— brewer , n.
/brooh/ , v.t.
1. to make (beer, ale, etc.) by steeping, boiling, and fermenting malt and hops.
2. to make or prepare (a beverage, as tea) by mixing, steeping, soaking, or boiling a solid in water.
3. to concoct, mix, or cook (a beverage or food, esp. one containing unmeasured or unusual ingredients): She brewed a pot of soup from the leftovers.
4. to contrive, plan, or bring about: to brew mischief.
v.i.
5. to make a fermented alcoholic malt beverage, as beer or ale.
6. to boil, steep, soak, or cook: Wait until the tea brews.
7. be brewing , to be forming or gathering; be in preparation: Trouble was brewing.
n.
8. a quantity brewed in a single process.
9. a particular brewing or variety of malt liquor.
10. a hot beverage made by cooking a solid in water, esp. tea or coffee.
11. any concoction, esp. a liquid produced by a mixture of unusual ingredients: a witches' brew.
12. Informal.
a. beer or ale.
b. an individual serving of beer or ale: Let's have a few brews after the game.
[ bef. 900; ME brewen, OE breowan; akin to D brouwen, G brauen, ON brugga ]
Syn. 4. concoct, scheme, plot, devise, hatch, cook up.