Cisco Brewers

A great lunch spot. Nice way to spent an afternoon. Great beer and food trucks. A «must visit» spot on Nantucket.

An oasis from downtown. Staff is great. Laid back, pets welcome (kids too!), unique talented bands that actually use a variety of REAL instruments, I live here but still can’t resist their soft T’s, blankets, glasses & yes, I collect their hats! So aside from the sun, ambiance & shopping, try the Pineapple Express! They’re a fantastic brewery as well :). All welcome. Oh! The food trucks are from local restaurants & a raw bar to boot! Close to beach. Who could ask for anything more!!!

One of the happiest places on earth, I think. Delicious beer, lovely patio, a+ staff. :)

I’ve been living under a rock and just learned that Cisco Brewery hosts a bunch of great food trucks and live music throughout the summer. If it’s sunny and you’re not at the beach, then you’re here.

Such a great atmosphere. Live music, fantastic beverage options, brewery tours, & great food trucks! Sam was great!

Awesome, fun place, their staff is amazing, and fun, live music and great food…

Check their live music schedule (typically a live band but varies in the offseason). Great selection of beers on tap, ask to try a sample before ordering a drink… please don’t waste good beer! The bartenders don’t hate their job so if you get the chance sit at the bar and chat with them.

Nantucket is a wonderful island, and is an adventure in and within itself. Add Cisco Brewers to that equation and you have yourself a feature length movie full of intrigue.
After taking a ferry to Nantucket, the lady and I had to grab bikes to get around the island. After visiting the various Whaling Museum sites sprinkled around the town, it only felt natural to bike it to the Cisco Brewery.
The experience of getting to Cisco Brewers is incredibly beautiful, but also long and tiring. Once we made it to the brewery we were ready to wipe the sweat from our brows and were immediately rejuvenated by the atmosphere of music and summer festivities. To our surprise there was not only a brewery, but also a winery and distillery collocated in the same space.
The Cisco Brewers product is good, but adventure to Nantucket and to the brewery is what makes it great. If you’re on Nantucket, I highly recommend you visit the brewery.

If you come to ACK you have to come here.
Pros:
— Great beer garden just like in Germany but in Nantucket
— Try the purple haired lady if you like something different (Grey Haired Lady with a purple floater on top)
— All of the beer is amazing here
— My wife loves the blueberry wine mojito and it was amazing (I even got one)
— They also have good vodka by the bottle here so come prepared to shop
— the staff is nice but also wicked busy so slack cut
Cons:
— lots of flies because of old beer on the tables that hasn’t ever been cleaned up
— very communal so you’ll be sitting with strangers if you don’t mind.
Great place to go and have some fun drinks with friends. Don’t think about it just go.

Fantastic very different types of beers all local. Lobster rolls, oysters, shrimp, food trucks, live music. Great fun place.

It really doesn’t get better than this. The only con I can think of is that this place is a MADHOUSE on holiday weekends during the summer and even some regular summer weekends. However, besides this one fact which really isn’t the fault of the business, this place nails it. There’s a reason it’s so popular.
Avoid at all costs Memorial Day weekend, July 4^th weekend and Labor Day weekend. If you’re here only for those weekends and you really need to do it, come, but come early. Don’t come Saturday at 4pm post beach with the entire island. Just don’t.
Every year, they add more and more. A new tent and stage, more seating, oh a winery. Every year it’s more and more impressive. Mid week, with a guy playing guitar, only a dozen or so people, this place is the heavenly to enjoy a beer/​cocktail/​wine since they have it all. Sit back and indulge in some oysters or blue fish pâté or even some fish tacos from the local food vendors and enjoy the beer garden and the summer breeze.
The beer is good. I love me some sankaty light. I’m a huge fan of their 888 vodka and their freshly made cocktails some with garden mixers like kale and cucumber juice. Bloody Mary’s here? Hell to the yes.
Talking with friends, we all agree they could step it up on their gear game. Get some doper hoodies and change it up. Would ya?
Parking is a bitch.
It can get super busy.
It ain’t cheap.
Other than that, enjoy this very special place.

Great food trucks and stands, wonderful tour (thanks Brian!), tasty beer, and fun live music. It’s a laid back and relaxing atmosphere. Rode our bikes here (lots of bike parking) then headed to Cisco Beach with a growler. I’m going to keep my eye open for Cisco Brew beer in the Midwest.

