homebrewed

English edit

Etymology edit

From home +‎ brewed.

Adjective edit

homebrewed (not comparable)

(of a beverage) Brewed at home.
- 1914, Marie Corelli, Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
  The girl made a wry little face. "I don't like beer, Mr. Landon," she said. "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed!
- 2001, John J. Palmer, How to Brew: Ingredients, Methods, Recipes, and Equipment for Brewing Beer at Home, →ISBN, page 136:
  Two common questions are, "How long will a homebrewed beer keep?" and "Will it spoil?" The answer is that homebrewed beer has a fairly long storage life.
- 2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 39:
  She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.
(by extension) Homemade.
- 1985, Jim Richard Campbell, Flyer's guide to ultralights:
  It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section.
- 2014, Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent, Macmillan, →ISBN:
  Bob concocts his own homebrewed version of the fuel by mixing old cooking oil, a small amount of gasoline, methanol from an antifreeze called Heet (found at the auto parts store), and a few gallons of Drano (which contains sodium hydroxide).
- 2016, Dr. Richard Evans, My Summers in West Africa: The Account of a Medical Missionary, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
  Her tribal doctor also gave her some homebrewed powdered medicine, which he mixed in water.

Translations edit

brewed at home

homemade — see homemade

Noun edit

homebrewed (uncountable)

Drink brewed at home.
- 1888, G. Van Hare, Fifty Years of a Showman's Life, Or, The Life and Travels of Van Hare:
  They soon made friends again over a pipe and some homebrewed.
- 1936, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine - Volume 3, page 113:
  And they shook hands on it there and then, and Mr. Lang called for a girl to bring out some homebrewed from the cellar to make a bargain of it.
- 2003, Judith Lansdowne, Just in Time, →ISBN, page 131:
  Because you actually came inside and sat down and are drinking homebrewed with a smile on your face. Because you brought your hound in with you and he's drinking homebrewed as well.

Verb edit

homebrewed

simple past and past participle of homebrew