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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7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Growler from Toby. Dark brown, black pour, flat. Strong boozy aroma. Taste also presents itself ss strong and malty.
Tried from Growler on 29 Sep 2019 at 03:32

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Growler thanks to toby pours out black topped with a ring of a tan head. Nose is sweet chocolate bourbon barrel booze vanilla wow. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate bourbon barrel booze vanilla coffee hot.
Tried from Growler on 29 Sep 2019 at 01:20

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On Tap at Bier:Thirty Foggy light pale yellow peach color. Full foamy sticky off white head Fruity tropical flavors, not particularly sour. Refreshing and easy.
Tried from Draft on 20 Sep 2019 at 18:36

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OnTap at PreFunk, Nampa Nice clear light brown. Very nice toasted malt aromas and flavors. Some cracker and biscuity character and a decent noble hop bite. A good example of a style that I don't typically love.
Tried from Draft on 19 Sep 2019 at 22:13

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From tap at Gullkorn, Hamar, with UKM people 19.09.19. Traslucent pale straw colour. Diminishing white head. Decent lacing. Aroma and taste of lemon, papaya, pineapple, passion fruit, sorrel and pilsner malt. Medium bitterness.
Tried from Draft on 19 Sep 2019 at 20:02

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Tap at iBrew Shinbashi. Dark red brown colour, small thin gold head. Taste is ultra hoppy, cat pee, quite earthy, bit of citrus. Aroma is same ultra hops, overwhelming cat pee. Bit of sweet maltiness there too, but almost totally hidden by hop hit. Bit of a sledgehammer. Not very subtle. Not horrible but not my thing. Brutish. Rerate: Jan 15. Bottle. Light spice, light resin hop. Nowhere near as full on as last time. Taste is malt dominated. Little bit of bitterness, bit more caramel, bit of black treacle. Brown bread. Good stuff. Hugely different score.
Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:02

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Tap at Bamboo. Rye weirdness, pine, bit of funk. Quite dry and bit fruity. Interesting, but not as interesting as previous rye beers I've had. Not sure I really get Heretic yet.
Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:02

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Bottle. Dry and nutty. Chocolate in the taste and hazelnuts again. Oaty aroma. Cocoa powder taste. Sweet but subtle, bit of vanilla and cream. Roasty too. Dryness is the thing. Yum
Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:02

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Tap at Grub. Spice is nice. Little bit of grapefruit and orange. Decent spiciness. Not so much else. But I'm a bit of a sucker for the habanero. Boozy.
Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:02

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16oz can pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is chocolate cake sun tan lotion coconut vanilla so sweet. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate bourbon barrel notes coconut vanilla nice.
Tried from Can on 09 Sep 2019 at 02:15