Cisco Brewers

A first-time collaboration beer between three pioneering American craft breweries that are part of Craft Brew Alliance (“CBA”) (NASDAQ: BREW) will be tapped at the 21st Annual Kona Brewers Festival on March 12, 2016. New England cranberries, North Carolina honey and Hawaiian cacao come together in Konambisco Amber Ale, which was inspired when the craft brewers behind Kona Brewing Co. of Kailua-Kona, HI, Appalachian Mountain Brewery of Boone, NC, and Cisco Brewers of Nantucket, MA. came up with the idea to collaborate on a beer that celebrates the extraordinary places each brewery calls home.

Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) is in the process of purchasing a minority stake in Nantucket, Mass.-based Cisco Brewers, CEO Andy Thomas told Brewbound on Monday. The two parties are still negotiating specific terms, but Thomas said a deal would be for less than 25 percent of the company, enabling Cisco to maintain its status as a Brewers Association-defined craft brewer.

Brewbound kicked off its 2015 slate of Brew Talks events this week at Harpoon Brewery’s beer hall in the seaport district of Boston, Mass., where more than 130 people filed in to catch industry heavyweights from the city sound off on issues both local and national in scope. Kicking things off, a panel comprised of Jean-Claude Tetreault, co-owner of neighboring Trillium Brewing, Peter Burke, national sales director of Cisco Brewing on the island of Nantucket, and Megan Parker-Gray, the bar manager of beer hotspot Row 34, tackled the myriad elements shaping the city’s emerging beer culture.

Nantucket, Mass. — Cisco Brewers (www.ciscobrewers.com) has teamed up with the OCEARCH group (www.ocearch.org) to produce a beer that will benefit research and education on apex predators of the ocean, while inspiring fascination rather than fear.

Today’s craft beer drinker is a promiscuous one, eschewing the loyalty their daddy’s daddy showed to his favorite brew so many years ago in favor of exploration. But heck, Gramps didn’t have a fraction of the options enjoyed by the contemporary consumer.

Nantucket, Mass. — Cisco Brewers (www.ciscobrewers.com) will be releasing Cisco Cider later this week. This cider is produced once a year, and is only available to consumers on tap in Massachusetts.

Nantucket, Mass. — Feb. 24, 2014 — Cisco Brewers (www.ciscobrewers.com) has introduced a variety pack of bottled beer, now available for sale in Massachusetts and rolling out to more states this week.

Nantucket, Mass. — Cisco Brewers (www.ciscobrewers.com) has introduced a variety pack of bottled beer, now available for sale in Massachusetts and rolling out to more states this week.

There’s no shortage of collaboration in the craft beer business. Breweries often team up on beers that featuring the names of each company, perpetuating the idea, true or not, that camaraderie is alive and well in the world of craft.

A selection of beers from Cisco Brewers recently began cropping up at retail locations in Southern California and Nevada. The Nantucket, Mass.-based beer company began sending its beer farther west in mid-March after leveraging an existing distribution arrangement with the L. Knife & Son wholesale network.