brewery

[ broo-uh-ree, broor-ee ]

noun,plural brew·er·ies.

a building or establishment for brewing beer or other malt liquors, especially the building where the brewing is done.

Origin of brewery

First recorded in 1650–60; brew + -ery

Words Nearby brewery

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How to use brewery in a sentence

"A brewpub is entirely different," Pragnell explains as we finish up at the brewery.
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Will that all change with the rise of a new craft beer brewery?
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The most famous brewery for this style is Cantillon, the last and lone brewery operating solely within Brussels.
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I ask Thierry if his fellow Parisians are really ready for the idea of a hip, urban craft brewery.
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And this community had really adopted us, and we were working in an actual brewery.
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Though without large manufacturing industries, the town has joinery works, a brass and iron foundry, a tannery and brewery.
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I never owned a penny in that Fraserville brewery, for instance; but I've been pointed out as its owner.
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The whole was washed down with excellent ale, obtained from the best brewery in Edinburgh.
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Of the foreign population Germans predominate, probably because of the brewery industry of the American white population.
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Ordered forty kegs from the brewery and hired a fancy mixer to sling together mild snorts, as he called them, for the ladies.
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British Dictionary definitions for brewery

brewery

/ (ˈbrʊərɪ) /

nounplural -eries

a place where beer, ale, etc, is brewed

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