Flip The Bird, Coastal Mass. Brewing Team Up For 'Flock Of The Town' Beverly Beer

BEVERLY, MA — A Beverly brewery and a group of popular North Shore chicken sandwich shops are teaming up to celebrate a shared alma mater of Endicott College this summer.

Owners of Coastal Mass. Brewing and Flip The Bird are combining the restaurant group's homemade lemonade and the brewery's house lager to create "Flock of the Town" - a 3.5 ABV radler that will serve as one of the Rantoul Street brewery's summer seasonals while supplies last.

The companies said they have been fans of each other since their respective 2019 launches with many of the founders and top-level employees sharing the Endicott College connection. Flip The Bird co-owner Victoria Farnsworth and Marketing Manager Leah Phillips both attended the Beverly school, as did Coastal Mass. Brewing owners Justin Negrotti and Jake Crandell.

To help celebrate the new brew, they are coming together for a launch party during Endicott's Spring Week festivities. On Saturday, owners of both Flip The Bird and Coastal Mass. will be at the on-campus bar Gully's giving out free samples to 21+ students at Endicott's annual block party.

Flock of the Town will be available in cans and on draft at Coastal Mass. Brewing at 95 Rantoul Street beginning April 27 and the brewery will host a separate launch party there at 3 p.m. on April 27 that will include samples and some fried chicken sliders from Flip The Bird.

Food at that event will be first-come, first-served.

This is the latest somewhat-odd-couple collaboration for Flip The Bird — which earlier this year teamed up with Holy Cow ice cream on a "Good Vibes" ice cream using Flip The Bird's homemade honey butter.

Flip The Bird has locations in Beverly, Swampscott and Danvers.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)