Heretic Brewery and Distillery - Fairfield, California

Liann Amagan

Brewery with really good pizza located in Fairfield, CA just outside of Travis Air Force base. They have indoor and some outdoor seating and they project sports games too. People rave about their pizzas which are so good fresh and they also have a full bar here too, not just beer, wine, and cider. I was pretty surprised that they had a full bar which means they have some really good cocktails too! Service is great and all of the workers are very knowledgeable. You can order takeout too. Great spot for get together for the entire family. Parking can get kind of tight, there are some lots and street parking.

Alvin Convento

Great place to eat and have beer. Open seating and you order everything at the bar. Staff is great and food came out in a timely manner. I’m a stout/porter person so my go to is the Chocolate Hazelnut Porter. For food, we had the Lonnie Cheeseburger with fries and Buffalo Wings. Food was good. They have pizzas which we plan to try next time.

Jerry Zimmerman

This brewery just keeps getting better. A big selection of delicious beers, hard spirits and cocktails on tap with plenty of seating and big screens. The food trucks are replaced with their own kitchen including a great looking pizza. Definitely a place worth going back to.

Stephi Clark

We do love Heretic just not the new menu.
This review is mainly the new menu cause everything else is still awesome.
The staff are all wonderful!!
It is still incredibly hot inside but we weren't melting. The poor man a few tabes over was though.
Back to the new menu. It's just alright.
It is smaller as to not "overwhelm the customers with too many choices". However doing so they got rid of some great items.
The food is nothing to make a special trip to Heretic for. You go for the beer and the food is just convenient to have while there.

Our first complaint is there is NO Kids Menu, like not at all. Their reasoning is they don't want to "overwhelm customers with too many options". We were told they are not planning on adding one, instead they are planning on adding cheese pizza and they said the burgers are smaller now, so the kids can choose between a $20 pizza or a burger, they think that's enough of a choice for children. I will say for some maybe, but no, not for most. Also there is not a plain cheese pizza (I just guesstimated what a price for it would be) on the menu and there are no plain burgers. Most kids won't want caramelized onions and magic sauce on their burger. Our kids love the mini corndogs and would get excited when we would go to Heretic because they wanted them, sadly they are no more.

As stated above they told us the burgers are smaller. The menu doesn't say how big they are or what kind of bun it comes on, no sides listed (again the reasoning is they don't want to "overwhelm the customers". Unfortunately it make it so much harder for the employees because now they have to answer many questions about each item to every patron that orders food, instead of them just reading it on a menu and being "overwhelmed") and it only lists American cheese on all the burgers except the wicked, that one has pepper jack. So are there no longer options? They used to have cheddar and provolone. My guess is they don't want to overwhelm us with too many cheese choices.
They got rid of the buffalo chicken wrap which was my favorite.
They added pizza to the menu. We got a pepperoni and an outside voice. They were alright. Our daughter got the new fried chicken sandwich. It looked delicious however she said the bun was soggy and the chicken was bland. She liked the honey-jalapeño slaw but not on the sandwich she thought it would taste much better on tacos though.
They got rid of so many of our favorites and we are sad about this change.
They no longer have: chicken strips, nachos, bang bang shrimp tacos, birria tacos, the chicken wraps (grilled and buffalo) sweet potato fries, mini corndogs, grilled cheese or churros
They do have as a side to burgers, but not listed on the menu, fries and tots.
So yeah we are not excited about this new change but the beer is good!

G G

Wow Come here every year when sent to this area for work, talked about those bang bang Shrimp tacos all year to only get here today and they discontinued them? and took half the menu away!! Ugh decided to try it anyway ordered a fried chicken sandwich and a salad was horrible left it there didn't even eat it so bad was such a great place to eat but went from a 10 to a -10 super fast. We will never be back will have to find something else that is good. As you see in my picture chicken sandwich was hard rubber and not fried and salad was from a bag and dry super disappointed NEVER AGAIN ?

Big Mike

Been meaning to stop here for a while, pleasant surprise. On the food side, that may have been the best roasted brussel sprouts ever, I'll be working way through the menu next time I'm passing by on 80. On the distillery side, I'm not much for the wide assortment of flavored gins vodkas whiskeys and rum, and it's usually a bad sign when a distillery leans heavily into flavors. So I didn't taste those and can't speak for them, although they seem popular. We'll surprise, their classic whiskeys and gins are very nice indeed! I'm taking home a 4 year malt rye, and samplers of a gin and a bourbon, affordable and good. Highly recommend for a lunch or dinner stop when whisking down the 80.

Sonia Garcia

Second time coming here. Food was so good this time around too. Got the chicken wrap with sweet potato fries, and my mom got the Wicked Joan burger with regular fries. Staff was nice too!

Linda Ramirez

We have been coming here since the beginning and we enjoyed it every time. We have had 5 HS graduation dinners here, countless days and nights after softball tournaments with family and friends.
Amber is always so amazing when we come in. Between awesome service and helping our kids host bake sales out front she is beyond the best. All of the staff treats us like family and we love coming in.
So if you are around Fairfield and looking for some good food and drinks and you’re with the family come in!
Date night they got you!
You have a sweet pup bring them in!
Thanks Heretic for being Awesome!