- present participle of brew.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of brewing
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at brew, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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Back in Burton, Al Wall and Emma Cole, brewery manager at Burton Bridge and Heritage Brewing Company, hope to preserve their history and be a "bastion of independence".
From BBC • May 25, 2026
AleSmith Brewing Co. used it in its sold-out Re:Beer, “a crisp, dry-hopped lager.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Scrawled in chalk in the list of draft beers was the Edmund Fitzgerald porter, a longtime brew from the Great Lakes Brewing Co.
From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025
In Crescent City, a remote Northern California harbor town where tsunamis are a way of life, the Tuesday evening barflies gathered at Port O’Pints Brewing Co. were decidedly blasé about the possibility of impending disaster.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025
Brewing and spilling over Miss Cissy and me, we both been thinkin’ that.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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