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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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Cloudy yellow gold with a huge fluffy head that lingered and left good lacing. sweet and tangy with leafy and piney hops followed by tropical fruit and booziness. Long finish. Medium body.
Tried on 31 Aug 2021 at 00:06

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pour is a clear orange with a large white head. Aroma is some old school grapefruit hops. Flavor is is again lod scholl grapefruit hops with a neutral dry chalky malt. Kind of a throwback to pale ales of old. Sierra Nevada pale ale clone here.
Tried on 17 Jul 2021 at 19:55

7.5/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Pine, grapefruit peel, biscuit malt, and orange aroma. Hazy medium yellow with moderate white head. Moderately sweet citrus, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter grapefruit peel and pine flavor. Good body.
Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2021 at 01:58

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pour is a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma is a mild toasted malt. Flavor is a lot better with the malt more of a charred than lightly toasted. Finish is clean and gone in a second. Didn't think this one would offer much but I was pleasantly surprised with the malty flavor.
Tried on 04 Mar 2021 at 00:44

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pour is motor oil thick black with a large foamy tan head. Aroma is sweet cocoa with some molasses and coconut. Flavor is a decent roasted malt, dark bitter bakers chocolate and some coconut. Hints of alcohol linger everywhere. This was a decent Impy stout. Plenty of heavy roasted malt and chocolate. Did not get much coffee or maple syrup but the alcohol is here in spades.
Tried on 12 Sep 2020 at 23:13

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Huge grapefruit and tangerine. Bursting with fruit flavour. Good malt backbone. Not exactly the bad type of plague if all their beer is like this. Orange amber pour with decent head. Very bitter end. Can.
Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2020 at 19:32

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Interesting, a fairly classical West Coast IPA sans the bitter finish, offering up mild notes of caramel and grapefruit zest, underlined by mandarin and a little peach. Wet malt funkiness becomes more prominent as the pint warms, which doesn't couple all that well with the modest pine bitterness on the back end, creating a somewhat cloy vein in the fade. Not quite Pro Skater 5, but not quite Pro Skater 2, either.
Tried on 31 May 2020 at 00:14

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light summer fruit favor with malt. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light summer fruit linger with light sweet malt.
Tried from Can on 15 May 2020 at 20:56

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can. Amber beer with an off-white head. Light grapefruit aroma with light summer fruit. Grapefruit and light pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light pine linger.
Tried from Can on 25 Apr 2020 at 18:48

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can. Hazy amber beer with a cream head. orange and tropical fruit aroma. orange and light tropical fruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. orange and light tropical fruit linger.
Tried from Can on 25 Apr 2020 at 18:36