Medusa brewery takes gold at the 'Olympics of Brewing'
Courtesy Craft Brewers Association
Medusa Brewing Company's Jeff Bagdigian (assistant brewer/bar manager), Alyssa Lawrence (assistant brewer/bar manager), Keith Sullivan (co-founder and general manager), and Keith Antul (co-founder and head brewer) accept their award from Charlie Papasian the founder of the Brewers Association.
Hudson’s Medusa Brewing Company has taken home a gold medal from the World Beer Cup for the one-year-old brewery’s Duchovni Pilsener.
The international competition that takes place every two years was held over the weekend, with Medusa taking home gold in the category of Bohemian-Style Pilsener. The single category drew in 65 entries, including beers from Germany and the Czech Republic, where the pilsener style originated more than 100 years ago.
“It feels good to be able to show the world that good beer, whether it’s an IPA or in our case a Bohemian style pilsener, does not have to come from the region in which it originated but can come from a small town in Massachusetts,” said Keith Sullivan, Medusa’s co-founder and general manager. “It was just a real humbling night.”
The one-year old brewery, which brews a relatively small 1,200 barrels a year, submitted four beers to the competition that Sullivan described as the “Olympics of Brewing,” as it puts the best brewers from throughout the world against each other. And while Sullivan was proud of his brewery and feels it is a huge win, he also explained that these awards are a huge win for Massachusetts breweries. Night Shift Brewery in Everett took home a bronze medal for their IPA
“I don’t know if we are more proud for ourselves or for the state,” he said. “We are always trying to figure out a way to bring in more beer seekers. They are always traveling up to New Hampshire and Maine so winning that medal substantiates a claim that we are a great state for brewing.”
The pilsner style is a very difficult one to expertly pull off, explained Sullivan. It is such a simple recipe that the over 250 judges are looking for perfect execution.
“It is not a style that can have any fault in it,” he said. “You need to have ultimate control and precision in the brewing environment.”
A new batch of the award winning beer is set to be brewed in the next few weeks and released later this summer, Sullivan said. The company is also planning a “major expansion” within the next year to meet ongoing demand, although he said it is yet to be determined where that will take place.
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