Local Brewery Closing After Sale Due To 'Unavoidable Circumstances'

HUDSON, MA — After a nearly four-year run along Main Street in Hudson, Ground Effect Brewing Co. will close down on Thursday after the owners sold the brewery.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, the owners said Ground Effect had been sold due to "unavoidable circumstances." The new owners will keep the brewery closed until September for renovations, the notice said.

"It’s been an amazing time since opening in November 2018, but unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances have forced the sale of the brewery. We’ve made some great beers and had some fun times in those few years, but it’s the friends we’ve made that mean the most to us," the post said.

Head Brewer Tim Daley, manager Lindsay Monroe and owners Marc Ferlo and Alexi Bobolia opened Ground Effect in November 2018 in a space at 312 Main St., just east of bustling downtown Hudson and across the street from the Assabet River Rail Trail. Ground Effect was the second brewery in Hudson following Medusa Brewing, which is still open at 111 Main St.

The brewery was born at a bar in Westborough where Monroe met Ferlo and the pair began discussing plans for a brewery, according to Brewing News. Daley, Monroe's boyfriend, had been in the brewery business for years, and was previously owner of Pioneer Brewing in Sturbridge.