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brewing

brewing

52 3.5
Making beer by soaking, boiling, and letting yeast turn malt and hops into alcohol
  • noun
  • /ˈbruːɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : elaboración de cerveza
  • The latest trend in brewing showcases a variety of unique flavors and styles that appeal to diverse tastes.
  • brewing beer
  • brewing companies
  • period of brewing

Examples

  • But, boy, in the morning, come 9:30, 10:00 in the morning, you'd smell that coffee brewing.

  • The brewing process of crafting a good stout requires careful timing and quality ingredients.

  • And I really wanna get into brewing beer.

  • I found your love of home brewing...

  • The smell of coffee brewing on the stove was dark and sweet.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • For some 5,000 years, people have been getting a lift from brewing tea leaves.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Then they started doing the craft brewing at, at places like Budweiser.

  • When the cimera is ready, the actual brewing commences, a process that takes an additional two weeks or so.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The newsies see the confrontation brewing, excitement in the air.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The afternoon's events seemed surreal, unable to compete with the ordinary smells of brewing coffee and lemon-scented cleaner.

    Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

beer-making
vsbrewing
1 3.5

The process of making beer at home or in a brewery

describes the technical process in steps using malt hops yeast and fermentation

How Large

brewing
  • Specialized
52 3.5
microbrew
5.0
homebrewing
1 3.9

Surface Forms

brewing singular
brewings plural

Morphology

brewing = brew (transparent) = brew + ing

A standard gerund/nominalization: 'brew' + '-ing' yields the noun meaning 'the process or activity of brewing', which is directly deducible from the verb.

Etymology

Brewing comes from an old English word breowan, which meant 'to boil' or 'to cook in hot water', and you can see the same root in the simple word brew; making beer used to mean boiling grains and water. So brewing still means the process of making beer and similar drinks, starting with that hot, cooking step.