home brew

Kitchen-fermented beer

Home brew is beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages made at home rather than commercially.

The term extends to anything homemade or improvised: home-brew software, a home-brew solution to the problem.

As a verb, to home-brew is to make such products: He's been home-brewing since college.

Also spelled homebrew.

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yeast · zymurgy · lager · homebrewing · malting · bathtub gin · fermenter · sanitizer · inebriant · maker movement · barley · bottling · bottle caps · intoxicant · hooch · hops · alcoholic drink · self-sufficiency

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production source

home brewstore-bought

Commercially produced, not homemade

mass-produced · commercial production

distribution and availability

home brewlicensed product

Merchandise with granted rights

draft beer

scale and distribution

home brewmacrobrew

Large-scale brewery product

Budweiser · Coors · Miller

Family

homebrew

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Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG