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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brewery
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The last big East End brewery had lost its independence.
▪ But the big breweries are supportive.
▪ A number of the big breweries have recently made encouraging moves towards a more sympathetic attitude to their historic pubs.
▪ This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road, capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates.
▪ There to witness the start of this years harvest were representatives of some of the world's biggest breweries.
▪ Even in the eighteenth century excise returns reveal that 12 big London breweries accounted for 25 percent of the national production.
▪ Read in studio Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries.
small
▪ Erdinger Weissbräu also has a recent stake in the town's other, much smaller, brewery.
▪ The book covers more than 70 local small breweries and gives all the pertinent data for each.
▪ The ... The bid comes after a change in the law, which was supposed to protect small breweries like Morland.
▪ The air was scented by the hoppy smell of the small Ridder beer brewery, the only industrial site in view.
▪ This policy preserved the independence of the smaller breweries.
▪ For those not in sync with the latest trends, microbrew is simply beer brewed in small, local breweries.
▪ Brewed by a small independent brewery in Cambridgeshire, Highway has a slightly malty flavour.
▪ There were certain factors which contributed to the survival of the smaller breweries during this period, namely: 1.
■ NOUN
company
▪ To his great credit, he persuaded the brewery companies to accept the principle of independent arbitration.
▪ Many of them usually earn their living by carrying out valuations on behalf of brewery companies.
■ VERB
buy
▪ A family of Wiltshire farmers decided, in 1835, to buy a brewery and chose Chiswick.
▪ The name Alma survived the alterations of 1937 and 1954 until in January 1969 the building was bought by the Whitbread brewery.
▪ I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it.
▪ In 1871 Charrington's bought the Abbey brewery in Burton-on-Trent to brew Burton pale ales for itself.
▪ That year Truman's bought the Phillips brewery in Burton.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was an apprentice electrician at Watneys brewery in Mortlake.
▪ I got in and we followed Hubert to the brewery, where Jack paid for the beer and saw it loaded.
▪ It also acts as a standby in case of breakdown elsewhere in the brewery.
▪ Outside the smell from the brewery hung over the town, stifling as a warm pillow, making it difficult to breathe.
▪ Surely it is time that breweries understood the importance of their Victorian pubs, and turned to conservation rather than mutilation.
▪ The air was scented by the hoppy smell of the small Ridder beer brewery, the only industrial site in view.
▪ There also were 200 beer breweries.
▪ Water power is put to use in various ways throughout the brewery, including the pumping of beer to different tanks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brewery

Brewery \Brew"er*y\, n. A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brewery

1650s (but perhaps from c.1200 as a surname element), from brew (v.) + -ery. Old English had breawern in this sense (from aern "house;" see barn), and brewhouse was the more common word through 18c.

Wiktionary
brewery

n. 1 A building where beer is produced. 2 A company that brews beer.

WordNet
brewery

n. a distillery where beer is brewed

Wikipedia
Brewery

A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of beer has taken place since at least 2500 BC; in ancient Mesopotamia, brewers derived social sanction and divine protection from the goddess Ninkasi. Brewing was initially a cottage industry, with production taking place at home; by the ninth century monasteries and farms would produce beer on a larger scale, selling the excess; and by the eleventh and twelfth centuries larger, dedicated breweries with eight to ten workers were being built.

The diversity of size in breweries is matched by the diversity of processes, degrees of automation, and kinds of beer produced in breweries. A brewery is typically divided into distinct sections, with each section reserved for one part of the brewing process.

Usage examples of "brewery".

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.

Her chief and obsessive concern was to prevent Ivan leaving his fortune and his brewery to my mother and not to herself.

I knew him to be fair-minded and well respected, a middling man who had inherited a modest title from a cousin and a large brewery from his father and had done his best by both.

He simply waited until it stopped ringing and then showed exasperated fatigue when my mother appeared in the doorway to tell him that someone to do with the brewery wanted him.

Company Secretary making Alexander my Alternate Director, which will give him authority to act on my behalf in all business decisions at the brewery, not just my personal affairs, that are covered by the power of attorney.

But there is some doubt as to whether it belongs to the brewery or to Sir Ivan personally and .

Payroll day at the brewery, as in most business enterprises, was Friday.

Somewhat to my dismay he had noticeably good looks, two white socks and a bright white blaze down his nose: great presence as an advertisement for a brewery, not such a good idea for disappearing without trace.

Alternate Director letter which, although much creased by now through having been folded into my shirt pocket for the cross-country expedition, worked its customary suspension of prompt ejection, and, smooth man that he was, he listened courteously to my plea for the workers at the brewery to receive their wages as usual for this present week, and for the pensioners to be paid also, while the insolvency practitioner, Mrs.

There were brewery papers already spread out on the desk: she and Tobias between them had obviously wasted no time.

The second-in-command of the brewery made an exit as unheralded as his entry.

His energy pumps the blood round the brewery, and it is his persistence that makes sure that everything that ought to be done, is done.

He faced unwillingly the whole frightening extent of the plundering of the brewery and approved of the appointment of Margaret Morden as captain of the lifeboat to save the wreck.

You could live in Lambourn in her training stables and manage the brewery in Wantage, only seven miles away.

King Alfred Gold Cup would underpin public faith in the brewery and boost the sales that would generate the income that alone would save the day.