So we rolled into Sixpoint Craft Brewing a little early for the first tour and ended up wandering around this block near the docks in Brooklyn; quite an interesting area to say the least. Still early we came upon two guys outside the brewery smoking, who let us in early to wait for the tour to start. We saw so many kegs of Sixpoint, my mouth was watering!


                While we were waiting, Devon recognized Aaron whom he had met at American Beer Fest (and who is coincidentally on the platform while Devon adds hops to the kettle), and they talked for a while. Then we had the privilege to meet Shane, the founder and owner of Sixpoint. Shane is a very cool laid back guy so if you go be sure to say hi to him. We talked beer for a while, and then he excused himself to go talk to some other early arrivals.

While waiting for more people to show, Shane invited us to the bar… that’s right folks, they have a full bar as part of the Sixpoint compound where they have several taps of the freshest craft beer you can get. We had a Liberty Pale Ale (available only at this bar) on the house… Delicious! We met another Jeff, only this one was their sales rep and the man responsible for any Sixpoint you see in any bar anywhere. He’s pretty cool in our book.

Shane (on the left gives brewery tour)

Shane described his start in homebrewing, his love for beer, and some seriously awful (but funny) jokes… He’s got a very dry delivery that catches you off guard. The tour started off in the grain room where everyone is encouraged to taste each grain. You could see some people were not prepared for the taste of chocolate malt. Next we went down to the brewhouse and saw them brewing Sweet Action Cream Ale. Devon got to add flavor hops while Aaron looked on. That was pretty cool, if I do say so myself!

We chatted with the guys and some other people on the tour for a while and then went back to the bar for our second beer of the day… this time they gave us a token for a free beer, and we snagged pints of their Cream Ale called Sweet Action…again, delicious (do you see a theme?)! We made more friends with people on the tour and bought some sweet shirts. We said some tearful (ok, no tears, but I was sad to leave!) goodbyes and took off on our voyage to Brooklyn Brewery a couple blocks away.

Move on to read about our time at Brooklyn Brewery

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