Brewer
noun1
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports A player, supporter or other person connected with Burton Albion Football Club.
2
Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A player for the Milwaukee Brewers.
brewer
nounalso spelled BrewerUK /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/
Etymology From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew + -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.
1
A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors, usually as part of an alemaking or beermaking process.
- His great-grandfather was the brewer for the estate.
- But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
1 more example
- Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
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A company that brews beer or ale.
- By that time, Anheuser-Busch was the largest brewer in the region.
- Derived terms
- breweress, brewer's droop, brewer's yeast, homebrewer, macrobrewer, microbrewer, nanobrewer, underbrewer
- Related terms
- brewery, homebrewed