Has turned into a huge happy hour since my last visit. Was super crowded with 20 – 30 something’s. No longer really an all ages thing. Not for kids. On the plus side, the raw bar was fantastic, and the drinks /​beer great as well.

The brewery is a fun place to chill on the weekends. I imagine it would be cool on a week day after work as well. There is bike parking if you were ambitious enough to ride to a brewery, and there is a free shuttle to and from the visitors center downtown for the rest of us. Try to take that if possible because cabs are so expensive in the island.
The beers are $ 6 — $ 8 and you can also buy and fill growlers if you want. The bartenders are super knowledgeable and are willing to let you taste before you buy.
The tour was very informative. You get to try 2 wines, 2 beers, and 2 spirits. It was great to learn about the history of the facilities and flavors, and you get to keep a tasting glass.
There are 3 food trucks (pizza, Mexican, and seafood). All are good and very needed after an afternoon go drinking and listening to live music.

Best brewery in Mass, live music, beer, wine and cocktails. All home grown in ACK, been coming for the last 3 years and will keep coming.
Also, you can bring your kids and dogs. It doesn’t get better than that.

This place is probably my favorite part about Nantucket lol These guys have a free shuttle to and from the brewery and the visitors center on Federal St. The brewery’s charm is undeniable from the minute you walk into the square. I had the Grey Lady Belgian Wheat and loved it. It was a lot more citrusy than Shock Top but in a good flavorful way. If you come to Nantucket, you have to stop by and try this awesome place. Love music to boot!

Such a fun place to spend an afternoon. We came here after a couple hours of beach time, so we were ready to sit down and drink allll of the beer. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that on top of beer, they also offer wine, cider, and delicious cocktails! The bloody mary was spicy (in a good way), and the moscow mule = delicious. A cocktail will set you back ~ 10 bucks, while the beers are only $ 5. It was pretty crowded when we got there, but luckily we were able to snag a table in the outdoor patio! $ 5 entrance fee
There was also a few food options while we were there — one taco truck, a raw bar (with oysters etc), and a seafood truck. Not sure if these food trucks are constants, but the seafood truck was amazing — get the lobster roll with sweet potatoe fries!

This was a total blast!
We went to the Cisco Brewery based on a recommendation from a friend and we were not disappointed! It is a very casual environment with assorted food trucks. There is plenty of entertainment — Singers jamming to 80’s and 90’s music.
There was a truck that shucked fresh oysters (I think he called them Nantucket Blondies), shrimp cocktail and tuna sashimi — all were fantastic. There was another truck called Maria’s that sold Spanish food — Amazing lobster rolls and seasoned corn on the cob. There was also a Nantucket Lobster Trap truck, where my daughter got chickens fingers. She enjoyed them.
There are friendly dogs wandering around with lots of kids toys all over the place. They provide porto-​potties as well as a very clean (surprise!!) bathroom.
The brewery provides a shuttle service but the vans aren’t large enough to accommodate all the people so you can spend a long time waiting. We opted to take a taxi which was relatively reasonable at $ 14 each way.
We would definitely come back!!!

I popped in here one of the last weekends of June during the Film Festival and was pleasantly surprised with how comfortable this place was. We were down on the beach close to the brewers and happened to hit the middle-​day hours (2/​3pm) where we were running out of beverages and were not prepared with food. A couple of us jumped on the 10 minute bike ride excursion to the brewers and were able to stock up on both of those necessities. When we arrived, the brewers were not too packed at all.
We stopped over at a couple of the trucks (Mexican and Lobster Truck) to grab some food. The Mexican offered a great assortment of quesadillas, tacos and burritos. Everything we got here was flavorful and reasonably priced ($ 35 for 1 quesadilla, 1 order of fish tacos — 2 of them, and 1 order of lobster toast). We also stopped over at the lobster truck and grabbed a lobster roll that was accompanied with some chips that was also very fresh, enjoyable and priced accordingly ($ 15). There was also a store available to purchase some of Nantucket’s nearby brews that was also reasonably priced (12 pack for $ 18).
I would definitely like to come back to experience this in full by staying and eating here as they had tables available, the game corn-​hole going and I am sure they get the music going as well. Overall this was an easy, quick pit-​stop for us but we were fortunate to grab it in off hours.
Enjoy.

Went Memorial Day weekend. (that was probably my fault)
1.5 hour wait
$ 20 cover to get in gets you entry only
Packed in could barely move
Lines at every serving station
Probably a cool place during the slow season, but I would not even go near it during the high season again.