The BREW Fellowship is one of the newer Fellowships within Rotary. It started in California in 2013 with a goal to create an international community of Rotarians who shared a love of beer.

One of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, beer is brewed from cereal grains, most commonly malted barley, but also from wheat, maize (corn) and rice. Historically, the brewing of beer goes back a long time. As almost any cereal containing certain sugars can undergo spontaneous fermentation due air-borne yeasts, it is possible that drinks similar to beer were independently developed throughout the world soon after a tribe or culture had domesticated cereal. China is known to have brewed a type of beer using grapes, honey, hawthorns and rice about 7,000 years BC.