The CISCO KID

One of the great pleasures of living on Nantucket is going out to the CISCO brewery near Bartlett's farm. It is an outdoor venue that I wrote about a while back that reminds me of a biker campground in Daytona Beach but without the bikes. They don't make much there, the hootch manufacturing plant is actually on the mainland. They do apparently make some beer. My favorite is not the Whale's Tale pictured, it is too bitter for me, but the Gray Lady which has a hint of lime juice. This week we were on our way to buy some veggies at the farm and passed CISCO and it was jumpin' with people and there were cars parked all over the road. Apparently this is common over the weekend and they even have a band. What they don't apparently have, as reported by the Inquirer and Mirror (Inky Mirror to locals) newspaper, is environmental consciousness. A front page article appeared this week that indicated that CISCO has violated too many to count environmental laws concerning the disposal of the byproducts of the production of beer and the septic tanks were overflowing.

I guess the young people who follow Al Gore and the Save Our Planet folks either did not read the paper or they just don't care about the environment when it gets in the way of a Keg Party. We are in Massachusetts, the home of John Kerry, the former Ted Kennedy, and Michael Dukakis. You would think that being "green" here would be more important than it would be to Kermit the Frog. I will go out to CISCO again next week to see if there are any tree huggers carrying signs "Save the Whales(tale)"