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
Mason Ale Works owns 1 brewery:
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.

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can, 0.473l. Aroma of chocolate, nuts, roasted malt, vanilla and dried fruit. Pours almost black color with thin creamy light brown head and sparkling appearance. Taste starts with medium sweet and rich roasted malt and coffee, follows by dried fruit, herbs, nuts and ash, mouthfeel is rather dry, while finish is mild bitter. Medium to full body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. Naughty by nature…

Tried from Can on 19 Jun 2023 at 23:29


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

0.47l can. Slightly hazy orange body with a thing white head. Caramel and raisins both in the aroma and the taste with orange zest, mango, grapefruit, grape seed and even a touch of berries. Bold hop presence for sure both in flavor and bitterness. Thicker than average body long lasting bitterness after the sip. Nice West Coast IPA. Not sure why brewers tend to avoid thisbstyle nowadays. It's cool and this beer is a nice example of it.

Tried from Can on 18 Jun 2023 at 18:34


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

0.47l can. Black body with visible floating sediments and a quickly disappearing head. Aroma and taste of coffee, cocoa, dark choclate, nutmeg, caramel and some booze. Not a lot from the coconut. Strong and sweet beer. Nice one.

Tried from Can on 16 Jun 2023 at 21:52


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

0.47l can. Very hazy yellow body with a lasting white head. Based on the used hops I expected mostly tropical fruits, but there is not much of that. Honey and oats, stone fruits, pears, pine and grassy hops show up both in the aroma and the taste. The alcohol is well hidden. Nice balanced brew.

Tried from Can on 13 Jun 2023 at 19:16


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can: Poured an unclear golden with a white frothy head. Aroma is hoppy, citrus, dankness. Taste is very bitter hops, grapefruit, citrus, grassy, lively through finish.

Tried from Can on 20 May 2023 at 03:00


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

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Tried from Can on 11 May 2023 at 20:18


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at SHIG place tasting, thanks to SHIG, 15/04/23. Moderately hazed golden orange with a decent just off white cap that thins to a swirl. Nose is bitter orange, pine needle, grass, ripe melon, dank strokes, grapefruit. Taste comprises orange pith, pine resin, dank spike, grass, grapefruit, mango flesh, raw pineapple. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with juicy come resinous hop bitterness. Solid punchy TIPA.

Tried from Can on 16 Apr 2023 at 03:36


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can shared by Fergus: Poured an unclear golden with a white head. Aroma is hops bouquet, lively in the nose, fruit, citrus, grapefruit, mango. Taste is hoppy bitter forward, very fresh, citrus, grapefruit, mango, very lively finish.

Tried from Can on 16 Apr 2023 at 03:35


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can shared at shigs place in Newport news. A mostly clear golden yellow coloured pour with a lasting white froth. Aroma is semi sweet, semi crisp bready grains, piney hop, dank, green berries, woody pine. Flavour is composed of semi sweet pine, sticky sap, piney hop, pine tips, dank citrus. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, some hop oils, lingering zesty orange and pine. Good.

Tried from Can on 16 Apr 2023 at 03:35