Mason Ale Works
Microbrewery
in
San Marcos,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2015
Contact
255 Redel Rd., San Marcos, CA, 92078, United States
Subsidiaries
Description
We started a Brewery as a means to contribute to a truly artisan craft. We believe in friendship before finance and are happy to help others in this industry as we have been helped by those who came before us. We are bold believers in the fact that a well made beer can cool your spirit and warm your soul.
Our flagship Mason Ale Works production brewery opened in 2017 at our San Marcos Urge Common House Location. Here JJ “Sweet Meat” Jimenez, our Director of Brewing Operations, helms the wheel. All of our can releases like our popular Jambi West Coast IPA and Respeto Mexican Lager are brewed and canned in these four walls. We also crank out an extensive line-up of one-off releases out of here.
Our flagship Mason Ale Works production brewery opened in 2017 at our San Marcos Urge Common House Location. Here JJ “Sweet Meat” Jimenez, our Director of Brewing Operations, helms the wheel. All of our can releases like our popular Jambi West Coast IPA and Respeto Mexican Lager are brewed and canned in these four walls. We also crank out an extensive line-up of one-off releases out of here.
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Super clear and very crisp golden coloured body wtih a very nice three centimetre tall perfectly microfoamed off-white head that's above a very effervescent bubbly body. Aroma of biscuits, light yeast and bread, some lemons, stone fruits and a bit of floral notes, too. Light-bodied; Fairly sweet, candy-like fruity flavour up front with some caster sugar as well and a big hit of lemons and kumquaty/tangeriney notes, that end with a slight mineraly and rustic malt flavour that adds tot he bitterness, and takes away from the relative easy-drinking nature. Aftertaste is fairly deep, with a lot of biscuity and sort of grainy malts, some softer lemons and stone fruit notes and a funkiness from some aspartame/saccharin and fake sugar notes. Overall, the hops do hit, especially up front, but this really is about the minerealy and more pungent malts and citrus fruits than the hops. Good to try, but not as good as I was hoping for. Not really recommended unless you like some mineraly and stone fruity beers.The Beer Cave @ Bob's Sunoco in Callaway, Maryland on 10-May-2022 for US$4,80 sampled at my house here in Washington on 20-May-2022.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2023
at 04:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown. Thick head. Vanilla chocolate aroma comes across a bit artificial. Rich, medium body but lots of sugars. The vanilla is definitely blending in with the chocolate here for an interesting character. Not actually getting much orange, but I'm okay with that.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2023
at 05:23
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Can, 0.473l. Aroma of citrus, flowers, resin and pine. Pours hazy golden color with medium sized soapy white head and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts juicy tropical and stone fruity and biscuity, follows by resin, vanilla and lactose, mouthfeel is smooth and warm, while finish is average bitter. Full body, oily texture and lively carbonation in palate.Far from nonsense…
Tried
from Can
on 16 Aug 2023
at 21:24
6/10
Lemon gold color pour. Orange zest and tropical fruit flavor. Heavy carbonated and medium bodied.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2023
at 01:38
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Noticeable DMS, moss, lemongrass. Cloudy pale orange, medium billowy head. Guava, DMS, orange peel. Full body, easy carbonation, warm, somewhat resinous.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2023
at 20:56
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
gift from kapusil - many thanks, my friend! opalescent orange colour, half inch of dense ecru-ish white head; aroma of pine resiny, caramel, raisins, grape seeds, grapefruity, marmalade and some dill-like notes; gretly balanced intensive hoppy bitterness and syrupy sweetness with the same notes as can be felt in the aroma; really great IIPA!
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2023
at 18:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown, no head. Soft body, quite honeyish, touch of burnt sugars, a bit of alcohol. There's a deep fruitiness, which is not bad. The mead barrel lends an interesting character to this.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2023
at 07:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
16oz @ Phill's. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: sweet, some roasted malts and dark fruits, quite thick. Taste: kinda a weird mix of roasted imperial stout and mead. Overall: this mix doesn't work well definitely. It's harsh, abrasive, and unbalanced.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2023
at 07:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from 473mL can. Dark brown with small beige head. Boozy below average mead character, dried fruit, lacks complexity, thin. Underwhelming.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2023
at 07:06
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
16 oz. can, pours a deep dark brown / near-black with a small tan head. Aroma is quite boozy, with dark dried fruits, harsh mead notes, and some dark sugars — lacking cohesion. Flavour is very harsh and lacking sophistication, with dark dried fruits, booze, and harsh mead notes. Man, this is messy as hell. None of the elements are particularly pleasant and they work even less well together. Haphazard beer.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2023
at 07:02