brewage

American  

[broo-ij] / ˈbru ɪdʒ /

noun

1. a fermented liquor brewed from malt.

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brewage British  

/ ˈbruːɪdʒ /

noun

1. a product of brewing; brew

2. the process of brewing

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Etymology

Origin of brewage

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

Example Sentences

"A far better brewage, madam," I said, "but you must pardon the Staffordshire fashion of serving it."

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

Mr. Glowry, who took the Madeira to be some deadly brewage, gave his promise in dismal panic.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

However, the fact that the theft was discovered soon became painfully evident, for we had a visit from the afterguard in force one afternoon, and Abner with his brewage was haled to the quarter-deck.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.

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.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 by Various