigger more robust version of our original coffee stout. This beer is sure to wake you up. With a strong aroma, and bold coffee flavor, this Imperial Coffee Stout is rich in body, finishing delicately leaving a nice creamy mouth feel.
Imperial Stout
8.0% ABV  ·  25 IBU
Just Added
Coronado Stem To Stern Batch #1: Hoppy Red   
Coronado Brewing Company  ·  Coronado, CA
Happy Hour : $6.75
A moderate, hoppy beer with a distinct caramel malty flavor.
American Amber Ale
7.7% ABV
Fall 2 Am Bike Ride (On Nitro)   
Fall Brewing Co.  ·  San Diego, CA
Happy Hour : $6.75
Coffee stout, infused with local Dark Horse Coffee and vanilla bean.
American Stout
5.0% ABV
Fall Nuclear Strategory   
Fall Brewing Co.  ·  San Diego, CA
Tulip : $8.00
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
8.5% ABV
Firestone Walker Stickee Monkey   
Firestone Walker Brewing Company  ·  Paso Robles, CA
Tulip : $8.00
Strong and richly malty sweet with low bitterness and noticeable alcohol.
Abt/Quadrupel
12.5% ABV  ·  22 IBU
Founders KBS   
Founders Brewing Company  ·  Grand Rapids, MI
Tulip : $8.50
An imperial stout brewed with coffee and chocolate and then cave aged in bourbon barrels
Imperial Stout
11.8% ABV  ·  70 IBU
Founders Lizard Of Koz   
Founders Brewing Company  ·  Grand Rapids, MI
Tulip : $7.00
Fresh Michigan blueberries, rich chocolate and vanilla aged in bourbon barrels to round out those beautiful flavors.
Imperial Stout
10.5% ABV  ·  40 IBU
Founders PC Pils   
Founders Brewing Company  ·  Grand Rapids, MI
Mug Club : $6.00
Pleasantly crisp, perfectly clean and profoundly crushable, PC Pils is our take on the classic Pilsner style. Chinook, Cascade, Centennial.
German Pils
5.5% ABV  ·  45 IBU
Hangar 24 Easy Glider Session IPA   
Hangar 24 Brewery  ·  Redlands, CA
Mug Club : $6.50
The beer’s name pays homage to the pin-up art that adorned the planes of American B17 pilots during World War 2
American IPA
4.6% ABV  ·  46 IBU
Hangar 24 Orange Wheat Sour   
Hangar 24 Brewery  ·  Redlands, CA
Mug Club : $6.50
A wild-fermented beer containing funky sour flavors and a variety of aromas
Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
4.6% ABV
Karl Strauss Harv's Hootch   
Karl Strauss Brewing Company  ·  San Diego, CA
Tulip : $6.50
Triple IPA
11.3% ABV
Maui Mango Hefeweizen   
Maui Brewing Co.  ·  Kihei, HI
Mug Club : $6.50
A refreshing wheat beer that favors hoppy notes over yeast character.
American Wheat Beer
5.5% ABV  ·  13 IBU
Novo Brazil Bossa Haze   
Novo Brazil Brewing Co.  ·  Chula Vista, CA
Pint : $7.00
An intensely hoppy pale ale with minimal malt character, designed to showcase its strong hop flavors.
Double IPA
7.6% ABV  ·  60 IBU
Ommegang Pale Sour Ale   
Ommegang  ·  Cooperstown, NY
Tulip : $7.00
A wild-fermented beer containing funky sour flavors and a variety of aromas
Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
6.9% ABV  ·  9 IBU
Port Hop 15   
Port Brewing Company  ·  San Marcos, CA
Tulip : $6.50
Hop 15 has 15 different hop varieties added to the beer every 15 minutes.
Double IPA
10.0% ABV
Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA   
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company  ·  Chico, CA
Happy Hour : $6.50
Sierra Nevada and hops go hand in hand. What began as a crazy idea scribbled in a pub eventually became our newest year-round hop bomb, Torpedo Extra IPA.
