A brew of several things is a mixture of those things. Most cities generate a complex brew of pollutants. a potent brew of smooth salesmanship and amateur psychiatry
To prepare a beverage by allowing boiling water to extract flavor and/or color from certain substances
If a person or company brews beer, they make it. I brew my own beer + brewing brew·ing the brewing of home-made alcohol
If a storm is brewing, large clouds are beginning to form and the sky is becoming dark because there is going to be a storm. We'd seen the storm brewing when we were out in the boat
To use hot liquid to extract flavor out of item being cooked by letting item set in the liquid
To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief
If you brew tea or coffee, you make it by pouring hot water over tea leaves or ground coffee. I'll get Venner to brew some tea
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing"
To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation