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.
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank, pours a hazy dark amber with a medium beige head. Aroma brings out caramel malt, with subdued resinous hops and light earth. Flavour reveals a nice mix of resinous hops and caramel bready malt. Resinous bitter hop oils on the finish, with a fat caramel malt backbone. Nicely done, though a little lacking in cohesion.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2018
at 17:27
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out tart berries, lacto and yogurt. Flavour is along the same lines, with lots of tart berries, lacto and medium acidity. Tart and acidic finish. Okay Berliner.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2018
at 17:26
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma smells like nacho meat, light salt and citrus. Flavour is along the same lines, with lightly tart citrus and ground nacho meat. Not very salty, just tart and meaty on the finish. It's okay.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2018
at 17:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out earthy coffee notes upfront, with light roast. Flavour is fairly earthy on the coffee notes, with light roast and earthy roasted espresso beans. Alcohol isn't apparent, and this drinks smoothly. A little too earthy in the coffee department, but it's well done.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2018
at 17:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out rich roasted malt, espresso and dark cocoa. Flavour is very rich and roasty, with espresso and rich roasted malt. Rather bitter but pleasantly so. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2018
at 17:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour looks like honey with a very small head. Aroma is a decent green apple hop with some honey malt. Flavor is more of a perfume hop with a bit of sour apple. I guess there is no bitterness here but I can detect a tartness coming from parts unknown. It's an ok beer and I agree with one of the raters below that this is kind of flat. A little more carbonation would give this a bit more body and bring out the hop flavor a bit more.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2018
at 01:32
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Can. Pours slightly hazy amber medium creamy white head, dissipates slowly, nice lacing. Aroma is light overall, notes of grains, grass, pine, caramel and a touch of herbal tea. Flavor is light plus sweet, very light bitter. Odd and a bit soapy. Medium body.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2018
at 07:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
RBWG 2018 at Bottlecraft. Black color beige head. Aroma of coconut suntan lotion. Taste is boozy coconut and dark chocolate with bourbon
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2018
at 05:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
RBWG 2018 at Bottlecraft. Black color brown head. Nutty coffee aroma. Taste is nuts and dark chocolate
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2018
at 05:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
RBWG 2018 at Bottlecraft. Black color brown head. Burnt espresso aroma. Taste is earthy fruity coffee
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2018
at 05:33