District Philadelphia

Welcome to District Philadelphia. We are a diverse and historic district, ranging from one of America's oldest breweries to some of the newest and most innovative breweries and brewpubs on the East Coast. District Philadelphia has a very rich and proud brewing history. And, regardless of the size of the brewery, each of our 250+ members bring a unique perspective and value to our brewing community.

Come Join Us!

Never been to an MBAA meeting? We invite everyone to join us at one of our upcoming events. You'll meet a friendly group of likeminded people who make up the Greater Philadelphia Brewing Community, enjoy some delicious locally crafted ales & lagers, share a tasty meal and listen to a very educational speaker.

Get in Touch with Us

New to the District Philadelphia Community, or just have a question? Our District Officers are excited to meet you, so please feel free to reach out. We look forward to sharing our excitement about the brewing industry with you.

History

Oct. 15, 1903 Western Brewer - Fifteenth Brewmasters' National Convention

List of Delegates: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia; Karl Baer, F.A. Poth & Sons: Louis Erb, Prospect B.C.: Fred Feil, Franz Fendrich, Peter Schem & Son: Theo. Finkenauer, R.H. Gangwisch, Arnholt & Schaefer B.C.: Jos. Geiger, G. Keller B.C.: George Gerngross, G.F. Rothacker B.C., Henry Goehring, Martin Grauer, F.A. Poth & Sons: Wm. Gretz: August Gruenwald, Liebert & Obert: Henry Haeuser, Wm. Hipp, C. Schmidt & Sons B.C.: Albert Hoch, John Hohenadel, Paul Kaiser, Weger Bros.: Valentin Kemmerer, B & E: George Laurer, Spaeth & Hess B.C.: George Lillich, Henry Hess B.C.: Albert Loeble, American B.C.: A. Lorenz, Continental B.C.: John Mauthe, Geo. Esslinger & Son: Charles, John and Joseph Menges, Independent B.C.: Gustav Nessle, Vollmer's Brewery: Franz Ordmann, J.T. Ortlieb, George H. Pabst, Philadelphia B.C.: George Pohlig: A. Raub, Welde & Thomas Brewery: Wm. Reiter, Baltz: L. Ritschel, B.C.S. Brewery: Gustav Rose, Straubmueller Brewery: And. Sauerwein, Peter A. Schemm, Frank Schlegel: Hohenadel Brewery: Jacob Schmalzried: Jno. F. Betz & Son: Karl Schmalzried, Robert Smith Ale B.C.: Gustav Schneider, Chas. Seger: Louis Bergdoll B.C., Chr. Stollsteimer, Clemenz Stolz, Keystone State Brewery: Jos. and George Straubmueller, Frederich Wagner, Andrew Erdrich & Son: Wm. J. Walter, Heimgaertner Brewery: Chr. Walther, B & E, Frank Weger, Geo., Geo. Jr. and Franz, Weisbrod, W & H: Geo. Welde, Wm. Windt, Jno. F. Betz & Son: Louis Winter, W & H: J.J. Wolf, Wiliam Wurster, Fred. Feil Brewery

Guests and Trade Representatives; Chester; S.P. Stevenson, Stevenson Co.: Philadelphia; Wm. H. Burkhardt, The Hauser, Brenner & Fath Co.: John G.M. Bauer, Peter Bernhard, Chas. Betz, Albert Bing, Wm. J. Cunningham, Cunningham Manufacturing Co., Dr. H. Dannenbaum, F.W. Dilks, Lester I. Dingee, Emil Dittmarsch, A.H. Hamrick, Hamrick Tank & Barrel Hard Shell Enamiling Co., Emil Hartmann, Phil. Haibich, Wm. E. Hexamer, The Vilter Manufacturing Co., Chr. Hess, Harry Hess, John M. Hey, M. Hey Mfg. Co., Robert Keller, Wm. F. Koelle, John R. Livesley, Nonpareil Cork Manufacturing Co., Peter Liebert, J.C. Oeters, George F. Ott, Kurt W. Peuckert, Wm. Robson, Pennsylvania Standard Rubber Paint Co., Emil Schaefer, Philip Spaeter, John Spoeth, Robert Tagg, Herman Voigt, Louis H. Wehmeyer, Herman T. Wolf, Otto C. Wolf, Rudolph J. Walther, Charles Theis-Weger.

