From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbrewbrew1 /bruː/ ●○○ verb 1 [transitive]DFD to make beer Every beer on the menu was brewed locally.2 [intransitive]DFD if a drink of tea or coffee is brewing, the taste is getting into the hot water He read the paper while the tea brewed.3 [transitive] to make a drink of tea or coffee freshly brewed coffee4 → be brewing → brew up→ See Verb table
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brew• She let herself in and ministered to their needs, brewing a pot of tea and lighting a good fire.• The pudding went down like a dream, in blessed silence, and Christopher and Francis disappeared to brew coffee.• Health-care bonds anywhere are risky these days, especially with changes brewing in Medicare and Medicaid.• Any wonder that there is a campaign-finance scandal brewing in Washington?• An argument is brewing over the tax cuts.• His face was like something brewed up out of spit and bile.• My next step will be to brew us a pot of chrysanthemum tea.brewbrew2 noun 1 DFD[countable] especially British English a drink that is brewed, especially tea2 [countable, uncountable] American English beer, or a can or glass of beer a cold brew in a frosty glass3 [countable usually singular] a combination of different thingsbrew of The band played a strange brew of rock, jazz, and country music. → home brewExamples from the Corpus
brew• Each brew master was a craftsman with a personalized understanding of how beer should taste.• Earl Grey never seemed such a decent chap, and we laze back to enjoy his brew.• As for the potent brew itself, that won't be ready until Christmas.• A change into dry clothes before gearing up and a quick brew.• Off we went to a rickety bar in Sabinal Mextown and spent an hour sopping up the brew.• In the days when most types of beer were dark, wheat brews were seen as being relatively pale and often cloudy.Origin brew1 Old English breowan 