brewery

UK /ˈbɹuːəɹi/ US /ˈbɹuːəɹi/

noun 2

Definitions

noun

A building where beer is produced.

We took a day trip to the Guiness Brewery.

A company that brews beer.

Mike works for the local brewery.

Collocations

ADJ.

local

VERB + BREWERY

leaves, like, owned, piss-up, smelled, smells

BREWERY + NOUN

beers, premises

PREP.

in, in

Thesaurus

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Idioms & Phrases

couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery

Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent; used to describe someone as greatly incompetent.

“Deladrieux should have stayed an accountant,” Murphy sighed. “He's got three people working for him but they're just administrative clerks, pencil-pushers, they couldn't organise

Example Bank

We took a day trip to the Guiness Brewery.

Wiktionary

Mike works for the local brewery.

Wiktionary

The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.

Tatoeba · #1972

A brewery we finance has made a new sweet sake and brought some to us asking us to try it.

Tatoeba · #326871

St. Louis, Missouri is famous for the Gateway Arch and the Anheuser-Busch Brewery.

Tatoeba · #832924

You couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery!

Tatoeba · #5632667

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