0 present participle of brew
1 to make beer
[ + two objects ] He brewed us some coffee./He brewed some coffee for us.
2 If an unpleasant situation or a storm is brewing, you feel that it is about to happen:
As the brewing and live music industries gradually came together, bands were always suspicious about the degree of control their patrons could obtain.
And raw sugar, alcohol and molasses are not only exported but sustain important national industries in brewing, distilling, canning and confectionary.
Even the fiscal crisis that had been brewing in the 1970s and had boiled over in the 1980s had apparently been resolved.
The representations of baking and brewing show the distribution of grain and the delivery of bread and beer.
Traders who reached these centers relied on their relatives or fictive kin to provide services such as housing, food, beer brewing and goods storage.
For example, expressions estimating the coffee brewing time can be developed and associated with the coffeemaker grammar rules.
A high degree of variation in single kernel b-glucan content can result in heterogeneous malt, with unpredictable brewing performance.
Company surveys show that few understand the magnitude of this brewing crisis, and fewer still have a strategy to deal with it.