单词 | home-brewing |
释义 | home-brewingn. The action or practice of brewing beer, wine, or other alcoholic drink at home. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > types of home-brewing1791 1791 D. Stuart Let. 18 Nov. in G. Washington Papers (2000) Presidential Ser. IX. 201 The average produce of..corn is about fifteen bushells..and barley, thirty; tho' the last is chiefly raised for the purposes of home brewing. 1849 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 23 June 387/2 I..am getting rapidly into all the mysteries of home-brewing and baking. 1908 E. R. Emerson Beverages II. v. 103 Home brewing of ol—a native ale—has always been a practice in Scandinavia. 1923 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 109 51/1 To let the Volstead Act stand, and continue..the hideous régime of bootlegging, corruption of officers of the law, illicit home-brewing.., and contemptuous defiance of the law. 1983 Washington Post 6 June b1/5 The whole idea of home-brewing and microbrewing is a reaction against the Budweiserization of America. 2009 J. Struthers Red Sky at Night 263 If you're new to home-brewing you have two options. You can either start off with a kit..or you can enlist the help of an expert home-brewer. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1843 Bristol Mercury 24 June 1/3 The favours conferred on them in the home brewing trade. 1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air I. vi. 117 The meadows, orchard, trout-stream, fish-ponds, barnyard, and granaries of Wilsbury, with their home-brewing, home-baking savours,—constituted in my eyes a little kingdom. 1921 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 15 Jan. 4/2 Two American homes out of five are now provided with stills or home brewing apparatus. 1995 Amer. Brewer Spring 23/1 In Massachusetts, liquor stores are threatening the stand-alone shops by stocking homebrewing supplies. 2001 Independent 13 June ii. 7/2 The items..dusted down again for Father's Day. Yes: gardening gloves, slippers, home-brewing kits and novelty golf memorabilia. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1791 |
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