brewer

See also: Brewer

English

Etymology

From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew +‎ -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)

Noun

brewer (plural brewers)

2. A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors, usually as part of an alemaking or beermaking process.

   Synonym: brewster (archaic except dialectally)

   Hyponyms: breweress, homebrewer, microbrewer, nanobrewer

   Coordinate terms: underbrewer (a brewer's apprentice), malter, maltster

   His great-grandfather was the brewer for the estate.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

   • 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.

4. A company that brews beer or ale.

   Synonym: brewery

   Hyponyms: macrobrewer, microbrewer, nanobrewer

   Coordinate term: homebrewer

   By that time, Anheuser-Busch was the largest brewer in the region.

Derived terms

• breweress
• brewer's droop
• brewer's yeast
• homebrewer
• macrobrewer
• microbrewer
• nanobrewer
• underbrewer

Related terms

• brewery
• homebrewed

Translations

someone who brews

• Armenian: գարեջրագործ (hy) (gareǰragorc)
• Basque: garagardogile (eu)
• Belarusian: півава́р m (pivavár), півава́рка f (pivavárka)
• Danish: brygger (da) c
• Dutch: brouwer (nl) m
• Finnish: oluenpanija (fi)
• French: brasseur (fr) m, brasseuse (fr) f
• German: Brauer (de) m, Brauerin (de) f, Bierbrauer (de) m (literally “beer brewer”), Bierbrauerin (de) f (literally “beer brewer”)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ζυτοποιός m (zutopoiós)

• Hungarian: sörfőző (hu) (literally “beer brewer”)
• Icelandic: bruggari m
• Irish: bríbhéir m, grúdaire m
• Italian: birraio (it) m, birraia f
• Latvian: aldaris m, aldare f
• Lithuanian: alùdaris m, alùdarė f
• Macedonian: пи́вар m (pívar), пи́варка f (pívarka)
• Māori: kaikōpiro, kaikōpiro waipiro, kaitoroī, kaiwhakai
• Norman: bracheux m (Jersey)
• Persian: بوزاگر (buzâgar)
• Polish: piwowar (pl) m
• Portuguese: cervejeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: berar (ro) m
• Russian: пивова́р (ru) m (pivovár), пивова́рка (ru) f (pivovárka)
• Spanish: cervecero (es) m,
• Swedish: bryggare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: пивова́р (uk) m (pyvovár), пивова́рка f (pyvovárka)
• Welsh: bragwr m

Anagrams

• Werber, rebrew

Middle English

Noun

brewer

1. alternative form of brewere