An outfit for your Sixpoint nanokeg

The only thing this holster needs is a nice cold beer to keep cool.

After releasing nano-kegs of its popular brews, Sixpoint is now offering koozies to keep them properly chill.

Each one is made form 100 percent genuine leather, and are hand-stitched at the seams and lined with neoprene, whatever that is, to insulate your can. And of course, the Sixpoint logo is front and center.

You can get your hands on one during tastings this summer, next up on June 18 at Brooklyn Larder in Prospect Heights, at 2 pm. May we channel Veruca Salt and say, "But I want it NOW!"

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Beer is Culture

Museums aren't the only places that do crowd-sourced exhibitions.

Sixpoint is doing its part to promote the arts with "Beer Is Culture," an art and design exhibition where you vote for the submissions.

Now through April 30, you can go to the Facebook page and "Like" your favorite design (the design with the most likes as of today is pictured at left by Steven Weinberg and Casey Scieszka). You can also upload your own original design that taps into the theme, "Beer is Culture," to the page's wall to be voted on.

Six finalists will be announced on May 1, with a final round of votes taking place that week and a winner announced May 7.

The top six finalists will receive a care package of customized apparel and treats from Sixpoint and other artisans, as well as annual membership to a museum of their choice. The first place finisher will also win online glory — the piece will become the face of Sixpoint's Facebook page, as the brewery's profile picture for the following year.

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Is Sixpoint New York's best beer?

That's what Good says.

In a new map of the the US by breweries, the Red Hook-based Sixpoint was considered by the magazine's readers to have "the most awesome, best-tasting, sustainably brewed, independently owned, community-oriented craft beer" in the state.

That leaves out others like Brooklyn Brewery and Kelso of Brooklyn.

It's a nice shot-out for the company. Readers, do you agree with the recognition? [via Gothamist]

Photo: Shane Welch, found of Sixpoint Craft Ales. 

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