brew

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
brew/bruː/

▶verb

• 1 make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation.

• 2 make (tea or coffee) by mixing it with hot water.

• 3 (of an unwelcome situation) begin to develop.

▶noun

• 1 a kind of beer.

• 2 informal a drink of tea.

– derivatives
brewer noun.

– origin OE brēowan, of Gmc origin.