Sixpoint Craft Ales was founded in 2004 by Shane Welch, a former homebrewer who originally grew up in Milwaukee. The microbrewery is located in a 7000 ft2 factory in in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6. It is also the location where the transatlantic liner, the , docks in New York City.- History :...

 that formerly manufactured filing cabinet

Filing cabinet

A filing cabinet is a piece of office furniture usually used to store paper documents in file folders. In the most simple sense, it is an enclosure for drawers in which items are stored. The two most common forms of filing cabinets are blocky files and diagonal files...

s. Sixpoint began business by only distributing kegs to local bars and restaurants; instead of bottling its beer, filling growlers at bars were the only way for customers to drink the beer at their homes.

The Sixpoint logo is a combination of the brewer's hexagram and the nautical star

Nautical star

The 'nautical' star is a symbolic star associated with the sea services of the United States armed forces and with tattoo culture. It is usually rendered as a five-pointed star in dark and light shades counterchanged in a manner reminiscent of a compass rose....

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