Brew vs. Ferment
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.
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.
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 unrestBrewverb
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 fermentsBrewnoun
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
Fermentverb
work up into agitation or excitement;
Islam is fermenting AfricaBrewverb
prepare by brewing;
people have been brewing beer for thousands of yearsFermentverb
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 vatsBrewverb
sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;
the tea is brewingFermentverb
go sour or spoil;
The milk has souredThe wine workedThe cream has turned--we have to throw it out
