Cisco Brewers is a brewery, distillery, and winery founded in 1992 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, by Randy and Wendy Hudson.

This event created the company’s motto, “Nice beer, if you can get it.”[7] In 1997, Dean Long applied to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a license to manufacture high-proofed spirits.

The plan called for the whiskey to be aged for five years; to generate income, the decision was made to also produce vodka because it could be sold immediately.

To help raise capital for the production of the vodka, people were allowed to purchase futures on barrels of Notch Whiskey.

As a result, a great white shark tagged by OCEARCH in October 2016 near Nantucket, Massachusetts, was named "Cisco" after the brewery.