Heretic Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Fairfield, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Heretic Brewing Company

Established in 2011

Contact
1052 Horizon Drive, Fairfield, CA, 94533, United States
Description
It all started with a neighbor sharing a homemade beer. Liz saw how excited Jamil was and bought him a Mr. Beer kit for Christmas. Jamil became obsessed with brewing the perfect beer and became a homebrew legend in the process by winning a first-place medal in every known beer, mead, and cider style category. Eventually, his passion to brew was too strong and Jamil and Liz decided to take the plunge and open Heretic Brewing Company.

We started by sharing a building with another brewery in 2011, but we always brewed our beer ourselves. Within the first six months we realized there wasn’t enough space for two breweries in one building, so we began the search for a new place. By 2013, we had built a new, modern brewery in the wonderful city of Fairfield, California and moved all our operations there, including our new distillery.

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Part of the 1000  at AQ Bevolution’s Event at Kamikaze 6.2% A dark cola brown with a beige head & a sour fruity aroma with tart cherry notes. The taste is much mellowed than expected, very woodsy-vanilla, oak-a definite barrel quality to it.  A cherry tartness first, then oak+barrel flavors then a mellow sourness. Nice stuff.

Tried on 20 Sep 2013 at 17:22


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Part of the 1000  at AQ Bevolution’s Event at Kamikaze 6.8% A reddish brown color with a floral pine needle aroma that has a certain sweetness to it. A very quaffable bitter piney beer but I don’t get much from the Malts beyond some biscuity qualities. Still very very nice.

Tried on 20 Sep 2013 at 17:09


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Part of the 1000  at AQ Bevolution’s Event at Kamikaze 4.8% a slightly cloudy orange pour with a citrus, apricot & spicy rye aroma. The taste is fruity then spicy with a dry puckering bitter finish & a pleasurably lingering fruity aftertaste. I like it. Tastier in a chalice than a pint.

Tried on 20 Sep 2013 at 17:05


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

8%nice floral herbal aroma . Orange gold color. The taste is great a punch of bitterness followed by floral hop notes. It didn’t strike me as terribly complex but as you drink it you keep noticing different flavors with every other sip: grapefruit, lemon, pine, dank, etc. an impressive multi-layered IPA. Part of the 1000  at AQ Bevolution’s Event at Kamikaze. At Kamikaze I am getting much more dankness in the aroma, resin & weed... The taste is still great biscuity malts with a bitter weedness to it. Again displaying the difference in glassware from a lager glass to a chalice. 

Tried on 16 Sep 2013 at 07:50


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

22oz Bottle Dark brown but clear. Slight off-white fizzy head. Roasted aroma that was a bit sweet. Some bitter spiciness as well as the IBUs. Deep malty flavors as well. fairly bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Sep 2013 at 18:59


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

On tap at Toronado, August 2013. Hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma and taste of hops, pine, grape and citrus. On the sweet side with a nice bitter finish. Fresh and really nice to drink.

Tried from Draft on 25 Aug 2013 at 02:54


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

22 oz. bottle, sent from Neillago (thanks a lot, Neil), pours a hazy orange amber with a medium off-white head. Aroma brings out strong dank hops, earthy, a little herbal notes, and just enough malt to back. Flavour destroys the palate, with intensely strong hempy, pot-like hops, more pot, and some earthy malt to back. Extremely brutal and uncompromising on the palate. Hoppy as hell, leaving a very dank finish. Excellent stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2013 at 23:56


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

Bottle 650ml @ Hotel Room, Bay Park Hotel, Monterey, CA
Pours hazy orange/amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt caramel, orange, peach and grape. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter with a long fruity and light bitter finish. Body is light to medium, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2013 at 23:20


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle, 22oz. A hazy, dark golden to amber beer with a two-finger, off-white head leaving some curtains. The aroma feels a little bit one-dimensional hop pellets-like piney. Some citrus peel and maltyness escapes the glass too though. It’s a bit thin on the palate, with a very soft carbonation. Pine cones, citrus peel and some sweetness, and of course, a nice bitterness in the flavor. Lasting bitterness, but the rest of the flavor fades quickly. Considering the ABV, it’s certainly a nice one, else it’s a bit boring. 130808

Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2013 at 23:09


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ City Beer, San Francisco, CA
Pours cloudy dark amber/brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt. caramel, alcohol, biscuit, floral and grass hops. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long warm and caramel finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonaiton is soft.

Tried on 07 Aug 2013 at 01:16