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How Drinking Beer This Summer Can Get You A Free Trip To Nantucket: MA Cheap Eats

There are 500 golden cans hidden inside Cisco Whale's Tale Pale Ale 12-packs across New England. One of them could get you a free vacation.

The prize includes round-trip ferry tickets, lodging and a gift card to Cisco's Nantucket pub.
The prize includes round-trip ferry tickets, lodging and a gift card to Cisco's Nantucket pub. (Courtesy Cisco Brewers)

NANTUCKET, MA — If ever you've needed an excuse to purchase beer, look no further.

Nantucket's Cisco Brewers have made a slight adjustment to a New England classic, and snagging one of them could earn you a vacation to the island.

Cisco is hiding 500 special "Golden" Whale’s Tale 12 oz. cans in 12-packs across New England. The cans will be in the cases from now through Aug. 31, and getting your hands on one will prove valuable.

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The prize includes round-trip ferry tickets to Nantucket, hotel accommodations and a gift card to Cisco Brewers Nantucket pub, valued at $3,900, according to company officials.

If you find a golden can you can enter for a chance to win at the link here, which requires an uploaded photo of the can. You must be 21 to enter and live in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island or Vermont.

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Cisco pays homage to the fishing heritage of New England through its branding and even with Whale's Tale's traditional blue can, "an ode to Nantucket’s seafaring history."

The company's brewery locations also lay out a history of the region's premier fishing ports, with pubs in Nantucket, New Bedford, Mass., Boston's Seaport and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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