Definition of Home brew

1. Noun. An alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Home Brew

home-grown
home-loving
home-made
home-making
home-school
home-sickness
home-sicknesses
home-speaking
home-style
home and dry
home and hosed
home appliance
home away from home
home banking
home base
home brew (current term)
home buyer
home care
home care agencies
home care services
home childbirth
home cinema
home cinemas
home computer
home computers
home country
home court
home ec
home economics
home equity

Literary usage of Home brew

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Marion Harland's Complete Cook Book: A Practical and Exhaustive Manual of by Marion Harland (1906)
"THE home brew Tea (hot) First. Never buy poor, cheap tea. It is the dearest in the end, in every sense of* the word, being unwholesome, unpalatable and ..."

2. The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott by Ebenezer Elliott (1876)
"But I read news at second-hand, Nor find it flat and stale ; While Hume's or Hindley's health I drink In home-brew'd ale. My boys and girls delight to see ..."

3. Genetics Testing in the New Millennium: Advances, Standards and Implications edited by Constance A. Morella (2001)
"This rule specifies general controls for the active ingredients - also known as analyte specific reagents(ASRs) - of "home brew" assays. ..."

4. The Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet by Charles Armiger (1830)
"It lengthens out our thread of life, Improves the bard's design, And often stills the tongue of strife— This home-brew'd barley wine. ..."

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