brewage
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brew
(bro͞o)v. brewed, brew·ing, brews
v.tr.
1. To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
2. To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients: brew tea.
3. To concoct; devise: brew a plot to overthrow the government.
v.intr.
1. To make ale or beer as an occupation.
2. To be made by boiling or steeping: As the coffee brewed, I paced in the kitchen.
3. To be imminent; impend: "storms brewing on every frontier" (John Dos Passos).
n.
1.
a. A beverage made by brewing.
b. A serving of such a beverage.
2. Something produced as if by brewing; a mix: Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.
brew′age n.
brew′er n.
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brewage
(ˈbruːɪdʒ)n
1. (Brewing) a product of brewing; brew
2. (Brewing) the process of brewing
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brew•age
(ˈbru ɪdʒ)n.
a liquor brewed from malt.
[1535–45]
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Brewage
a mixture of various things—Johnson, 1755.Examples: brewage of best Spanish wine, 1848; of tempests, 1821.
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| Noun | 1. |  brewage - drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distillingalcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant - a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" beer - a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops kvass - fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley mead - made of fermented honey and water cassiri - a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice spruce beer - a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt) |
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