Other forms: breweries
A brewery is a factory where beer is made. Tour the brewery, a local brewery, the brewery closed.
It has four ingredients to work with — water, malt, hops and yeast — and the local water is why particular towns became famous for particular beers. Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery is the standard insult about incompetence.
1nounbreweryA factory where beer is made.
“You can smell the hops from the brewery all over town.”
brewery is a factory.
Brew plus -ery, after Dutch brouwerij. Brew goes back to Old English breowan, from a Germanic root meaning to boil or ferment, and the -ery ending names the place where a trade is carried on.
Dutch
brouwerij — brewery
English, today
brewery
From Dutch brouwerij (“brewery”), equivalent to brew + ery. See also brewhouse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA