BREWING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does brewing mean? 

• BREWING (noun)
  The noun BREWING has 1 sense:

1. the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast

  Familiarity information: BREWING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("brewing" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

Domain member category:

decoction mashing; decoction process ((brewing) a process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned)

 Context examples 

The dogs had quarrels among themselves, but these were forgotten when trouble was brewing with White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was mischief brewing among these hot-headed, short-spoken salts, but Captain Foley changed the subject to discuss the new ships which were being built in the French ports.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew there was mischief brewing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mr. Knightley had been telling him something about brewing spruce-beer, and he wanted to put it down; but when he took out his pencil, there was so little lead that he soon cut it all away, and it would not do, so you lent him another, and this was left upon the table as good for nothing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sit there, she said, placing me on the sofa, while we take our things off and get the tea ready; it is another privilege we exercise in our little moorland home—to prepare our own meals when we are so inclined, or when Hannah is baking, brewing, washing, or ironing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet to him, used as he was to a life of such quiet that the failure of a brewing or the altering of an anthem had seemed to be of the deepest import, the quick changing play of the lights and shadows of life was strangely startling and interesting.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That a man whom he had come to regard as a machine for tying cravats and brewing chocolate should suddenly develop fiery human passions was indeed a prodigy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)