Cisco Brewers
Microbrewery
in Nantucket,
Massachusetts,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
The Brewers Collective
Associated Venue: Cisco Brew Pub - Logan Airport
Established in 1992
SpringsLicker (4048) reviewed Moor Porter from Cisco Brewers 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to ClarkVV for this! Huge head of light brown creamy foam. Dark brown color in the body with lots of red highlights. Aroma is strongly of powdered cocoa and vanilla. Lightly sweet from the start to the finish with a long lasting cocoa flavor. The dry dusty palate keeps it from being overly sweet and makes this one a very pleasant Porter worth seeking out.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Oleana 3C Ale from Cisco Brewers 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A "collaboration" between Cisco and Oleana produced this hoppy Belgian IPA/saison. Comes in 750mL bottles for $12 a bottle at the restaurant on Hampshire St, near Inman Square in Cambridge.
Bottle is quite carbonated, as all Cisco beers, but does not gush. Off-white/cream colored head is full and fluffy, atop a deep copper-golden, unfiltered body. Great retention and lacing. Aroma, after the head dies down a bit, and the beer warms, is quite expressive of light yeast, cardamon and some light herbal/orange hops. Bits of pale malt also noted. Flavor begins with a full amount of malt, plenty of live, fresh yeast and a bit of cardamon and coriander. The coriander is drowned out more by the hops however, and does not seem dominant. Malt provides a strong backbone. Light dough, honey, almonds and a spicy, lightly bitter finish, quite dry and a bit bready. Medium-full body, yet quite drinkable, not overspiced. So good, had to order another bottle.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Captain Swains Extra Stout from Cisco Brewers 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2003 or 2002 bottle (not sure). We start out with the typical drill: open, let breath for about 5 hours, pour in glass, stir for a minute or so. . .Yes, it does get old. Yes, Cisco beers are overcarbonated, but it is not fair to judge them as so. If you just let it breath for a while, you can see the wonderful qualities these unpasteurised, unfiltered beers possess. Huge yeastiness on this one. You can feel it seep from the aroma. Oily, astringent roast, bitter black malt. Dark, opaque black beer, with dark mahogany brown tinges on the edges. Mountains of off-white foam. Bitter, with huge dark chocolate and yeasty wininess. This beer is a monster of bitterness, oiliness and unrelenting yeast. I appreciate that, but all the same, I could use some sweetness. Light coffee, dry barley roast, unmalted roasted barley, it’s all here. A slow sipper and a huge, uncompromising beer. Ultimately too dry, and without the vinousness and smooth chocolate that the Moor porter utilizes. Still, a wonderfully made beer, just needs some work.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to my Secret Santa and ClarkVV who both sent me bottles of this. This needed to be poured into a pitcher to settle down, nothing but head for a long while. Black with lots of lasting tan head. Roasty aroma comes through after a bit of warm up and the flavor is nicely roasty with a spicy almost licorice quality. Smooth and medium bodied. Good average Stout that hides it’s alcohol rather well.
jgb9348 (11734) reviewed Captain Swains Extra Stout from Cisco Brewers 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Pitch black body with a dense off-white head. Aroma of paint (as jon mentions), roasted malt, cherries, coffee and a bit of chocolate. Medium-bodied; Strong roasty malt flavour up front with a cherry tartness-wierd! Very light bodied for the style, and the flavour lasts only a short period of time. Aftertaste is mild and roasty, also sweet and tart from the cherries. A wierd and complex beer, but not the best fo the style at all. Overall, good to try, but i’d rather have Whale’s Tale instead of this. I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased at Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in Washington, D.C. on 14-November-2004 with good friend jon[r888710].