American IPA
7.2% ABV  ·  65 IBU

Bottle List - 35

Acoustic Ales "Unplugged Heaven" Heaven's Hill Bourbon Barrel Aged Belgian Imperial Chocolate Milk Stout    Can  
Acoustic Ales Brewing Experiment  ·  San Diego, CA
$17.00
A varying Belgian style with fruit and spice notes and good carbonation.
Belgian Specialty Ale (Archived)
12.5% ABV
Angry Orchard Green Apple    Can  
Angry Orchard Cider Co  ·  Cincinnati, OH
$6.00
Like a dry wine with complex flavors. The apple character marries with the added fruit to create a balanced flavor.
Fruit Cider
5.0% ABV
Avery Lilikoi Kepolo    Can  
Avery Brewing  ·  Boulder, CO
$6.00
Liliko’i Kepolo “adds a tropical island flair to a spicy traditional witbier, erupting with monumental passionfruit aroma and acidity along with a sublimely succulent finish”.
Witbier
5.4% ABV  ·  10 IBU
Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin IPA   
Ballast Point Brewing Company  ·  San Diego, CA
$7.00
The tart freshness of grapefruit perfectly complements Sculpin’s citrusy hop character.
American IPA
7.0% ABV  ·  70 IBU
Ballast Point Victory at Sea   
Ballast Point Brewing Company  ·  San Diego, CA
$12.00
Victory at Sea embodies the art of masterful brewing by infusing a velvety Imperial Porter with pure vanilla flavor and specially-selected, hand roasted coffee.
American Porter
10.0% ABV  ·  60 IBU
Belching Beaver Me So Honey    Can  
Belching Beaver Brewing  ·  Oceanside, CA
$6.00
This beer is smooth with lingering tastes of honey. It is made right here in Poway from wild flowers and cloves.
Blonde Ale
5.5% ABV  ·  19 IBU
Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout   
Belching Beaver Brewing  ·  Oceanside, CA
$13.50
Our Peanut Butter Milk Stout is simply irresistible. It’s like dark chocolate Reese’s in a glass!
Sweet Stout
5.3% ABV  ·  30 IBU
Boulevard Smokestack Series - Imperial Stout 2013   
Boulevard Brewing Company  ·  Kansas City, MO
$15.00
An intensely flavored, big, dark ale. Roasty, fruity, and bittersweet, with a noticeable alcohol presence.
Russian Imperial Stout
11.8% ABV
Boulevard Tell-Tale Tart   
Boulevard Brewing Company  ·  Kansas City, MO
$6.75
The subtle acidity of Tell-Tale Tart is answered by a soft, biscuity malt character, making this a sour ale that suggests its tartness.
American Sour
6.2% ABV  ·  10 IBU
Coronado Mermaid's Red Ale   
Coronado Brewing Company  ·  Coronado, CA
$10.00
Well hopped to balance the malty sweetness, and dry-hopped with cascade for a full hop flavor and aroma.
American Amber Ale
5.7% ABV  ·  46 IBU
Deschutes/rogue/north Coast Class Of 88 Barleywine   
Deschutes Brewery  ·  Bend, OR
$11.00
A very strong ale with hop character, rich malt flavors, and prevalent alcohol with a very long finish.
American Barleywine
10.2% ABV
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron   
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery  ·  Milton, DE
12 oz : $7.00
The caramel and vanilla complexity unique to this beer comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which our brewing tanks were crafted.
American Strong Ale
12.0% ABV  ·  50 IBU
Duvel Tripel Hop   
Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat  ·  Breendonk-Puurs, Belgium
$7.25
Duvel Tripel Hop is brewed with three hop varieties and each year the third hop is changed to provide its own unique taste and aroma.
Belgian Golden Strong Ale
9.5% ABV  ·  44 IBU
Firestone Walker 2015 Velvet Merkin   
Firestone Walker Brewing Company  ·  Paso Robles, CA
$22.00
A very dark, full-bodied, roast ale with a complementary oatmeal flavor.
Oatmeal Stout
8.5% ABV  ·  33 IBU
Firestone Walker Helldorado   
Firestone Walker Brewing Company  ·  Paso Robles, CA
$22.00
vanilla, light char and amazing lavender-honey notes. Rich boozy honey liqueur character and loads of smooth sweet toasted malt to finish. The El Dorado hops dance in the background without playing a dominant role in the flavor profile.
