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.
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can
Tried
from Can
on 20 Apr 2022
at 22:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Another IPA reminding me of pre-craft boom IPAs, with lots of caramel and pine and yeast, offering up gentle hints of grapefruit and dank. Plain, but drinkable.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2022
at 16:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Seems very Simcoe-heavy, lots of pine and dank and citrus, with a heady caramel backbone and lingering bitterness. Not bad.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2022
at 23:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at the taproom.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2022
at 18:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at the taproom.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2022
at 18:24
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at the taproom.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2022
at 18:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the taproom.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2022
at 18:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the taproom.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2022
at 18:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the taproom.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2022
at 18:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Toffee malt and hay aroma. Amber with small head. Lightly sweet toffee malt, and lightly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Nicely quaffable.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2022
at 02:27