Brew vs. Ferment

Brew and Ferment Definitions
Brew
To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
Ferment
An agent, such as an enzyme, bacterium, or fungus, that brings about fermentation.
Brew
To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients
Brew tea.
Ferment
Fermentation.
Brew
To concoct; devise
Brew a plot to overthrow the government.
Ferment
A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development.
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Brew
To make ale or beer as an occupation.
Ferment
An agent that precipitates or is capable of precipitating such a state; a catalyst.
Brew
To be made by boiling or steeping
As the coffee brewed, I paced in the kitchen.
Ferment
To undergo fermentation
Cabbage that has fermented.
Brew
To be imminent; impend
"storms brewing on every frontier" (John Dos Passos).
Ferment
To develop in a turbulent or agitated way; seethe
An idea that was fermenting in his mind for months.
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Brew
A beverage made by brewing.
Ferment
To cause to undergo fermentation
Yeasts ferment sugars.
Brew
A serving of such a beverage.
Ferment
To produce by or as if by fermentation
Ferment the wine in oak barrels.
Hostility that was fermented by envy.
Brew
Something produced as if by brewing; a mix
Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.
Ferment
To make turbulent; excite or agitate
A fiery speech that fermented the crowd.
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Brew
To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
Ferment
To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
Brew
(transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
Ferment
To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
Brew
To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
Ferment
Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
Brew
To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
Ferment
A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
Brew
(transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
Ferment
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
Brew
(intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
Ferment
A catalyst.
Brew
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
Ferment
That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
Brew
To boil or seethe; to cook.
Ferment
Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
The nation is in a ferment.
Brew
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
Ferment
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.
Brew
(slang) A serving of beer.
Ferment
To cause ferment or fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
Brew
A cup of tea.
Ferment
To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
Brew
An overhanging hill or cliff.
Ferment
To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
But finding no redress, ferment and rage.
The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect.
Brew
To boil or seethe; to cook.
Ferment
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
The political ferment produced a new leadership
Social unrest
Brew
To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
Ferment
A substance capable of bringing about fermentation
Brew
To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
Ferment
A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
Brew
To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
Ferment
A chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances
Brew
To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour.
Ferment
Be in an agitated or excited state;
The Middle East is fermenting
Her mind ferments
Brew
To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
Ferment
Work up into agitation or excitement;
Islam is fermenting Africa
Brew
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
Ferment
Cause to undergo fermentation;
We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content
The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats
Brew
Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
Ferment
Go sour or spoil;
The milk has soured
The wine worked
The cream has turned--we have to throw it out
Brew
Prepare by brewing;
People have been brewing beer for thousands of years
Brew
Sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;
The tea is brewing