October 15, 1908 Western Brewer
List of delegates to Twentieth National Convention of the U.S. Brewmasters' Association, 1908. Philadelphia: Otto Schaffhauser, A & S; Wm. Reiter, Baltz; Ludwig Ritschel, B.B.S.; Ch. J. Walther, Val Kemmerer, B & E; Wm. Windt, J. Schmalzried, J.F. Betz B.C.; E.R. Grotefend, Commonwealth B.C.; Julius Leuthy; And. Lorenz, Continental B.C.; George N. Wagner, Andrew Erdrich & Son; John Mauthe, Esslinger; Wm. Wurster, Fred Feil B.C.; G. Gress, Finkenauer; Aug. C. Gruenewald, Henry Hess B.C.; Aug. Gruenewald, L & O; Martin Grauer, F.A. Poth & Sons; Wm. Hipp, Schmidt's; C.J. Schmalzried, Robt. Smith Ale B.C.; L. Winter, F. Weisbrod, W & H; Geo. J. Wolf, Wolf's Brewery.

District Officers

District Board of Governors Representative Benjamin Bailey Troegs Brewing Co	District President Andrew H. Johnston First State Brewing Co	District Vice President David Lee Spector Novonesis	District Secretary Matthew J. Farber Rowan University
District Treasurer Thomas L. Kehoe Yards Brewing Co	District Technical Chair Steve Thompson	District Membership Chair Jason Macias Zuckerman Honickman

Governance

Articles of Incorporation
Signed Application
Philadelphia District Bylaws
F irst Board Meeting
District Operations Manual

Breweries, Distilleries & Companies of District Philadelphia

1787 Brewing Company Hamburg, PA 1787brewingcompany.com	4 Pines Brewing Company Brookvale, NSW, Australia Manly, NSW, Australia Newport, NSW, Australia Torquay, VIC, Australia Coolangata, QLD, Australia Pokolbin, NSW, Australia 4pinesbeer.com.au	Aldus Brewing Co Hanover, PA aldusbrewing.com	Appalachian Brewing Co. Camp Hill, PA Gettysburg, PA Harrisburg, PA abcbrew.com	Artillery Brewing Company West Chester, PA artillerybrewing.com
Beach Time Distilling Lewes, DE beachtimedistilling.com	Blueprint Brewing Co Harleysville, PA blueuprintbrew.com	Bolero Snort Brewery Ridgefield Park, NJ Carlstadt, NJ bolerosnort.com	Bonesaw Brewing Co Glassboro, NJ bonesawbrewing.com	The Boston Beer Company Boston, MA Fogelsville, PA Cincinatti, OH www.bostonbeer.com
Braeloch Brewing Kennett Square, PA braelochbrewing.beer	Brewers of Pennsylvania Lancaster, PA brewersofpa.org	Brewery Thirty-Three Riverton, NJ craftbrewery33.com	Bru Daddy's Brewing Co Allentown, PA brudaddysbrewingcompany.com	Cape May Brewing Co Cape May, NJ Rio Grande, NJ capemaybrewery.com
Cartesian Brewing Philadelphia, PA cartesianbrewing.com	Chatty Monks Brewing Co Reading, PA chattymonks.com	City Brewery Latrobe, PA La Crosse, WI Memphis, TN citybrewery.com	Conshohocken Brewing Co Conshohocken, PA King of Prussia, PA Bridgeport, PA Phoenixville, PA Havertown, PA conshohockenbrewing.com	Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton, DE Rehoboth, DE Lewes, DE Miami, FL www.dogfish.com
Ever Grain Brewing Co Camp Hill, PA evergrainbrewing.com	Evolution Craft Brewing Salisbury, MD evolutioncraftbrewing.com	Flowtrend Rockwell, TX flowtrend.com	Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Cherry Hill, NJ forgottenboardwalk.squarespace.com	Free Will Brewing Company Perkasie, PA Lahaska, PA Souderton, PA freewillbrewing.com
Fruitwood Orchards Honey Monroeville, NJ fruitwoodorchardshoney.com	Funk Brewing Company Emmaus, PA Elizabethtown, PA funkbrewing.com	GearHouse Brewing Co Chambersburg, PA gearhousebrewingco.com	Great Divide Brewing Company Denver, CO Castle Rock, CO greatdivide.com	Groove Brewing Scranton, PA groovebrewing.com
Hartwick College Center for Craft Food and Beverage Oneonta, NY hartwick.edu/about-us/center-for-craft-food-and-beverage	Heavy Seas Beer Halethorpe, MD hsbeer.com	Duquesne Bottling Co. Pittsburgh, PA www.duquesnebeer.com	Fegley’s Brew Works Allentown, PA Bethlehem, PA http://www.thebrewworks.com	Flying Dog Brewery Frederick, MD flyingdogales.com
Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant Newark, DE Wilmington, DE Maple Shade, NJ Chestnut Hill, PA Lancaster, PA Media, PA North Wales, PA Phoenixville, PA West Chester, PA www.ironhillbrewery.com	Lancaster Brewery Co. Lancaster, PA www.lancasterbrewing.com	Otto's Pub & Brewery State College, PA www.ottospubandbrewery.com	Philadelphia Distilling Philadelphia, PA philadelphiadistilling.com	Stoudt Brewing Co. Adamstown, PA www.stoudtsbeer.com
The Lion Brewery, Inc. Wilkes-Barre, PA www.lionbrewery.com	Susquehanna Brewing Co. Pittston, PA www.sbcbeer.com	Triumph Brewery & Restaurant Princeton, NJ Philadelphia, PA New Hope, PA www.triumphbrewing.com	Troegs Brewing Co. Hershey, PA www.troegs.com	Victory Brewing Co Downingtown, PA www.victorybeer.com
Yards Brewing Co. Philadelphia, PA www.yardsbrewing.com	Yuengling Brewery Tampa, FL Pottsville, PA Port Carbon, PA www.yuengling.com

