What's the difference between brew and brewer?

Brew


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To boil or seethe; to cook.
  • (v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
  • (v. t.) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
  • (v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
  • (v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  • (v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
  • (n.) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
  • (2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
  • (3) YEp plasmid stability in the presence of either Saccharomyces cerevisiae laboratory strain 2-microns DNA, or lager brewing yeast 2-microns DNA in the same genetic background, was compared under non-selective culture conditions.
  • (4) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
  • (5) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
  • (6) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
  • (7) Presently a serious disagreement is brewing between the contested president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, over government subsidies.
  • (8) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
  • (9) Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “real” ale (more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK ), the 45-year-old organisation has been enduring an identity crisis, and is looking to its members for a solution .
  • (10) Avery has built its reputation on several well-liked bottled beers and a whole lot more taproom-only brews, usually among Boulder's most adventurous and varied.
  • (11) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
  • (12) This company allows customers to brew their own beer on its premises, rather than having to find space for the equipment at home.
  • (13) Fecundability of 104 healthy women attempting to become pregnant was halved by consumption of the equivalent of 1 cup of brewed coffee or more daily.
  • (14) Keurig Green Mountain, the single-serving coffee magnate, claims that its latest coffee brewing system, Keurig 2.0, “brings consumers more choice than ever”.
  • (15) During holding of coffee brews at elevated temperature, quinide is slowly hydrolysed.
  • (16) Opposition to Obama’s trade agreement has been brewing among congressional Democrats, whose concerns include the protection of US jobs, safe conditions for workers, and currency manipulation.
  • (17) Two preparations of coffee (instant coffee and freeze-dried home-brew coffee) were tested in different mutagenicity assays in germ cells as well as in somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster.
  • (18) Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.48am GMT A tweet from the Australian Financial Review’s political correspondent Phillip Coorey: Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) Thunderstorm brewing over Parl House.
  • (19) A more intensive use of the potential of brewing yeasts in the biotechnological process of brewing is based on the knowledge of the genetic background of these microorganisms.
  • (20) This is why my Twitter and Facebook feeds – which consist mostly of people who brew, sell or drink beer – are scornful when I announce I'm working a one-off shift in the Rose and Crown, in Stoke Newington, north London.

Brewer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (2) In the modified test, shake cultures in Brewer's fluid thioglycolate medium with 0.3% agar added are observed for growth in the anaerobic zone of the tubes.
  • (3) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
  • (4) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
  • (5) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (6) The brewer does not think the pipeline will pay back in less than 20 years, but it appears to be a shrewd commercial move.
  • (7) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
  • (8) Several strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae did not contain hexameric forms although their 22 S aminopeptidase was immunologically indistinguishable from brewer's yeast aminopeptidase.
  • (9) Brewer has complied with standards board orders to apologise but said he had no intention of resigning.
  • (10) In none of the 7 assay systems did human parathyroid hormone-(1-34) synthesized in accord with the sequence of Brewer et al.
  • (11) Cardinals 9 Brewers 5 Bottom 4th: Jonathan Lucroy is up with one out and a runner on.
  • (12) A procedure for the purification of phosphofructokinase from brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces carlsbergensis) is reported.
  • (13) Three Republican Arizona state senators who voted for a bill allowing business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gay people sent a letter to governor Jan Brewer on Monday urging her to veto the legislation.
  • (14) Recently, competing companies have filed lawsuits alleging that the single-serve coffee giant – and its new brewer – are monopolizing the industry.
  • (15) Mike Brewer from the Institute of Fiscal Studies said: "The tax allowance is not limited to people with children, and would even go to pensioners.
  • (16) Braun will miss the Brewers' final 65 games without pay, costing him about $3m of his $8.5m salary.
  • (17) Wheat germ, alfalfa seeds and plant protein mixture resulted in an intermediate incidence of diabetes of 33%; the incidence was lower for Brewer's yeast and lentils (20% and 13%).
  • (18) In a series of simulated blood culture experiments, small inocula of eight different strains of Bacteroides and five strains of anaerobic cocci were added to Difco Thiol broth and Southern Group Brewer's thioglycollate.
  • (19) Other rats received an injection of brewer's yeast to produce fever.
  • (20) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.