West Sixth Brewing

Regional Brewery in Lexington, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 4 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
501 W 6th St, #100, Lexington, KY, 40508, United States
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.

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7.5/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Dark amber with moderate tan head. Chocolate, caramel malt, and hay aroma. Mildly sweet chocolate caramel malt, and mildly bitter ash and hay flavor. Good body.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2025 at 01:03

8.4/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Hazy red amber with small head. Raspberry, milk, biscuit malt, and straw aroma. Moderate sweet-tart raspberry, creamy biscuit and mildly bitter straw flavor. Nice body.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2025 at 00:57

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Earthy/dank grapefruit peel, pine, orange, and biscuit malt aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Mildly sweet citrus, biscuit malt, and strong bitter dank pine and grapefruit peel flavor. Good body.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2025 at 00:43

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 5
Utseende: Gulbrun.
Lukt: Humle, malt.
Smak: Humle, malt, krydder.
Skum/kullsyre: Tykt dekkende skum, heng.
Medium: Rating:8-5-5-8-5=5.8, Can@330ml, ABV@5.5%, Når@2025.05.28.
Hvor: Samling Bryne
Navn: Amber Ale
Stil: AMBER / RED ALE - AMBER ALE
Bryggeri: West Sixth Brewing
Tried from Can on 28 May 2025 at 10:58

6.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Thanks omhper! Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, some nectary and mild wooden tones to it. Flavour is floral, some wooden, nectary and mild biscuity tones to it.
Tried from Can on 22 May 2025 at 14:32

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Decent light lager at bar in downtown Louisville. Nice and crisp, good crushable beer
Tried from Can on 16 May 2025 at 13:24

8/10
Tried from Can on 14 May 2025 at 20:53

7/10
Tried from Can on 30 Apr 2025 at 20:27

6/10
Tried from Can on 30 Apr 2025 at 17:47

7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 6 Overall 8
Canned, from Systembolaget. Clear amber, small head. Distinct toasty nose with some citrus. Mid sweet with medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Aromatic, intensely roasty barley. Mild spice and hay. Balanced bitter finish. Pleasant, arch-American amber ale.
Tried from Can from Systembolaget Beställningssortiment on 16 Apr 2025 at 21:13