Scholarships for District Philadelphia Members

District Philadelphia will award two (2) educational scholarships for the 2024 calendar year.

The scholarships will cover the cost of tuition (recipients will have to pay for their own travel to and from)

Applicants must chose one (1) of the following two week courses to attend when filing out their application:

Brewery Maintenance Systems Course taking place...

Orientation: May 29, 2024 1:00-2:00 (CT)
Virtual Learning: June 6 - July 25, 2024
In-Person Learning: August 4-9, 2024 (Minneapolis, MN)

Brewing and Malting Science Course taking place...

Virtual Learning: September 5 - October 24, 2024
In-Person Learning: November 3-8, 2024 (Minneapolis, MN)

**Please Be Aware That All Dates & Formats Are Subject To Change**

Scholarship Applications are due by midnight Friday, April 19, 2024

Members are eligible to apply if they meet the following criteria:

Applicant must be a current member of the MBAA.
Applicant must have been a member of the MBAA for a minimum of two (2) consecutive years.
Applicant must posses a minimum of two (2) years of professional brewing or allied trade experience.
Applicants must complete the application form and obtain the endorsement of two (2) MBAA professional members.

Additional application documents needed are as follows:

Professional Résumé.
Letters of endorsement from two (2) current members in good standing with MBAA.
Contact information for the above-mentioned endorsees.
A short narrative essay addressing the following:

Your experience in the brewing industry
How you came to be involved/interested in brewing
Your brewing career goals
How this scholarship can help you to accomplish these goals
Your special achievements, honors, or recognitions relevant to this scholarship (if any)

MBAA District Philadelphia Scholarship Application 2024.pdf

Scholarship Applications are due by midnight Friday, April 19, 2024.

The scholarship committee will review all of the applications and all applicants will be notified of the decision by April 26, 2024.

Please note nothing can be done to help you out if you miss the deadline. Make sure your application and documents are completed and submitted on time!

Don't miss out on this great opportunity to further your craft, add some serious educational experience to your resume, and network with your fellow industry professionals.

Meeting Photos

Troegs Brewery, Friday November 4, 2011
Hershey, PA
http://www.troegs.com/

Itinerary

4:30 PM Plant Tours
5:30 PM Dinner
6:15 PM Technical Presentation "The Building of the New Troegs Brewery" presented by Troegs owners and staff.
7:00 PM Business Meeting

District Philadelphia member and owner of Troegs brewery, John Troegner in the lobby of the new Troegs brewery in Hershey.	The brewery is equipped with an automated grain removal system.
New 100 barrel brew house.	New 17 barrel “scratch” brew house for experimental brews available in the tasting room.
John Troegner addresses over 100 attendees on the topic of building his new brewery in Hershey.

