BREWAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

Synonyms:

brew; brewage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brewage"):

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))

Derivation:

brew (prepare by brewing)