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home-brewed

home-brewed

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A drink made at home rather than in a factory, like beer or cider
  • adjective
  • /ˈhoʊmˌbruːd/
translation icon : elaborado en casa
  • Robbie's brought in some of his homemade brewed beer, home brewed beer, home brewed beer.
  • home-brewed beer
  • home-brewed tea
  • a cup of home-brewed

Is it a light, Is it something strong, Is it home brewed?

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Examples

  • Of course, if a local utility charges high enough, a 'home-brewed' solution will always look better.

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  • Alterati is the spot for home-brewed, 100-proof podcasts of the Alterati.com editorial team.

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  • Of course, but I I really get a kick out of this just home brewed, you know, do it yourself kind of approach.

  • Is it a light, is it something strong, is it home brewed, is it Irish, is it Scottish, Italian, German, Dutch?

  • At the same time, people across Africa are drinking up to four times as much cheap home-brewed beer as they are buying in the formal market, Wales estimated.

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  • Home-brewed beer

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  • The farmhouse was decorated with birch boughs; you could have a taste of Papa Mikeli's home-brewed beer.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • In the interview, she was genuinely confounded by the line of questioning and what it had to do with a weekend hobby that includes armor, home-brewed mead, speaking with a really bad accent, and wenching.

    Blog text (27)
  • The name intentionally evokes the unique and local character of a home-cooked meal or a home-brewed beer, and the HUU often took advantage of local experts like Joe, a carpenter and luthier, to help out.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I enjoyed a glass of her homemade, home-brewed kombucha at the picnic.

Synonyms

homemade
vshome-brewed
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Made at home rather than bought from a store

is limited to beverages prepared at home using a brewing process

How Homemade

home-brewed
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Surface Forms

home-brewed positive

Morphology

home-brewed = homebrew (transparent) = home + brew + ed

Formed from the compound 'homebrew' with the adjectival/past-participial suffix '-ed', yielding 'brewed at home' which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Home-brewed comes from home ('at home') and brew ('to make a drink', as when you brew tea or beer), so it gives a clear picture of a drink made in your own kitchen rather than in a factory. That's why home-brewed describes something homemade, often beer or cider, not bought from a shop.