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

On tap at Toronado for Barley Wine Festival. Pours a clear copper with an off-white head. Aroma of sweet biscuit, slight dark fruit, and slight spice hops. Full flavo(u)red bread, cracker and biscuit with slight floral and spice hops. Well rounded throughout finishes slightly viscous and with malts lingering long. Some dark fruits play in the background as well.

Tried from Draft on 17 Feb 2013 at 20:19


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

Keg at CBC - Clerkenwell, London. Pours clear, rich gold with a medium, white foam head. Big caramel and bread nose. Medium to strong sweet flavor, some pine, more caramel. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Fairly sticky finish, some resinous pine, ripe citrus. Some mild grainy malts. A decent DIPA,

Tried on 13 Jan 2013 at 03:13


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

Bottle. Pours cloudy amber-yellow with a small off-white head that dissipates with nice lacing. Aroma is a touch of funk, lemon, wood, honey, peach. Flavor is the same, lightly sweet, light funk. Quite woody with an almost smoky near finish. Medium body, silky in the mouth. Alcoholic warming dry finish. Quite a nice beer, actually.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Dec 2012 at 23:05


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

Bottle @ Stephen’s house. Big thanks to Armin / arminjewell for sharing. Pours a dark brown/black appearance with a small brown head. Roasty dark chocolate, big cocoa, light coffee, vanilla aroma. Big chocolate, caramel, a bit woody, milk chocolate sweet flavor. Pretty tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Dec 2012 at 15:38


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

22oz bomber pours deep gold with a slight haze and short lived white head of foam. The aroma offers up grainy malts to sort of bready and then kind of acidic lime. The taste delivers some lime citrus, mild acidity and the getting modestly dry with some tart notes. It ends fairly dry and refreshing.

Tried on 01 Dec 2012 at 06:56


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pours an amber-deep good with small white head. Aroma of citrus and biscuit cookie. Taste is citrus hops and graham cracker. Slight spicy bite at the end. Bitterness is present yet restrained.

Tried on 30 Nov 2012 at 22:38


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Deep red colour. Great mix of sharp tropical fruit IPA flavours and red berry sweetness.

Tried on 20 Nov 2012 at 13:59


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bomber shared by D! Pours a clear yellow color with a large white head. A light nose of lemons and oranges. A smooth very light flavor with lemons, light earthy grains. Decent.

Tried on 15 Nov 2012 at 15:17


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

Small bottle bought in Boise. Pours a cloudy orange color with a large white head. A big nose of lemons, pepper and white wine. The flavor is a light, easy brew with white wine, pepper, honey. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2012 at 15:16


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared by Dallas
Appearance: Clear golden with a small white head, no lacing
Aroma and flavors of mild tartness, doughy, grain with a dry finish
Decent, mild.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2012 at 15:35