Solemn Oath Brewery

Microbrewery in Naperville, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Solemn Oath's Still Life

Established in 2012

Contact
1661 Quincy Ave, #179, Naperville, IL, 60540, United States
+1(630) 995-3062
hello@solemnoathbrewery.com
Description
Solemn Oath was born high above the great expanse of the American West. John Barley sketched out a plan on a return flight from visiting his brother Joe in San Diego. On that trip, the Barley brothers hosted a craft beer tasting party for a couple dozen of their friends. It was on. John put together a full business plan after soliciting examples from breweries he admired across the country and started interviewing brewers. It took one meeting with Tim Marshall, then of Rock Bottom – Lombard, to know he would man the brewhouse. His experience with Belgian-style beers and barrel aging made him the perfect fit for Solemn Oath. Together, Tim and John scouted locations in Chicagoland. They were looking for a space in the middle of a large population with an underdeveloped local craft beer supply. Naperville was the perfect location. Solemn Oath leased space in one of the city’s only light industrial parks and worked with the city council to craft a new liquor classification that would allow Solemn Oath to operate as a production brewery with an on-site taproom. As he placed tank orders and Tim signed hop contracts, John convinced Joe to move back to Chicago to be part of the team. Over the first half of 2012, the team built out the space and in April installed a fifteen-barrel Premier Stainless three-vessel system along with 105 barrels of fermentation, affording Solemn Oath a production capacity of about 2,000 barrels per year. (A barrel is thirty-one gallons.) Before our first brew day on April twenty-first, we signed on with craft pioneers Windy City Distribution and launched with three beers during Chicago Craft Beer Week 2012, including the opening of our Naperville taproom. Our first expansion was completed in January 2013, adding sixty additional barrels of fermentation capacity, bringing our annual volume capacity to about 3,200 barrels. Along the way we’ve made great friends, like Jourdon Gullett, a trained muralist who does all of our illustration work. A mutant baby? Monsters mid-ticklefight? A bad garage-punk band? He’s got a vision for it. And Michael Kiser, a professional photographer in Chicago who tells stories about the world of beer and the beer of the world on his blog, Good Beer Hunting. Without his photographs, this website wouldn’t be half as sexy as it is. Speaking of this website, how about the talented and creative people at Nelson Cash? Killed it. We have other friends we would name, but we wouldn’t want to stroke Greta de Parry’s ego. Of course, we couldn’t do any of this without our distributor and the sales reps who ruin any chance of us getting any work done on Friday afternoons. Or the beer buyers, managers, and owners at the most badass bars and restaurants in Chicagoland. And you. That’s right, you, the person who just read 493 words to this point because you want to find out what we’re all about. Thank you. You’re kind of our story, too. We’ll be damned if we know how it all turns out.
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deyholla

7
deyholla (22727) reviewed Solemn Gardens from Solemn Oath Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a hazy orange gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has sweet citrus and light tropical fruits with sweet grains backing. Flavor has earthy citrus and grass with a sweet grain backbone.

Tried from Draft on 15 May 2022 at 01:21

Drake

6.5
Drake (22934) reviewed Be All Hazy Pale from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 ounce can from Woodman’s Appleton, 10/30/21. Hazy orange large frothy tan head, good retention. Aroma of mango, tropical fruit. Taste is cactus, grapefruit, tropical fruit. Juicy. Decent.

Tried from Can on 19 Nov 2021 at 04:05

deyholla

7.1
deyholla (22727) reviewed Fast Action Hero from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can shared by Adam, thanks! Pours a hazy yellowish orange with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma of has dank citrus and some sweet grains with a bit of papaya underlying. Flavor has slightly bitter citrus and papaya with a bit of mango and sweet grains backing.

Tried from Can on 29 Aug 2021 at 03:34

ericsc

8.4
ericsc (2969) ticked Be All from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago

Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2021 at 17:56

EishockeyGreg57
EishockeyGreg57 (9697) ticked To Each Other from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago

Crushed as I closed the store. Time to get home to tend to The Ghost and watch 🇧🇷🇦🇷 Dí Maria with a sumptuous finish.

Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2021 at 21:25

deyholla

7.1
deyholla (22727) reviewed Motorcycle Sandals from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can shared by Adam, thanks! Pours a hazy yellow gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has grass and slightly bitter citrus rind with light pine underlying. Flavor has a combination of light pine, light grass and a bit of tropical fruits.

Tried from Can on 09 May 2021 at 03:56

deyholla

7.9
deyholla (22727) reviewed Things We Don’t Say from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can shared by Adam, thanks! Pours a near clear orange gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges slowly. Aroma has dank citrus with a bit of pine underlying and a hint of sweet grass. Flavor has a nice bitter citrus with a light dankness and a grain cackling.

Tried from Can on 09 May 2021 at 03:09

deyholla

6.8
deyholla (22727) reviewed Dank Lloyd Wright - Grape Ape from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can shared by Adam, thanks! Pours a clear deep amber with a white head that dissipates to the edges slowly. Aroma has some pine bitterness with a bit of earthy grass and a hint of dry grape. Flavor is mainly pine and dry grass notes with a hint of grape underlying.

Tried from Can on 08 May 2021 at 03:37

patrick767

6.8
patrick767 (7169) reviewed Snaggletooth Bandana from Solemn Oath Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy orange pour with a fruity, juicy hop aroma. The hop led flavor is of tropical fruit, some resin, mild bitterness, and malty sweetness. It’s medium bodied. To me it drinks like a hazy/New England style. Anyway, it’s pretty good.

Tried on 13 Mar 2021 at 06:14

Drake

7
Drake (22934) reviewed UnClouded from Solemn Oath Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pint can from Woodman's Menomonee Falls, 1/20/21. #6 in my Inauguration Day ticks! This one chosen because when Joe and Kamala took a Solemn Oath, our future became unclouded. At least to an extent. It just sucks this is apparently an IL tick and not a WI tick. Hazy copper medium white head, good retention. Aroma of tangerine and pale malt. Taste is leafy hops, tangerine, pale malt. Medium bodied.

Tried from Can on 21 Jan 2021 at 01:02

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