brewage

Definitions of brewage
  1. noun
    drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
    synonyms: brew
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    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)
    draft beer, draught beer
    beer drawn from a keg
    suds
    a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces)
    lager, lager beer
    a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September
    ale
    a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
    metheglin
    spiced or medicated mead
    type of:
    alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant
    a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
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