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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7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Can at Bratislavka tasting. Hoppy fruity aroma and taste, tropical fruit, light to medium bitter, light sweet. Medium to full body, malty fruity bitter sweet finish. Good.
Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2025 at 19:32

6.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 7
Hazy gold pour. Thin foam around the rim. Scattered lace. Sweet flavor of grapefruit juice and hops. Light bodied and light carbonation
Tried from Can from Midtowne Market on 07 Oct 2025 at 23:44

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Grapefruit and honeysuckle nose. Cloudy amber, medium sticky head. Medium body, creamy, easy carbonation. Well rounded, delicious.
Tried from Can from Midtowne Market on 07 Oct 2025 at 21:53

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
0.473l can. Aroma of raspberry, vanilla and biscuit. Pours dark crimson color with thin soapy pinkish head and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts with overly sweet and sour raspberries with chocolate note, following is citrusy, floral and vanilla-like with smooth, mild spicy and warm mouthfeel. Full body, thick texture and soft carbonation in palate. In loving memory of Patricia Routledge…
Tried from Can from Beer Republic on 07 Oct 2025 at 15:58

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft. Hazy golden beer with a cream head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and caramel flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light pine linger with caramel.
Tried on 07 Oct 2025 at 14:26

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7
Dumb Crayola art caught my eye at Total Wine in Vegas on a work trip. Looked at the stamped date & holy shit, it's super fresh. Drank three of these back at the hotel but took one home to rate & completely forgot about it for like five months.

Pint glass at home. This can isn't stamped. Pale honey, slight protien haze, stiff n sticky bleached head.
Savory dried soup herbal & lemon nose with some sticky floral as it warms.
Herbal, lots of dried basil with a secondary bittersweet orange & white grapefruit pith. The pith lingers quite a bit. Slight plain Cheerio malt & a some off-putting soap on the tail. Basil comes back on the burps, I'm indifferent to it.
Carbonation is a little too soft. Mostly dry with some lingering cereal. Body is thin with some likable astringency on the follow-through.

Kinda good.
Tried from Total Wine & More - Las Vegas (Summerlin), NV on 26 Sep 2025 at 20:07

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
0.473l can. Aroma is tropical fruity, citrusy and piney with melon note. Pours clear golden color with large soapy off-white head, good lacing and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts medium sweet malty and refreshing tropical fruity, following is herbal, piney and resinous, mouthfeel is smooth, while finish is heavy bitter. Full body, oily texture and average carbonation in palate. Solid Mason’s foundation…
Tried from Can from Beer Republic on 18 Aug 2025 at 18:08

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Canned - vanilla oak bourbon, hoppy bitter finish with burn
Tried on 16 Aug 2025 at 00:23

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
473mL can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of rich dark chocolate, vanilla beans, bourbon barrels, and plenty of dark sugar. Flavour is very rich, with intense chocolate, vanilla, big bourbon barrels, some spicy whiskey, and some booze. Deep, rich chocolate, heavy bourbon barrels, and sugars that are complemented by the booze. Excellent.
Tried from Can from Chuck's Hop Shop - Greenwood on 27 Jul 2025 at 06:45

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
0.473l can. Aroma of pineapple, passion fruit, citrus and pine. Pours hazy golden color with medium sized soapy white head, good lacing and average sparkling appearance. Taste starts juicy tropical fruity and floral,
following is sweet malty and medicinal, mouthfeel is smooth and warm, while finish is moderate bitter. Full body, oily texture and lively carbonation in palate. Hoppy bouncer…
Tried from Can from Beer Republic on 25 Jul 2025 at 16:24