brew

/bru/

/bru/

Other forms: brewing; brewed; brews

Definitions of brew

1. verb

   sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
   “the tea is brewing”

   type of:

   imbue, soak

   fill, soak, or imbue totally
2. verb

   prepare by brewing
   “people have been brewing beer for thousands of years”

   type of:

   create from raw material, create from raw stuff

   make from scratch
3. noun

   drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
   synonyms: brewage

   types:

   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)

   draft beer, draught beer

   beer drawn from a keg

   suds

   a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces)

   lager, lager beer

   a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September

   ale

   a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume

   metheglin

   spiced or medicated mead

   type of:

   alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant

   a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent