brew

Noun
  1. Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling (synset 107902547)
    is a type of: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant - a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
    subtypes:
    • beer - a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
    • kvass - fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley
    • mead - made of fermented honey and water
    • cassiri - a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice
    • spruce beer - a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)
    same as: brewage
Verb
  1. Prepare by brewing (synset 201667815)
    "people have been brewing beer for thousands of years"
    entail: ferment, sour, turn, work - go sour or spoil
    is a type of: create from raw material, create from raw stuff - make from scratch
  2. Sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor (synset 200328623)
    "the tea is brewing"
    is a type of: imbue, soak - fill, soak, or imbue totally

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