brewer's yeast
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- noun
- /ˈbruːərz jiːst/
- Specialized
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levadura de cervecero
- Many home brewers use brewer's yeast for fermentation in making beer.
- brewer's yeast adds
- brewer's yeast and garlic
Examples
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The patties, typically made of corn syrup, soy flour, and brewer's yeast, create another problem.
Academic text (2003) -
" Try brewer's yeast in Trigby's food.
Fiction book (1999) -
And I had to order the brewer's yeast from Amazon.
Blog text (21) -
No brewer's yeast?
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Nan, you wouldn't happen to have any peanut butter and brewer's yeast?
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We had thick brown beers in a dark tavern that smelled like brewer's yeast.
Fiction book (1992) -
Brewer’s yeast.
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I could be her wife, keep house for her, wash and iron her blue cotton scrubs, whip up a lunch of yogurt and banana and brewer's yeast, and pour it in her thermos, lying reading every night till she gets home.
Fiction book (1992) -
Slowly, Warren puts out all the ingredients for a health shake on the counter: wheat germ, oatmeal, one banana, one cup of frozen fruit, milk, one quarter block of tofu, and brewer's yeast.
Fiction book (1996) -
The recipe calls for a tablespoon of brewer's yeast to help the bread rise.
Synonyms
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1.1
A very small living thing used in baking and brewing to make dough rise or ferment drinks
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4.6
A yeast used to turn sugar into gas and alcohol for bread and beer
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A small living thing used in baking to make dough rise
A yeast that rises to the top when beer is made and is used to brew ales
A yeast that sinks to the bottom of a beer tank and makes lager beer
A yeast made of one cell that turns sugar into gas and alcohol in bread and beer
A foamy liquid left after brewing beer that helps bread rise
Surface Forms
Morphology
brewer's + yeast
The phrase is compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'brewer'/'brewer's' (belonging to someone who brews) and 'yeast' (a fermenting fungus) can infer this means the type of yeast used by brewers for beer. The possessive form indicates association rather than an idiomatic shift, and many languages use equivalent literal compounds (e.g. 'levadura de cerveza', 'levure de bière'), making the meaning immediately derivable.
Etymology
Brewer's yeast comes from the simple idea that brewers used this special yeast to make beer. Because this tiny yeast turns sugar into alcohol and bubbles, people began to call it 'brewer's yeast', and that is why the name now means a yeast used for brewing, baking, or as a supplement.