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

can. Woah - huge imperial IPA. very bitter and power packed. Pretty darn good

Tried from Can on 23 Mar 2020 at 23:28


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

Pours a clear straw from a can with lots and lots of floaties. Pome fruit aroma and flavor, bit of a grassy/herbal note as well. Pretty good. beer.

Tried from Can on 20 Mar 2020 at 02:24


7

Hoppig, beetje moutig. Gewoon prima. En de lokale Mitra gesteund in deze barre tijd.

Tried from Can on 16 Mar 2020 at 20:46


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Sample at GABF 10/05/2019, thanks to kathryneels for assistance with note-taking. Hazy orange color with a medium white head that recedes gradually to a film. Strings of lace. Aroma of herbal hop, fruit and malt. Medium body with flavors of tropical fruit, dank hops and malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a fruity hop aftertaste. Above average overall.

Tried on 11 Mar 2020 at 18:22


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

Sample at GABF 10/05/2019, thanks to kathryneels for assistance with note-taking. Hazy orange color with a medium thin white head that dissipates quickly to an outer ring. Short strings of lace. Aroma of fruit, yeast and malt. Medium body with flavors of tangerine, yeast, mild hops and malt. The finish is fruity with a citrusy aftertaste. Decent overall.

Tried on 11 Mar 2020 at 18:19


2.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1

Black & green can. A little apprehensive about this one considering the label. Smell is mild hops on top of foam. Eye is slight haze on pale with a pretty good foaming head. Taste is what else but big fat rubbery IPA mixed with pine tar and then ground up with green bitter grapefruit rinds. Bitter dregs, bitter dregs, bitter dregs, whew.

Tried from Can on 09 Mar 2020 at 19:47


8.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can. Dark ruby red body with a beige head. Aroma and taste of toffee, orange zest and pine mostly but has notes of figs, raisins and cloves too. Dangerously easy to drink. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 29 Feb 2020 at 16:16


8.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Quel dommage que cette Evil Twin, IPA possédant de bonnes qualités et attrayante jusqu'à la seconde bouche s'écrase totalement sur le final, laissant un goût d'inachevé et surtout une frustration certaine. Mais jusqu'au final, c'est un beau récital qui nous est offert avec une amertume racée, bien dosée avec 45 d'IBU et bien accompagnée par une base maltée appréciable. L'alcool à 6,8 % est également consistant et permet de bien soutenir la structure jusqu'au final bien entendu. Les arômes sont également appréciables avec un résineux et un côté herbacé développés, du pamplemousse, de la pêche, de la mangue relevés par une pointe poivrée. La robe brun acajou est également très belle, limpide, parcourue par de très fines bulles et recouvert d'une mousse blanc cassé de 3 mm. On retrouve le cocktail décrit précédemment au nez sur un joli houblon. A la dégustation, on découvre une belle amertume, racée, mais sans être agressive. L'équilibre malt/houblon est bien pensé sur une belle harmonie. La présence en bouche est même très bonne en seconde bouche, alors que l’arrière-bouche, sur une amertume élancée, herbacée avec résineux et pamplemousse donne un beau contraste. Et alors que l'on attend un final brillant…plus rien. ! Frustrant.

Tried on 26 Feb 2020 at 11:51


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Hazy pale yellow colour, moderate sized off-white head; aroma and taste of pine resins, marmalade, peach, biscuity and tropocal fruity notes; great IIPA

Tried on 15 Feb 2020 at 19:58


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

On tap at bier thirty pours out crisp clean straw topped with a white head. Nose is sweet malts citrus pine hops. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts citrus pine heavy hit.

Tried from Draft on 10 Feb 2020 at 03:16