District Officers

Governance 

Midwest District ByLaws
Cincinnati Articles of Incorporation
Cincinnati ByLaws
Cincinnati District Charter Agreement
Cincinnati First Board Meeting Documents
District Operation Manual

MBAA District Midwest Beer Links 

Brewers’ Links:

• Anheuser-Busch - www.anheuser-busch.com
• Boston Beer Company - www.bostonbeer.com
• Columbus Brewing Co - www.columbusbrewing.com
• Fat Head's Brewery - www.fatheadsbeer.com
• Gordon Biersch Brewery - www.gordonbiersch.com
• Market Garden Brewery - www.marketgardenbrewery.com
• Miller Brewing - www.MillerCoors.com
• North High Brewing - northhighbrewing.com​
• Samuel Adams - www.samueladams.com
• Wolf's Ridge Brewing - www.wolfsridgebrewing.com

Fun Beer Related Links:

• http://www.beerinstitute.org/
• http://www.beermonthclub.com

http://www.beerhistory.com/gallery/

Beer of the Month Club
http://www.greatclubs.com/beer-of-the-month-club/​

Beer Ingredients Links:

Need to know more about yeast ?
http://www.wyeastlab.com/

Need to order some yeast try these guys out.
http://www.whitelabs.com/basic.html

A Link to let you know who makes malt
http://www.brewingtechniques.com/bmg/briess.html

Hop Guides

• http://www.probrewer.com/resources/hops/
• http://www.probrewer.com/resources/hops/hop_data.php

Hop Varieties

• http://www.yakimachief.com/hopvarieties/hopvar.html
• https://www.johnihaas.com/cmsdk/content/web/agronomy/varieties.htm

Malt Varieties

• http://probrewer.com/resources/malt/malt_varieties.pdf

District Midwest's Beer Recipes and Food Pairings 

Thanks in large part to our industry's renaissance in the re-discovery and re-creation of numerous beer styles, beer is an immensely versatile beverage. Unlike wine, there is a beer for just about any food! Need proof? Try a glass of wine with your favorite Mexican dish. Or try some wine with Cajun, Thai, Indian, or Chinese cuisine. Try wine with your favorite July 4th barbeque! By contrast, there is a beer for any and all of these differing, classic cuisines. Beer offers a wide and ever-growing range of colors, aromas, flavors, textures, and strengths.

In this section of our web site, you will find beer and appetizers, beer and salads, beer and main courses, and even beer and desserts. Some recipes offered here are intended to be enjoyed with a specific style of beer. Others will be created, using a beer style as one of the recipe ingredients. The recipes will be updated to accommodate the changing seasons...about every two months.

And please…feel free to submit your own "greatest hits" recipes to share. It's all about celebrating the good life with the world's best beverage.
Cheers!

Porter Black Bean Soup

This is a hearty, healthy bean soup will thaw those 2014 Winter "Polar Vortex" evenings.  It takes little time to prepare. The refried beans make the soup much more rich.  The robust porter adds a refined sweetness and rounds out the flavors.  For an even heartier soup, Rick has added either chorizo sausage or ground lamb...both were real crowd pleasers.  Try drinking a porter while you make it!

• 1 TBSP olive oil
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 1/2 cup diced onion
• 1 cup diced carrots
• 2 celery stalks small sliced
• 1cup corn salsa
• 2 cans black beans
• 1can refried black beans
• 1 can chicken stock
• 1 cup robust porter
• 1 TBSP Adobo seasoning
• Salt/pepper to taste

Heat oil, sauté garlic, onion, carrot celery until almost tender.  Add salsa, black beans with liquid, refried beans, stock, and porter.  Season with adobo seasoning.  Simmer until vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes.

Makes 6 hearty servings.

District Midwest Heritage 

​As the MBAA Heritage Chair and our District Midwest Heritage Chair, I am pleased to share with all of you...history in the making!  District Cincinnati has formally changed  its name to "District Midwest".

At our two previous Board of Governors meetings in Portland, Oregon in July 2012, and our most recent meeting in Austin, Texas this past October, much of the dialogue centered upon ensuring value and driving relevance to our membership. Our MBAA Strategic Plan and its accompanying objectives deal with encouraging more participation in our local districts.  Answering this call, many of us in District Cincinnati began discussing the possibility of changing the name of our local district from “District Cincinnati” to, well, something else that would better reflect just who we are.  Over the course of several district meetings, members discussed the pros and cons of the name change. 

The “preservation debate” is rarely, if ever, an easy one.  Our district name-change certainly fits that billing.  Some members were very much opposed to the change, citing the long-standing heritage of Cincinnati and its brewing traditions. We were, after all, one of the original districts present at that first Chicago meeting where our founders formed MBAA in March of 1887, a remarkable claim!  Just a few years ago, we even changed our district emblem to better reflect this.

I reminded our members that, in order to drive relevance and better reflect its purpose, even National MBAA has changed its name three times since 1887!  In like manner, our name change to "District Midwest" also drives relevance and better reflects our purpose. The name is far more inclusionary. It acknowledges and receives with open arms the gifts of the separate brewing heritages of the entire state of Ohio, all of eastern Indiana, and all of northern Kentucky.

The change was agreed upon at our April 6, 2013 district meeting, quite fittingly, at the Morlein Lager House...in downtown Cincinnati.  And...on March 20th, 2014, District Cincinnati officially became District Midwest!  Now we begin a second challenge, that of creating an emblem that properly represents just who we are as a district, while at the same time recognizing our 127 year district history.

This has been a wonderful, "Hands-On-Heritge" experience for all of our members!