单词 | home-brew |
释义 | home-brewv. transitive. To brew (beer, wine, or other alcoholic drink) at home. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [verb (transitive)] brewc893 mash1530 home-brew1771 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 3 The sparkling beveridge, home-brewed from malt of my own making. 1876 W. Hector Sel. Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire ii. 88 The consumpt of ale,—home-brewed from malt and hops, without adulteration from deleterious drugs,—was..very great in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 1900 Good Words Jan. 71/1 For drink they had ale or beer..home-brewed by every farmer from oats and heather. 1952 F. Allen Big Change ii. ix 131 A great many men and women..began to patronize bootleggers, or home-brew very peculiar beer. 2009 T. Heale & W. Wong Tanzania 128 (caption) This beer is home-brewed from a variety of grains, often millet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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