American Barleywine
11.8% ABV  ·  25 IBU
Firestone Walker Opal   
Firestone Walker Brewing Company  ·  Paso Robles, CA
$15.50
Bringing down the Farmhouse! Our interpretation of the rustic Wallonian Saison style is a harmonious blend of rustic grains, spicy yeast and unique sauvignon blanc tones. Inviting lemon grass and gooseberry meet peppery spice and fresh grain aromas. Spicy Belgian yeast create a complex yet dry and refreshing canvas with splashes of citrus and stone fruit with a bright tropical white wine finish. Hop bitterness is assertive yet harmonious rounding out slightly tart and refreshing. 7.5% ABV. 35 IBU’s.
Saison
7.5% ABV  ·  35 IBU
Golden Road Get Up Offa That Brown    Can  
Golden Road Brewing  ·  Los Angeles, CA
$3.00
For our brown ale we’ve added trace amounts of smoked malt to build a toasty complexity, balanced by rich notes of caramel and chocolate.
American Brown Ale
5.5% ABV  ·  20 IBU
Golden Road Hefeweizen    Can  
Golden Road Brewing  ·  Los Angeles, CA
12 oz : $5.00
A refreshing German-style wheat beer with high carbonation, a fluffy mouthfeel, and a dry finish.
Weissbier
4.6% ABV  ·  15 IBU
Green Flash 2015 Cellar 3: Silva Stout   
Green Flash Brewing Co.  ·  San Diego, CA
$22.00
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
10.1% ABV  ·  45 IBU
Hangar 24 Helles Lager    Can  
Hangar 24 Brewery  ·  Redlands, CA
$5.75
A clean, malty, gold-colored German-style lager with a grainy-sweet flavor and a soft, dry finish.
Munich Helles
4.3% ABV  ·  14 IBU
Julian Hard Cider Cherry Bomb   
Julian Hard Cider  ·  Julian, CA
$11.00
Like a dry wine with complex flavors. The apple character marries with the added fruit to create a balanced flavor.
Fruit Cider
7.0% ABV
King Harbor Swirly   
King Harbor Brewing  ·  Redondo Beach, CA
$11.00
American Brown ale brewed with vanilla, lactose and a hint of coffee. Like a swirled ice cream cone in beer form.
American Brown Ale
4.7% ABV
Krombacher Weizen Alkoholfrei   
Krombacher Brauerei  ·  Kreuztal, Germany
$5.00
A harmonious marriage of ingredients, processes and beer.
Specialty Beer
Modern Times Lost Horizon   
Modern Times Beer  ·  San Diego, CA
$13.00
An intensely hoppy pale ale with minimal malt character, designed to showcase its strong hop flavors.
Double IPA
8.5% ABV
Modern Times Mt. Remarkable   
Modern Times Beer  ·  San Diego, CA
$11.50
A highly carbonated, medium-bodied lager that is well-balanced.
International Pale Lager
5.5% ABV  ·  55 IBU
Port Older Viscosity (Bourbon Barrel-Aged)   
Port Brewing Company  ·  San Marcos, CA
$18.00
A beer that has picked up flavors and aroma from both the wood and the previous alcohol stored in the wood
Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
12.1% ABV
Port Santa's Little Helper (Bourbon Barrel-Aged)   
Port Brewing Company  ·  San Marcos, CA
$16.00
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
10.0% ABV
Russian River Supplication   
Russian River Brewing Company  ·  Santa Rosa, CA
375 ml : $16.00
Brown Ale aged in used Pinot Noir barrels w/ sour cherries, brettanomyces, lactobacillus, and pediococcus. Flavors from the cherries, Pinot Noir and oak balance each other nicely with a little funk from the brett.
Wild Specialty Beer
7.0% ABV  ·  27 IBU
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Bigfoot   
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company  ·  Chico, CA
$21.00
A very strong ale with hop character, rich malt flavors, and prevalent alcohol with a very long finish.
