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Answer for the clue "Fermented drink ", 4 letters:
brew

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Word definitions for brew in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a storm is brewing (= is likely to start soon ) ▪ He could feel that a storm was brewing. home brew COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB up ▪ His face was like something brewed up out of spit and bile. ▪ At lunchtime, ...

Usage examples of brew.

The bartender glanced across the room at Muftak, muttered something under his breath, then grudgingly took the glass and refilled it with the ruby brew.

The air smelled of musky damp fur and baked scales, of nic-i-tain smoke, of space suits that had not been decontaminated in months, and of intoxicants from dozens of different worlds, Reegesk stepped to the bar, ordered a cup of Rydan brew from Wuher the bartender, and scanned the room for a likely customer.

And they teach the serpents there to entwine themselves up on long sticks out of the ground and of the scales of these serpents they brew out a brewage like to mead.

Of these one firm, namely, Messrs Guinness, owning the largest brewery in the world, brewed upwards of two million barrels, paying a sum of, roughly, one million sterling to the revenue.

The light beers in vogue to-day are less alcoholic, more lightly hopped, and more quickly brewed than the beers of the last generation, and in this respect are somewhat less stable and more likely to deteriorate than the latter were.

Mashing is, without a doubt, the most important of the brewing processes, for it is largely in the mash-tun that the character of the beer to be brewed is determined.

The sea-freshened air brought with it the fragrance of jasmine which bloomed alongside the veranda, mingled with the tantalizing aroma of hot, glazed meats, bread, brewed coffee, and tangy fresh fruits that graced the table for the morning meal and presented to Captain Beauchamp as he paused in the doorway a most heavenly scent after long months of sea fare.

The door slammed behind the obese man, and Dora scurried to fetch what Ruark had requested, setting out fruits, bread, and meats, while she brewed a pot of strong tea.

If there was trouble to be brewed, he was the master brewer, and he would see this mixture to its best fermentation.

For a bone-dry planet, Tatooine sure brewed some of the best beverages in the galaxy-expensive, but very tasty.

I got up and went to help Kennie repair the union, while Tom brewed a billy of tea over the fire.

Hule, and he felt a great need for the companionship of people of his own kind with whom he could be completely open, so he made his way directly through the forest to the more or less permanent encampment of a Hulish man named Nabjor who brewed good mead and sold it at a fair price.

He eventually came to the narrow crevice between two large standing boulders where Nabjor had brewed his mead.

Aejys crossed the room to her private liquor cabinet and took out her last two bottles of a rare Faery brewed wine, the best vintage she owned.

This tendency to centralize brewing operations became more and more marked with each succeeding decade.