Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of preparing liquors from malt and hops; the process of extracting a saccharine solution from malted grain and converting that solution into a fermented alcoholic beverage called ale or beer. The process usually followed by the brewer may be divided into eight distinct parts, viz., the grinding of the malt, mashing, boiling, cooling, fermenting, cleansing, racking or vatting, and fining or cleaning.
- n. The quantity brewed at once.
- n. A mixing together.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of brew.
- n. The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
- n. The business or occupation of a brewer.
- n. The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
- n. The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
- n. The quantity brewed at once.
- n. A mixing together.
- n. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
Examples
“A Swedish peace group says it is alarmed at what it calls the brewing arms race in tension-filled parts of the world.”
“There is a new term brewing out there in Internet land that I think describes a lot of my philosophy of homeschooling.”
“But even if you prefer the speed and selection of a pod coffeemaker over a traditional drip machine, the pod coffeemakers we recently tested varied considerably in brewing speed, temperature, cup-size consistency, and other factors.”
“For the urban homesteader (and the backyard recycler) home brewing is quite the scavenge-and celebrate hobby.”
The Huffington Post: Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing
“And if you're an espresso connoisseur, either lower your standards for cappuccino in cafés or plan on brewing better at home, since knowledge of proper brewing is just as scarce as farmers who drink their own beans.”
“I've got a setup for all-grain brewing at home and it takes about six hours to get a batch ready for fermentation.”
“But the price of barley, which is used to make malt, an essential ingredient in brewing, has doubled in the space of a year from 200 to 400 euros per ton on the German market.”
“Grinding coffee beans just prior to brewing is the optimum method for producing a good cup of coffee.”
“If brewing is an art and all art is essentially a running commentary on other art, could one think of beer itself as a form of literary criticism?”
“Some of the enthusiasm for historical brewing comes from the misplaced assumption that what people drank in the days before quality control or geographic competition did not taste like fermented cardboard tinged with nightshade.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘brewing’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Nouns
a component, an aspect, an element, significant growth, transition, hiccups, labour, predecessor, delight, lawsuit, penchant, entrepreneurship and 23 more...
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