West Sixth Brewing
Regional Brewery
in
Lexington,
Kentucky,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 4 Venues
Established in 2012
Contact
Description
Founded in 2012, we’re a craft microbrewery located in a historic 100-year-old bakery called The Bread Box on West 6th Street in Lexington, Kentucky. We brew and can our beer out of that location, and it’s sold at bars, restaurants, grocery stores, and liquor stores throughout the state of Kentucky (and across the river in Cincinnati, OH). We pride ourselves on the beers that we make and the impact we have on the communities we’re a part of.
We focus our brewing talents on a wide variety of beers – we produce and can styles ranging from our flagship West Sixth IPA, to our Pay it Forward Cocoa Porter. In our taprooms in downtown Lexington, we have 15-20 West Sixth varieties on tap, along with occasional special bottle releases from our Sixfold and Barrel-aged series. Now a team of more than 40, we focus on brewing beers with quality and creativity that we’re proud to serve to our friends, and most importantly, that we like to drink!
That said, we measure our success as a company not just on the beer that we make, but also on our social impact in the communities we’re a part of. We support the direct work of nonprofits in our area through programs like our Pay it Forward program and 6th for a Cause. We are environmentally conscious in everything we do (did you know nationwide, 70% of aluminum is recycled and only 20% of glass is?). And finally, we strive to be an awesome place to work, offering discounted CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) benefits, private staff yoga classes, and employee ownership.
We focus our brewing talents on a wide variety of beers – we produce and can styles ranging from our flagship West Sixth IPA, to our Pay it Forward Cocoa Porter. In our taprooms in downtown Lexington, we have 15-20 West Sixth varieties on tap, along with occasional special bottle releases from our Sixfold and Barrel-aged series. Now a team of more than 40, we focus on brewing beers with quality and creativity that we’re proud to serve to our friends, and most importantly, that we like to drink!
That said, we measure our success as a company not just on the beer that we make, but also on our social impact in the communities we’re a part of. We support the direct work of nonprofits in our area through programs like our Pay it Forward program and 6th for a Cause. We are environmentally conscious in everything we do (did you know nationwide, 70% of aluminum is recycled and only 20% of glass is?). And finally, we strive to be an awesome place to work, offering discounted CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) benefits, private staff yoga classes, and employee ownership.
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Golden yellow with moderate head. Orange, peach, biscuit malt, and orange peel aroma. Moderately sweet orange, lychee, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter grapefruit peel flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2026
at 22:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Cloudy pale yellow with small head. Dank grass, lemon, and biscuit malt, Mildy sweet lemon, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter dank grass flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2026
at 22:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Golden yellow with small head. Lemon, yeast, biscuit malt, and grass aroma. Moderately sweet orange/lemon, yeasty biscuit malt, and mildly bitter grass flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2026
at 22:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Golden yellow with small head. Light rice malt and straw aroma. Moderately sweet lemon, rice malt, mild umami, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2026
at 22:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pale yellow with minimal head. Lime, biscuit malt, and grass aroma. Mildly sweet lime, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter grass and lime peel flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2026
at 22:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
35cl Blik van Beer Republic. Zwarte kleur, beige-bruine kraag. Gebrand, bitter, bakkerscacao, zwarte Engelse drop, espresso, vleugje caramel en chocolade, bittere finish. Medium tot volle body. Degelijke no-nonsense RIS, tikje aan de bittere kant.
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 13 Jun 2026
at 19:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dark yellow with large light tan head. Pine, grapefruit peel, orange, and biscuit malt aroma. Moderately sweet orange, biscuit malt, and strong bitter grapefruit peel and pine flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Can
on 24 May 2026
at 02:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Blik 35,5cl thuis. Roasted malts, wat liquorice, bittertonen, malttonen, wat caramel, pure chocolade, wat soja, koffiedrab. (27-4-2026).
Tried
from Can
from Beer Republic
on 26 Apr 2026
at 22:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can shared by Staffan, thanks.
Small lingering brown head.
Nice roasted and chocolate aroma.
Smooth chocolate taste.
Small lingering brown head.
Nice roasted and chocolate aroma.
Smooth chocolate taste.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Apr 2026
at 19:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pale yellow with small head. Lemon, biscuit malt, and straw aroma. Moderately sweet lemon/orange, biscuit malt, and mildly bitter straw/grass flavor. Okay body.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2026
at 22:27