American Barleywine
11.6% ABV  ·  90 IBU
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Barrel-Aged Narwhal   
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company  ·  Chico, CA
$22.00
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
12.9% ABV  ·  60 IBU
Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout    Can  
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company  ·  Chico, CA
$22.00
his malt-forward monster is bold – with notes of baker’s cocoa, molasses, and dark roasted coffee. This massive imperial stout is incredibly complex, rich, and intense.
Imperial Stout
10.2% ABV  ·  60 IBU
Ska Rudie Session IPA    Can  
Ska Brewing Company  ·  Durango, CO
$5.75
Rudie begins with a big fruity hop aroma of pears and watermelon candy, but is relatively low in actual bitterness.
American IPA
4.5% ABV  ·  45 IBU
The Bruery Humulus Terreux   
The Bruery  ·  Placentia, CA
$15.00
A sour beer that derives some of its taste and aroma from the particular spices, herbs or vegetables
Wild Specialty Beer
5.7% ABV  ·  40 IBU
The Lost Abbey Agave Maria   
The Lost Abbey  ·  San Marcos, CA
$18.00
A strong ale with full malt and hop flavors and distinct bitterness.
American Strong Ale
13.5% ABV
The Lost Abbey Santo Ron Diego   
The Lost Abbey  ·  San Marcos, CA
$16.00
A strong ale with full malt and hop flavors and distinct bitterness.
American Strong Ale
12.5% ABV

On Deck - 11

2 Towns Ciderhouse - BrightCider   
2 Towns Ciderhouse  ·  Corvallis, OR
Radiant and balanced, BrightCider shines with Newtown Pippin apples, the pioneer variety that defined the cider palate of the Northwest.
Common Cider
6.0% ABV
Anchor Merry Christmas Happy New Year   
Anchor Brewing  ·  San Francisco, CA
A harmonious marriage of ingredients, processes and beer.
Specialty Beer
5.5% ABV  ·  28 IBU
Coronado Stupid Stout   
Coronado Brewing Company  ·  Coronado, CA
This deep, dark, viscous brew stands up to other imperial stouts as well as the test of time, delivering defined, robust, chocolaty notes with a hint of hop freshness. As this beer ages, those big flavors mellow, leaving behind a smooth, balanced sipper. Its the perfect beer to warm up with as winter cold sets in, or as a part of a vertical tasting session many years from now.
Imperial Stout
9.0% ABV  ·  70 IBU
Firestone Walker 18th Anniversary   
Firestone Walker Brewing Company  ·  Paso Robles, CA
A beer that has picked up flavors and aroma from both the wood and the previous alcohol stored in the wood
Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
13.0% ABV  ·  80 IBU
Iron Fist Dark Days   
Iron Fist Brewing Co  ·  Vista, CA
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
14.3% ABV  ·  45 IBU
Karl Strauss 25th Anniversary Dopple Bock   
Karl Strauss Brewing Company  ·  San Diego, CA
A noticeably strong, rich, and very malty German-style lager.
Doppelbock
9.5% ABV
Port Board Meeting Brown Ale   
Port Brewing Company  ·  San Marcos, CA
Board Meeting offers the malty richness and assertive hop presence that you expect in an American brown ale, but enhanced with pronounced roasted coffee and bitter chocolate aromas and flavors
American Brown Ale
8.5% ABV
Port Santa's Little Helper (Bourbon Barrel-Aged)   
Port Brewing Company  ·  San Marcos, CA
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
10.0% ABV
Rough Draft Barrel-aged Freudian Sip   
Rough Draft Brewing Company  ·  San Diego, CA
A noticeably strong beer tilted towards malty sweetness that is best drunk by a warm fire on a cold winter’s night.
Old Ale
10.0% ABV  ·  65 IBU
Stone Master Of Disguise   
Stone Brewing Co.  ·  Escondido, CA
A big, intensely flavored dark ale that ends with a warming, bittersweet finish.
Imperial Stout
9.7% ABV  ·  55 IBU
The Bruery 6 Geese-a-laying   
The Bruery  ·  Placentia, CA
Brewed with cape gooseberries, this malty ale displays notes of plums, dark cherry and bright, citrus-like flavors from the namesake berries
Belgian Dark Strong Ale
11.5% ABV  ·  25 IBU