How to Use home brew in a Sentence

home brew

noun
  • Come for the home brew, stay for the honky-tonk.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The closure leaves the city without a home brew supply store.
    — Caleb Pershan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Cheap gins were vile home brews, made with turpentine and sulfuric acid and sold from rank nooks and cellars.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 23 June 2023
  • Houses were inspected for cleanliness and to check for home brew.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • Coffee connoisseurs will already know that this design will take their home brew to a whole new level (or nine).
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This will prevent problems such as hoarding or making home brew formulas.
    — Steven A. Abrams, Chron, 12 May 2022
  • The festival includes live music, home brews on the patio and shuttle service to and from the grounds.
    — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2019
  • But constant Starbucks runs are really burning a hole in my wallet, so its time to switch to some home brew.
    — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The ultimate homemade weeknight dinner should include a home brew.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Grains and Taps also offers home brew classes and hosts beer-making demonstrations.
    — Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Made with the absolute beginner in mind, this kit gives you all the tools necessary to make quality home brew and learn the craft as well.
    — Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Tickets start at $40 and include craft and home brew samplings, snacks and a commemorative mug.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe the sous vide machine is actually a home brew kit he's used once, or a Smoke Gun, or a Searzall.
    — Marian Bull, GQ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Both brothers worked as architects before switching to beer after a few years of home brewing and operating a home brew store.
    — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Lowe first got into craft beer while studying at Auburn University, where a professor there would home brew.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Her first stop is New Orleans, where public drinking is legal and classic cocktails are preferred over home brews.
    — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Because there are no official Taylor (or Traylor) costumes on the market, Swifties have filled the gap with their home brews.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Consumers are switching to cheaper home brews, alternative drinks or giving up coffee entirely, though some miss the social ritual.
    — Matt Sedensky, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • While bootleg home brews have occasionally been linked to fatalities, this is the deadliest instance reported in years.
    — Laignee Barron, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
  • What’s one common thing that most Oregonians have in their lives (other than a kombucha home brew kit and an OPB membership)?
    — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Matt is the unmotivated everyman with a proficiency in PowerPoint and a love of home brew.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Also popular are small-batch brews with members of a home brew club or another small group bringing their own recipe, brewing it on site and participating in a tapping event to showcase their creation.
    — Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • As always, my formulas are available to all for mixing at home or work, but the commercial products from three manufacturers are for gardeners and contractors who don't like mixing home brews.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
  • As the older Hernán shares a draft of his hallucination-stirring home brew and speaks about his own personal history, Jessica seems to empty herself out.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Whether playing in the official setting thanks to the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount or using them for a home brew game, these miniatures bring these factions to life in vivid color.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Applejack has come a long way from the illicit home brew that — like most moonshine — frequently contained hazardous compounds, like methanol and acetone, that can cause blindness, renal failure and other permanent damage.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Visits in those last days came from members of a local mountain biking club; a home brew club that started there; and couples who met at Benno's or had their first date there — Benno's couples, as Weigel calls them.
    — Bob Dohr, Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2022
  • In 2002, Long, the Local Brewing founder, bought her first home brew kit from the store and eagerly shared bottles of her early brewing efforts with Miller.
    — Caleb Pershan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023

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