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.
Bottled at SBWF 19. Very dark brown, small head. Rich aroma of vanilla and coconut. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Syrupy caramel, vanilla and honey. Warming finish.
Keg at SBWF 19. Hazy orange colour, mid sized head. Rich tangerine aroma. Mid dry with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Bready and fruity, citrus and gooseberry. Mid bitter finish. Well made.
Got this can from kroger kentucky. Nice place! Pick a mix six of untasted locals for $10? How cool is that? Right off the main 4 lane byway. Pour is a slightly darker orange yellow eye. Yes, strong, almost volatile cleaning fluid aroma of pine. Head fades to scum. Firz-sherz this stuff lets you know its higher than 6% right off the top. Rude, bitter IPA in character. Not refreshing. Does not hide alky well, even with lots of bitter resinous hops. Big impressive mouth coating bitter bullshit blastaway blastaway blast away all. Difficult on a second time round glug. Yes, beyond on style for a stronger APA but probably more like an IPA in nature. Nasty nellie negative experience. What else can be said? Terribly palte trashing on style for an IPA? Yea. What ever.
Milk, barley malt, and straw aroma. Hazy golden yellow with giant white head. Mildly sweet creamy barley malt and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body. A very solid, easy drinking lager.
Bottle shared at Lucky Bamboo. Thanks John! Pours a deep brown to black with a finger of beige head that dissipates. Big bourbon forward nose with dark chocolate, cacao nib, molasses and oak as it warms. Smooth...maybe a touch thin on the body. A bit hot and boozy as well. Good complex stout notes with oak, bourbon, treacle, cacao nib and vanilla as it warms. Pretty solid BBA stout. I still enjoy the non-BA version a bit more.
Soft malt aroma, has great foam on a cloudy penny copper body. Flavour is soft malt and mellow hops. Mouthfeel is full and crisp. Adequately brewed but pretty standard.
Can. Pours opaque black, medium tan head, decent lacing. Aroma is roasty, molasses, cocoa, leather, dusty. Flavor is medium sweet, medium bitter . Roast. Full body. Solid.
750ml bottle pours a sticky black with a ring of beige head. Nose has malt, booze, caramel, cake, chocolate. Flavor is malty, cakey, chocolate, caramel, booze, bourbon, vanilla. Big finish, sticky, boozy, a bit hot.
Bottle from the September DC RB Tasting. Poured a nearly pitch black color with a small brown head. Aroma was a touch of roasted malts. Light chocolate, coffee. Vanilla. Bourbon. Creamy. Smooth. Boozy chocolate finish.