Victory Brewing Company - Friday July 15, 2011
Downingtown, PA 19335-3040
http://www.victorybeer.com/

Itinerary

4:00 - 5:30 Reception and plant tours.
6:00 Dinner/Social

Whitney Thompson, head of Quality Assurance, led a tour of the brew house.

We held our first summer social meeting at Victory three years ago.

Since then, the brewery has added a "twelve-pak" of 440-barrel outdoor fermenters: four in 2009 and eight more last year.

Fourth generation brewer and former brewmaster at Ortlieb's brewery, Bill Moeller discusses the finer points of brewing with Tech Chair Bob Seaman of Yuengling.

View of the cone bottoms of the "twelve-pak" in the fermentation cellar.

Several retirees were on hand, including Joe Ortlieb (left) seen here with Tom Kehoe of Yards Brewing.

Yuengling Mill Creek Plant - Friday April 15, 2011

Pottsville, PA

http://www.yuengling.com/

Itinerary

5:00-6:30 Plant Tours and Social. Tours will include ongoing fermentation and aging cellar expansions.
6:30-7:00 Dinner $25.00
7:00-7:45 Technical Presentation: "Specialty Malts – How They are Made, Their Characteristics and Uses" By Dave Kuske, Director of Malting Operations, Briess Malting
7:45-8:15 Business Meeting

Specialty Malts – How They are Made, Their Characteristics and Uses.

Tour Group (left to right): Tim Flocco (Yards), Jarrod May (Iron Hill, Media), three unidentified

View of the new ageing cellar, the addition to the left of the silo.

Beautiful neon clock in the conference room at Yuengling's Mill Creek plant

Lion Brewery - Friday, November 5, 2010
Wilkes-Barre, PA

Itinerary

4:00 - 6:00 Hospitality and Plant Tours
6:00 - 6:45 Dinner
6:45 - 7:30 Technical Presentation: “CIP Fundamentals – A Practical Approach to Clean in Place Systems” by Bob Klinetob, AFCO.
7:30 - 8:00 Business Meeting.

There was new equipment to see in the laboratory.	After passing the new keg line, the group moved on to the brew house.
Tech Chair Bob Seaman (right) gives AFCO's Bob Klinetob his speaker's gift after the technical presentation.	Brewing Supervisor Greg Reid conducts the first plant tour.

Yards Brewing Company- Sensory Seminar, Saturday October 15-16, 2010

Itinerary

7 PM – 10 PM Social Meeting. Plant tour and beer are free. We will be ordering out for pizza and sandwiches, pay as you go.

Sensory Seminar
Saturday October 16, 2010

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Gwen Conley and Lauren Salzaar, Technical Sensory Intensive
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Whitney Thompson, Flavor training
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.Break3:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Food and Beer Flavor Panel
5:00 p.m. Happy hour

Speakers
Gwen Conley
QA / Sensory Manager
Flying Dog Brewery Frederick, MD. Gwen is the QA/ Sensory manager for Flying Dog Brewery, Fredrick, Maryland. She holds a BA in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry, and has had extensive in-house sensory training from the Ball Corporation for food, beverage, and beer. She has also completed wine sensory training through the University of California at Davis. Gwen has been a Biology teacher, Environmental Chemist, Microbiologist for Coors, a Flavor Panel leader at Ball Corporation for 9 years, and has spent the past 2 ½ years as the QA / Sensory Director for Flying Dog Brewery. She judges at GABF, WBC, and NABA and teaches QA for the American Brewer’s Guild. She is active in the MBAA, ASBC, and the BA.