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Harvest Ale from Cisco Brewers 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2004 draught @ Redbones. Appearance is quite lovely for the style, dark orange/copper, with some auburn hints and yellow/golds around the edges. Large foamy white head typical of Cisco. Aroma of wet, soily, green hops, low in bitterness and quite earthy (something like fuggles), also a hint of malt, lightly sweet. Flavor starts out with a sweet, juicy malt creaminess, followed by a big hops flavor that is quite the opposite of what I was expecting. No huge unbalanced bitterness, just a good floral hops flavor, lightly bitter, with the malt easily standing up to the hops. Strange yeast and malt notes through the middle, almost a vegetable quality that I cant put my finger on. Carbonation, is quite good for Cisco, I guess being on tap helps it, as it is lively, but not sharp and creates no thinning on the body. A very flavorful, medium-full bodied ale with tons of malt and fresh hops. 7/5/7/4/15
2004 bottle sampled 3/6/05 Well wouldn’t you know it, another hopeful that I brought to the tasting ended up sucking. Perhaps draught Cisco beers are ultimately better, and it would make sense that it was better having it fresh on draught, but still, this bottle is barely 6 months old and it already is thin/oxidized somewhat, and has strange spoiled fruit notes. The green hops still come through fairly pleasantly, but the body is a sad, sad memory of what I had on draught. A watery, thin mess of a palate. 7/5/6/2/11
jgb9348 (11734) reviewed Whale's Tale Pale Ale from Cisco Brewers 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Great copper coloured body with a dense off-white head and some ruby highlights. Aroma of light hops, wheat, corn, bubblegum & hot dogs-YES, HOT DOGS! Medium to Light-bodied; Mild malt flavour with hops and some citrus following up. Aftertaste left bland, only a small amount of hops bitter up the palate. Overall, a not-so-good APA, but decent to try & a treat in Georgetown. I sampled this 75 cL bottle purchased from Dean & Deluca in Georgetown (Washington) D.C. on 27-August-2004 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Lubiere (24390) reviewed Baggywrinkle Barleywine from Cisco Brewers 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
April 2004. Hazy red copper ale with a little cardboardy oxidized aroma. Still sweet and alcoholic on the nose. Nice malts and nuts, hops in finish come out well. Well blended.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Moor Porter from Cisco Brewers 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
2003 bottle. Aged some 16+ months. I opened this one and let it breath a good 8 hours before decanting. I really feel this helped. Pours a lovely transluscent oily brown. Lots of olive-brown tinges, light mahogany tones and some dark oak colors swirling around. Bottle conditioned, good off-white head and lacing. Aroma of light roast coffee, hints of chocolate and plenty of yeast! Flavor at first had me hating this beer, but I stuck with it and it became exceptionally unique. It starts out with a huge yeastiness that combines with the rich roastiness to really knock you back. Only a touch of coffee and sweetness. The typical wininess you get from Cisco to compound the already peculiar taste and you’ve got yourself one strange beer. But as it sits and breathes and I drink more; wow, this is a real porter. Medium light body, yeastiness and mustiness of an old ale, with nuts, light tofee and only a touch of sweetness. This is one hell of an authentic English porter! Wow, after it’s evened out and your palate gets used to it, you can just drink it right down. Hints of light coffee on the finish, good roasted barley, vinousness and of course a touch of black malt, but it’s all mixed well for a wonderful vintage effect. A true porter of old with plenty pleasing complexities. This isnt just a light caramelly Stegmaier or moderately chocolatey, thin Yuengling, this stuff has tons of character and tons of flavor. Outstanding. 7/5/8/5/18
2005 bottle Yet again, a perfect poor, dark chestnut brown, with crimson and violet tinges, head retained to perpetuity, lacing and unfiltered. In fact, I let the bottle breathe overnight and the next morning, there was still head in the bottle! Aroma of prunes, vinousness, raisins, rich earthy barley soaked in Burton water. Toffee, bakers chocolate, yeast, just lovely. Flavor is more of the same, bakers chocolate, earthy yeast, baked brown bread, raisins, prunes, concord grapes, barley and coffee on the end. Medium-full body, no wateriness, natural carbonation (let it breath!). Simply stunning, I am raising my rating. 9/5/9/5/19
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Baileys Blonde Ale from Cisco Brewers 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2003 bottle consumed 9/2004. Pours a wonderfully brilliant gold with some softer lime green/yellow hues, mountains of white foam and lacing and a vigorous carbonation rising. Bottle conditioned, as with all of their brews. Aroma has some very fragrant hops, lightly bitter and citric (lemons and limes mainly). Hint of malt sweetness and a bit of drier wheatiness and sweatiness. Flavor is bold; moderately bitter with a good amount of malt backing it up. Beer needs to breath for a while to let the carbonation even out. Lots of lemon sugar cookie flavor, but more of the hops as well on the finish. This is what I would imagine a great blonde ale to be: fresh hops, ample malt and a refreshing but not watery medium body.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.78 |
| Beers | 65 |
| Ticks | 750 |
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