Cisco Brewers Introduces Stargazer Pilsner, Honoring Maria Mitchell
Raise a Pint for a Purpose!
There's still time to support the MMA at Cisco Brewers, Nantucket!
This fall, stop by Cisco Brewers and order a Stargazer Pilsner, a delicious drop-hopped pilsner brewed exclusively for the Maria Mitchell Association. With $1 from every pint sold going directly to support the MMA, your next beer can help sustain our mission to inspire a lifelong passion for science and carry Maria Mitchell’s legacy forward.
Maria Mitchell was more than America’s first female astronomer — she was a librarian, educator, naturalist, and trailblazer who changed how the world looked at the stars and at women in science. She was also, quite fittingly, an unapologetic lover of beer.
Today, the
Maria Mitchell Association continues Mitchell’s work by preserving her historic home and papers, conducting astronomical and natural science research, and inspiring learners of all ages through hands-on, interactive programs.
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to snag your merch while supplies last.
According to family accounts and a story retold in the Inquirer and Mirror in 1906 (sourced from the New York Tribune), Mitchell would sneak away during visits to Boston to enjoy a frothy pint. On one occasion, she stopped in a Cambridge saloon for a bottle of beer while visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Joshua Kendall. She asked her brother-in-law to open the bottle. He asked, “Where did thee get it, Maria? Doesn’t thee know respectable women don’t go into such places?” Maria famously retorted that she not only drank it as a tonic, but also told the proprietor he “ought to be ashamed of his traffic” for entertaining an unsavory clientele.
From the Inquirer and Mirror June 9, 1906, copied from The New York Tribune.
Learn more about our very own Maria Mitchell
here.