Cape Cod Brewery Guide: Beer on the Cape

Welcome to Your Cape Cod Brewery Guide!

Visiting a Cape Cod Brewery is a must whether you are living on the Cape and Islands or just here on vacation.While beer is available at liquor stores throughout the region, the Cape & Islands also are home to a number of fine local breweries, each with their own story.

Cape Cod Brewery: Cape Cod Beer

A beer and ale staple in the region, Cape Cod Beer uses their own original recipes to brew Beach Blonde Ale, Cape Cod Porter, Cape Cod Red , Cape Cod Harvest, Black Van Lager and Cape Cod IPA, as well as many other special and seasonal brews. Cape Cod Beer’s philosophy is to brew the best beer possible on Cape for the people who love the Cape and distributes its beer and ales within a 50 mile radius of the brewery, from Plymouth to Provincetown. With a maximum annual capacity of 13,000 barrels housed in their brew house, Cape Cod Beer brews about 16 times a week during the busy season.

If you’re curious how this local beer and ale is brewed, Cape Cod Beer hosts tours of the brewery once a day at 11 a.m. Monday – Saturday. Here is a video of what you can expect on a tour!

You can also check out their website by clicking here.

Cape Cod Brewery: Offshore Ale Company

Offshore Ale Company in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard offers hand crafted beers and ales and various seasonal brews. Featuring Offshore IPA, Beach Road Nut Brown Ale, Offshore Amber Ale, Abel’s Hill India Dark Ale, East Chop Lighthouse Ale and Menemsha Creek Pale Ale, Offshore Ale also brews a variety of seasonal beers and ales like Offshore Blueberry, The Great Pumpkin, Oktoberfest, and Inkwell, among others.

Since 2009, Offshore Ale Company has partnered with the Coast Guard Foundation with the “Pints for Purpose” program in which a percentage of its sales for one million pints will go toward funding Coast Guard Foundation’s Enlisted Education Grants initiative, a grants program aimed at achieving higher education. Here is a brief video from the Offshore Ale Company!

You can also check out their website by clicking here.

Cape Cod Brewery: Cisco Brewers

Nantucket is home to Cisco Brewers, a brewery, winery, Nantucket Vineyards, and distillery, Triple Eight.

Cisco Brewers features numerous island-themed brews like the Whale’s Tale Pale Ale, an English style pale ale that is named in honor of Nantucket’s rich whaling history, the Grey Lady, which is named for the fog that often encompasses the island and Sankaty Light Lager, named after the lighthouse on the bluff on the southeastern side of the island.

Nantucket Vineyards features local red Sailor’s Delight and Cranberry Infused white. Triple Eight Distillery, which is the first micro-distillery in the region, originally began making Notch whiskey, described as “single malt whiskey from Nantucket.” It’s distilled from pure island water, with the whisky wash made from Cisco’s Marris Otter malt that is then transferred to the distillery. From there, the aging process starts by spending years in American White Oak casks and then to Nantucket Vineyard’s French Oak merlot casks for its final months. The distillery uses only natural ingredients and makes their products in small batches, ensuring that each product they create is of the most pristine quality.

Check out a review from one of their beers!