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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7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Taster at SBWF 2021. A bit hazy golden/orange with a white head. Pine, caramel, malt and some grapefruit. Quite bitter finish. A decent one.
Tried on 08 Oct 2021 at 13:44

7.5/10
Hazelnut and chocolate, viscous. LCI from last night
Tried on 01 Oct 2021 at 22:37

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Aroma: Sweet roasted malt with lactose and chocolate. Flavour: Sweet roasted malt with lactose and notes of nuts. Aftertaste is sweet and malty with slight bitterness. Colour: Very dark brown with a light brown head. From: Can
Tried from Can on 03 Sep 2021 at 15:52

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
16oz can from Hops & Bottles. Pours out looking like orange juice. Aroma is light orange and tangerine. Taste is also citrusy, more peel than fruit. Very subdued and easy on the palate. Nice weight and feel.
Tried from Can on 03 Sep 2021 at 01:17

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can from HavnensVin&Tobak. Pours opaque bright yellow with medium white head. Aroma is orange, mandarin, pineapple and hints of spruce. Taste is medium sweet, light bitter and light acidic. Body is light oily with fizzy carbonation. Finish is long and juicy with notes of tropical fruit and hints of spruce.
Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2021 at 22:49

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Can from HavnensVin&Tobak. Pours opaque black with huge light brown head. Aroma is rotated malt, espresso, malt whisky, vanilla, (salty) caramel, fudge and hints of cream. Taste is very sweet, faint bitter, faint acidic and faint salty. Body is milky with fizzy carbonation. Finish is long and mostly sweet with notes of caramel, fudge, coffee, vanilla, whisky and lemonish acidity from the carbonation, which is too high for my taste.
Tried from Can on 05 Aug 2021 at 21:02

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 8
very dry a bit of dry dog food and chocolate nose. Decent roastiness but lacks a bit of tartness which I like. Nice raisins and cherry character. As it warmed I liked it more. Decent stuff
Tried on 02 Aug 2021 at 07:07

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Pint can pours with a somewhat hazy gold colored body that has thin copper hues and supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma is punctuated with boozy peach, pineapple and then more booze mixed with pine and floral hops. The taste delivers a pleasing yet boozy blend of booze, peach, apricot and then some pineapple and mango. To aid the booze in this seemingly overly sweet fruitiness a firm layer of bitter floral and bitter pine hops intercede in the experience. This all adds up into being a nice boozy hoppy sipper. I like it as it provides both depth and balance.
Tried from Can on 21 Jul 2021 at 04:17

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
440ml can from the Beer Bank, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a clear, almost black colour with a big, mostly lasting, frothy tan head. The aroma is roasted malt, caramel, chocolate and vanilla. The flavour is moderate sweet, with a rich, roasty, sweet caramel, chocolate, coffee, vanilla lactose palate and a oily mouthfeel. Over medium bodied with soft carbonation. Tasty! Sweet, but not sickly.
Tried from Can at Beer Bank : Kuala Lumpur City Centre on 11 Jul 2021 at 14:14

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
473ml can, online from The Malt Miler. Pours clear orange golden with a white head, Aroma: caramel malts, pine, orange, grapefruit. Taste: Light sweet & moderate bitter, caramel malts, sticky orange marmalade, pine. Medium body with soft carbonation. Old school, took me back. All good!
Tried from Can on 13 Jun 2021 at 21:21