Friendly comment with variety of ales found in larder (10)
I believe the answer is:
pleasantry
'friendly comment' is the definition.
'variety of ales found in larder' is the wordplay.
'variety of' indicates an anagram.
'found in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'larder' becomes 'pantry' ('pantry' can be a synonym of 'larder').
'ales' with letters rearranged gives 'leas'.
'leas' placed into 'pantry' is 'PLEASANTRY'.
'with' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for pleasantry that I've seen before include "facetious trick" , "crack" , "Say, how are you doing" , "Sally" , "Slightly amusing remark" .)