Local breweries and beers are the hallmark of the American craft beer movement. Rejecting watered down conglomo-beers, microbreweries all over the country are serving their communities highly flavorful and delicately crafted crunk juice. New York is no exception. The most popular brewery in NYC, Brooklyn Brewery, has national distribution deals and overshadows smaller breweries even in it’s own neighborhood. Sixpoint Craft Ales, however, is a neighborhood brewery serving its neighborhood.
Located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Sixpoint logo is a six-pointed star. Not like a Star of David, but they look the similar. Brewers in the old days used to stamp their barrels with a six pointed star to represent the six pillars of good brewing: water, grain, malt, hops, yeast and the brewer himself. Sixpoint has taken this symbol, adopted and adapted it along with the nautical five-pointed star that appears all over it’s neighborhood of Red Hook and made it their logo as well as their mission.
I tried Sixpoint’s Sweet Action (one of the coolest names for a beer I’ve ever heard) at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden here in Queens, NY and it almost made me forget about the previous pitcher of Czech beer I had just downed. A fizzy head and light auburn color made this beer look like it was going to be sweet. Rich biscuity, grainy and grassy aromas gave way to one of the sweetest beers I’ve ever had. Vanilla and caramel are the dominant tastes and light carbonation gives some backbone to the light body. It finishes sweet and buttery and really makes you want to take another sip.
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