Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun The quantity brewed at once.
  • noun A mixing together.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
  • noun The quantity brewed at once.
  • noun A mixing together.
  • noun (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of brew.
  • noun The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
  • noun The business or occupation of a brewer.
  • noun The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
  • noun The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast

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Examples

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    english.chosun.com : Total 2010

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  • For the urban homesteader (and the backyard recycler) home brewing is quite the scavenge-and celebrate hobby.

    Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing Jenna Woginrich 2010

  • For the urban homesteader (and the backyard recycler) home brewing is quite the scavenge-and celebrate hobby.

    Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing Jenna Woginrich 2010

  • 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.

    Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico 2009

  • For the urban homesteader (and the backyard recycler) home brewing is quite the scavenge-and celebrate hobby.

    Jenna Woginrich: Green Beer: Homebrewing Jenna Woginrich 2010

  • 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.

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  • 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.

    Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico 2009

  • I've got a setup for all-grain brewing at home and it takes about six hours to get a batch ready for fermentation.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • 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.

    The Beer-Fuel Dilema | Impact Lab 2007

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