North Shore MA Brewery
Brewed for Community
A neighborhood brewery where the beer is simple, the welcome is real, and everyone belongs.
Our Story
Gentile Brewing Company is a family owned and operated nano craft brewery in Beverly, MA.
As the city’s first craft beer taproom, we've been community focused, family friendly, dog friendly, and inclusive from day one. Our beer is made to be enjoyed, not fussed over.
You'll find us in downtown Beverly, fewer than 300 steps (we counted!) north of the Beverly Depot MBTA Station on Park Street. Our home at 59 Park Street was built in 1884 and originally housed the Creesy Shoe Factory, one of many manufacturers that shaped Beverly’s working history over the past century.
Many of our beers pay homage to the people who lived and worked here long before us. Today, we are proud to add a new chapter to that story as a gathering place for neighbors, families, friends, and visitors alike.
We hope you'll stop in, grab a pint, and stay awhile.
– Paul & Christen Gentile, Owners
Our Commitment to Community
We are dedicated to maintaining a safe, respectful, and equitable taproom environment for all employees, guests, and visitors. Discrimination or harassment of any kind has no place here. All are welcome.
Gentile Brewing Company will not discriminate based on race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward discrimination or harassment and will promptly and fairly review all complaints. Reports can be made directly to management or via our third-party partner, Speakfully.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity organization. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Brains behind the operation
Paul Gentile
Paul’s love affair with craft beer started in 2005 when his mother gave him a homebrew kit for his birthday. What began as weekend batches for family and friends quickly turned into a calling. By 2008, Paul stepped into the professional craft beer world at Mercury Brewing Company (Ipswich Ale) in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he immersed himself in every corner of brewery operations, from logistics to finance to the cellar floor.
In 2009, under the mentorship of head brewer Dan Lipke, Paul began brewing professionally. He brewed the full Ipswich Ale portfolio along with many of the contract brands produced at Mercury at the time, including Clown Shoes Beer, Slumbrew, and Notch Brewing. Those years gave Paul a rare, inside look at what makes great breweries work, not just from a recipe standpoint, but from an operations, quality, and community perspective.
After those first successful homebrews in 2005 & 2006, Paul knew he wanted to one day open a brewery in his own community. In 2016, that vision became reality with the opening of Gentile Brewing Company in Beverly. Gentile Brewing was the first craft beer taproom to open north of Boston, helping spark what would become a vibrant North Shore craft beer scene.
Over the past decade, Paul has become more than a brewer. He has become a fixture in the Beverly community and a quiet leader in the growth of craft beer across the North Shore. Gentile Brewing is known as much for its welcoming taproom as it is for its beer. Under Paul’s leadership, the brewery has become a gathering place for neighbors, families, dog owners, runners, book clubs, musicians, food trucks, fundraisers, and local makers.
Paul has built Gentile Brewing around the idea that a brewery should feel like a community living room. A place where you can bring what you bring. Kids’ toys in the corner, dogs at your feet, conversations with strangers who become regulars. His commitment to quality beer is matched by his commitment to creating an inclusive, approachable space where everyone feels comfortable walking through the door.
He has partnered with local nonprofits, hosted countless community events, supported other small businesses, and mentored aspiring brewers and entrepreneurs along the way. Many local breweries and beer professionals across the North Shore trace part of their story back to time spent in Gentile’s taproom, learning from Paul, or being inspired by what he built.
Today, when you walk into Gentile Brewing, you are stepping into a dream that started with a homebrew kit in 2005 and grew into a cornerstone of Beverly’s downtown culture. Paul still brews with the same curiosity and care that hooked him years ago, but what he’s most proud of is not just the beer. It is the community that has grown around it.
Christen Gentile
Christen brings more than a love of craft beer to Gentile Brewing. She brings over twenty years of experience in marketing, corporate communications, social media, and community building.
By day, Christen leads communications and employee experience for a global technology organization. By night and weekend, she applies those same skills to the brewery. From merchandise and events to storytelling, social presence, and taproom experience, Christen helps shape how Gentile Brewing shows up in the community and how the community feels when it walks through the door.
She has been Paul’s biggest supporter since tasting his very first homebrew, a dry Irish stout, in 2005. Since Gentile Brewing opened in Beverly, Christen has played a key role in building the welcoming, family friendly, dog friendly, come as you are atmosphere the taproom is known for today.
Christen believes a brewery should feel like a neighborhood living room. A place where stories are shared, friendships are formed, and everyone feels like a regular.
Camille Gentile
Camille has been part of Gentile Brewing since the very beginning. She was just two years old when the taproom doors opened and has quite literally grown up alongside the brewery.
Regulars have watched her go from coloring at the tables to helping tidy up, greeting familiar faces, and proudly explaining “this is my brewery.” Camille represents what Gentile Brewing has always been about. Family, comfort, and a place where kids are just as welcome as adults. Camille is a native of Beverly, MA. While she will not be able to legally taste the beer until 2034, by her own admission, she pours the best beer of all the staff (privately, for mom and dad, of course).
Gregory Gentile
Gregory is a familiar face (similar to his twin brother’s face, Joseph, below) in the taproom and one of Gentile Brewing’s most enthusiastic helpers. Whether he is clearing glasses, organizing games, or chatting with customers, he takes his “unofficial staff” role seriously.
He has grown up seeing firsthand how a small business can bring people together. Gregory knows many customers by name and treats the taproom like an extension of his home.
His energy and friendliness are a big part of the welcoming atmosphere people feel when they visit.
Joseph Gentile
Joseph has spent most of his life in the taproom (save those first two to three weeks), often found drawing, bouncing a ball, or observing the steady rhythm of brewery life from a corner table.
He has grown up surrounded by conversations, laughter, dogs at his feet, and a constant flow of neighbors and friends. For Joseph, Gentile Brewing is simply part of everyday life.
He represents the easygoing, come as you are spirit that defines the brewery and makes it feel like a second living room for so many families in the community.
Lady Gentile
Adopted from Puerto Rico through Northeast Animal Shelter, Lady quickly became Gentile Brewing’s original four-legged host.
In the early taproom days, she was a constant presence. Greeting guests at the door, keeping a watchful eye on visiting pups, and expertly patrolling for dropped snacks and offered treats. Many regulars still ask about her before they order a beer.
These days, Lady is enjoying a well-earned retirement. A sighting in the taproom is rare and very special. Most of her time is now spent chasing sunny spots around the house and supervising the yard from her favorite lookout.
She may no longer clock regular hours at the brewery, but Lady will always be part of Gentile Brewing’s story and a legend among our regulars.
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