brewage

[ broo-ij ]

noun

1. a fermented liquor brewed from malt.

brewage

/ ˈbruːɪdʒ /

noun

1. a product of brewing; brew
2. the process of brewing

Word History and Origins

Origin of brewage¹

1535–45; brew + -age; modeled on beverage

Example Sentences

This year’s competition will be 100 percent “sewage brewage.”

From Washington Times

This year's competition will be 100 percent "sewage brewage."

From US News

My Brother-in-law, who manufactured it, deserves for such vapid cookery to be named before you without reserve, as the malt-master of this washy brewage.

From Project Gutenberg

Examples of words formed in imitation of these in English itself are blockade, orangeade. -age, ending of abstract nouns, as homage; marks place where, as vicarage;—of English formation, bondage, brewage, parsonage.

From Project Gutenberg

And those two heads o'er the watersheds Of the Thames and Lea do hover, Till a noxious brewage of slime and sewage Is the draught of the water-lover.

From Project Gutenberg