Black Plague Brewing

Microbrewery in Oceanside, California, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2017

Closed in 2025

Contact
2550 Jason Court, Oceanside, CA, 92056, United States
Description
Determined to find a way or make one, the idea of BLACK PLAGUE was founded to create a community, relationships, and great beer. BLACK PLAGUE began as an abstract idea about bringing people together over delicious beer… but it quickly became more than that. Doors opened in June 2017 and we have won multiple awards for our beers.

BLACK PLAGUE Brewing represents the misfits, renegades, underdogs, rebels, rule-breakers, nonconformists, hustlers, D-I-Yers, and all those who strive to be better, stand out from the crowd, and follow their true passion. Our mission is to provide deliciously fresh hand-crafted beer that emboldens a community around collaboration and inspiring creative self-expression – reminding us that death is certain, so we must live life to the fullest.

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6/10
Tried on 03 Jun 2022 at 14:40

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33 cl can @ home, no BBE info. Rated on 13.04.2022. Thanks Jan & Timo! Aroma has chocolate, cocoa. Flavour has some chocolate, milky tones. Alcohol is well hidden. Easy to drink but could be more rich.
Tried from Can on 07 May 2022 at 14:00

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
12oz can picked up at Total Wine in LV. Pours clear light golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Citrus, grassy, grapefruit, pine resin, zesty. Good
Tried from Can on 22 Apr 2022 at 02:54

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours slightly translucent gold with a smallish creamy white head. Aroma is a bit of Maypo with citrus/resin. Med plus body. Flavor is citrus/resin (nice bitterness) with some malt that for me suggests Maypo. Despite that it is towards dry. Not really coming together for me.
Tried from Can on 22 Apr 2022 at 01:37

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can pour from Total Wine & More, Natick. It's a hazy golden yellow with light sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with excellent retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong grapefruit--like a Fresca. Taste is massive pink grapefruit, light citrus. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with frothy texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, not complex but good strength of massive grapefruit, especially for a pale ale.
Tried from Can on 19 Mar 2022 at 01:33

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours hazy gold with a huge foamy white head. Aroma of mango and pepper/spice. Med body or better. Flavor is tropical, yet hints at earth/dank, with mango, green melon, black pepper. Dryish and decently bitter. Nice flavor.
Tried from Can on 22 Feb 2022 at 01:46

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Nice to see a US beer here in Australia. Not many make it any more! A solid hazy with aromas of pine needles, grapefruit, mango and biscuit. The hops are very, very restrained in the mouth, with the mango and some stonefruit coming through. Starts nicely in the nose, finishes a little disappointingly when tasted.
Tried on 22 Jan 2022 at 10:19

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
474ml can at my daughters in Laguna Hills, California on 6th January 2022. Poured twice into a La Chouffe tulip glass. Huge white head on each pour, misty golden body below, sediment pieces visible through the misty body. Pineapple front to the tropical fruit aroma and taste, other citrus fruits join in the party but the semi-sweet pineapple ruled the roost throughout. Love the can artwork.
Tried from Can on 07 Jan 2022 at 02:14

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
On tap at University of Beer in Vacaville. Pours hazy orange with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Dank, pineapple, wheat, citrus peel, pine. Good
Tried from Draft on 10 Nov 2021 at 04:12

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
New brewery ticking kind of shopping trip. Cloudy orange yellow. Nose is a big bouquet of citrus. Tastes of grapefruit, tangerine, mandarin oranges. ,grassy, dough. Juicy finish. Low bitterness.
Tried on 25 Oct 2021 at 01:13