Brew vs. Ferment

Brew vs. Ferment — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Brew and Ferment

Brewverb

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

Fermentverb

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

Brewverb

(transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

Fermentverb

To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

Brewverb

To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

Fermentnoun

Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.

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Brewverb

To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

Fermentnoun

A state of agitation or of turbulent change.

Brewverb

(transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing

Fermentnoun

A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

Brewverb

(intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

Fermentnoun

A catalyst.

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Brewverb

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

Fermentnoun

a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;

the political ferment produced a new leadershipsocial unrest

Brewverb

To boil or seethe; to cook.

Fermentnoun

a substance capable of bringing about fermentation

Brewnoun

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as a cup of tea.

Fermentnoun

a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

Brewnoun

(slang) A beer.

Fermentnoun

a chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances

Brewnoun

A hill.

Fermentverb

be in an agitated or excited state;

The Middle East is fermentingHer mind ferments

Brewnoun

drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

Fermentverb

work up into agitation or excitement;

Islam is fermenting Africa

Brewverb

prepare by brewing;

people have been brewing beer for thousands of years

Fermentverb

cause to undergo fermentation;

We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol contentThe vintner worked the wine in big oak vats

Brewverb

sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;

the tea is brewing

Fermentverb

go sour or spoil;

The milk has souredThe wine workedThe cream has turned--we have to throw it out