Oscura

Oscura is a beer from Craft Coast, an Oceanside, California brewery that pairs its own beer with Baja style tacos.

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Brewery Description

We put a spin on our most popular beer, Agua Baja, and created Oscura, a negra Mexican lager.

Source: Untappd (hand-read citation): Oscura

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

The product description names German lager malts, hops and yeast plus maize, but gives no hop varieties, malt brands or yeast strain. Its maize wording contains a spelling error, so the structured name is limited to the grain (Untappd (hand-read citation): Oscura).

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline page lists no style named International Dark Lager; its nearest entries are European-Style Dark Lager (4.8 to 5.3 percent ABV, 20 to 35 IBU, chocolate and roast malt balancing sweetness and hop bitterness) and American-Style Dark Lager (4.1 to 5.6 percent ABV, 14 to 24 IBU). The selected ABV is within the American-style comparison and above the European-style comparison; neither comparison determines the competition batch.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Craft Coast is in Oceanside, CA.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Untappd.

Related

• Brewery: Craft Coast

Links

• Craft Coast
• Craft Coast: menu
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines
• Untappd (hand-read citation): Oscura

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Water, Process. Checked craftcoast.co, craftcoast.co, untappd.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
• Not Found: IBU. Checked craftcoast.co, craftcoast.co, untappd.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.

Research Notes

• First pass: The brewery home page has no beer listings, and its menu page is published only as an image that could not be read.
• First pass: The Toast take-out page for the Oceanside location returned HTTP 403.
• First pass: The web search budget for this run ran out before a beer-specific search for Oscura could be made; earlier guesses at other brewery domains did not resolve.
• First pass: No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
• First pass: Researched 2026-10-13.
• Second pass 2026-10-13: The matching Untappd page supplies the selected strength and ingredient description. Search excerpts from BeerAdvocate and a brewer interview showed 5%, but the interview returned HTTP 403; the discrepancy is unresolved and the Untappd value is not claimed as a competition-batch measurement.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: Additional hop, IBU and brewery-domain searches found no verified new specification or brewery beer page. Previously documented pages and the inaccessible interview were not fetched again.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the description on file comes from Untappd and is not extended.