Our History

BREW Inc. is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization that was founded in 1999 by Laura Johnson in Northern Virginia. In the beginning of 2002, BREW Inc. expanded westward, and BREW Midwest was established. In March of 2011, with the blessing of BREW Inc.’s Board of Directors, BREW Midwest began the process to become a separate organization by incorporating in Illinois as Midwest BREW, creating a separate website and applying for a 501(c)3 number. On August 1, 2011, Midwest Beagle Rescue, Education and Welfare (Midwest BREW) was officially launched!

Our numbers grow on a weekly basis. Since we began as BREW Midwest in 2002, and now as Midwest BREW, we have adopted more than 4,000 beagles into loving homes! Midwest BREW is dedicated to rescuing and rehoming beagles in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and we have also placed beagles into loving homes in Minnesota, Iowa, and Kentucky. Our main focus is to assist stray beagles in shelters and animal control facilities whenever possible by bringing them into our program and placing them in one of our foster homes while we work to find a permanent adoptive family. In most cases, without our help, these beagles would otherwise be euthanized.