Lauren Salazar
Sensory Specialist
New Belgium Brewing Company Fort Collins, CO. Lauren is the Sensory Specialist and a QA team member at New Belgium Brewing Company, where she has been employed for over thirteen years and sensory-focused for over twelve. She developed the sensory program from a basic production check to its present program and is responsible for all facets from design to implementation to re-engineering. Other areas of interest and fun at the brewery include brewery-wide employee brewing and flavor trainings, new product development, beer and food pairing/beer dinners, multivariate statistics, small/esoteric beer production (Lips of Faith program) and NBB’s oak barrel Blender. Lauren is a judge at the World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival, she is a faculty member of Siebel Institute of Technology has presented and/or taught short courses for the CBC, WBC, AHA, ASBC, MBAA and others conferences and associations with various other acronyms. Salazar received her BSW from the University of Georgia a lifetime ago and holds a Certificate from UC Davis for Applied Sensory Science and Consumer Testing.

Whitney Thompson
Quality Assurance Manager
Victory Brewing Company Downington, PA. Whitney Thompson holds the position of Quality Assurance Manager for Victory Brewing Company, Downingtown, Pennsylvania where her main focuses are fermentation management and quality sensory evaluation. She holds a BS in Biology from Bridgewater College with a focus in microbiology and began her career in the brewing industry as an apprentice for Ernst August Brauhaus in Hannover, Germany. She was formerly a brewer at Victory Brewing Company, a brewer at Troeg’s Brewing Company, Head Brewer for Appalachian Brewing and a lab technician for Starr Hill Brewing in Crozet, Virginia. Whitney is a fully vetted Great American Beer Festival judge, and is active in numerous brewing organizations including MBAA, ASBC, BA, and the IBD in London.

Left to Right: Yards owner Tom Kehoe, Paul Rutherford of Iron Hill Lancaster, Speakers Lauren Salazar from New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, CO and Whitney Thompson of Victory Brewing in Downingtown, PA.	Gwen Conley of Flying Dog Brewing Co. in Frederick MD presenting her portion of the Seminar entitled: "Technical Sensory Intensive."
Toby Foxhill of Yards Brewing manning the taps at the social meeting on Friday.	Flavor Training provided attendees with an opportunity to calibrate their palates using "spiked samples."
Patrick LaZelle of North Country Malting (foreground) enjoys the beer and cheese pairing tutored by Zeke Ferguson of DiBruno Brothers Gourmet Catering Co.

Fegley’s Brew Works - Friday July 16, 2010
Allentown, PA 18101
http://www.thebrewworks.com/allentown-brewworks/

Itinerary

5:30 Reception/Plant Tours
7:00 Buffet
7:30 Panel Discussion: "Philadelphia MBAA District Philadelphia member's technical presentation needs, wants and ideas."

Brett Kintzer (Stoudt Brewing) and Bill Moore (Lancaster Brewing) at the dinner table.	Lewis Thomas (left) conducts a tour of the brew house.
Beau Baden (right), brewer at the Allentown Brew Works fields questions in the cellar where specialty beers are aged in wood. Pictured: John Panasiewicz (Iron Hill), Darrel Matthews (The Lion, Inc.), Larry Horwitz (Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant), Lou Ur	Pictured among the wooden barrels is Lewis Thomas, brewer at Fegley's Bethlehem Brew Works.

Boston Beer Company - Friday, April 16, 2010
Fogelsville, PA
http://www.samueladams.com/

Itinerary

4:00 - 6:00 Hospitality and Plant Tours. Those wishing to take the tour are requested to bring safety (steel-tipped) shoes. If you do not own a pair, toe protectors can be provided.
6:00 - 6:30 Dinner $30
6:30 - 7:15 Technical Presentation: Brew House Material Efficiency (BME) by Phil Davidson, Brewer, Yuengling.
7:15 - 7:30 Break
7:30 - 8:15 Technical Presentation: Packaging Line Design/Troubleshooting: Conveyer Line Speed Calculations by Dan Holmes, Packaging Manager, Yuengling.
8:15 - 8:45 Business Meeting

	Phillip Davidson gave the first technical presentation on Brew House Material Efficiency.
President Joe Frinzi presents a speaker gift to Dan Holmes for his presentation on Conveyor Line Speed Calculations.
	John Geosits (blue helmet) conducted plant tours including a view of the top of the mash mixer


Bill Moore (Lancaster Brewing) and John Bergmann.		Boston Beer Lab Tech Nicole Zuchlinski.
The tour included fermenting and storage cellars.
Over 70 members and guests enjoyed Sam Adams hospitality in the Stein Room.