brewer

plural brewers

1. A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors, usually as part of an alemaking or beermaking process.

   His great-grandfather was the brewer for the estate.

   2 more examples

   But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

   2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

   Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.

   2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business

   Synonyms: brewster

2. A company that brews beer or ale.

   By that time, Anheuser-Busch was the largest brewer in the region.

   Synonyms: brewery

plural Brewers

1. ball gamesA player, supporter or other person connected with Burton Albion Football Club.
2. ball gamesA player for the Milwaukee Brewers.

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a brewer of ale.
2. A city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
3. colloquial term for 'Brewer's Phrase and Fable'