brewage

American

[broo-ij] / ˈbru ɪdʒ /

noun

a fermented liquor brewed from malt.

brewage British

/ ˈbruːɪdʒ /

noun

a product of brewing; brew
the process of brewing

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Etymology

Origin of brewage

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

Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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