Brew vs. Stew — What's the Difference?

Make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, poultry, sausages, and seafood.

Make (tea or coffee) by mixing it with hot water

To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.

(of an unwelcome event or situation) begin to develop

To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.

A kind of beer

(Informal) To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

A cup or mug of tea or coffee

(Informal) To be in a state of anxiety or agitation.

A mixture of events, people, or things which interact to form a more potent whole

(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.

A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients

(archaic) A brothel.

To concoct; devise

(obsolete) A prostitute.

To make ale or beer as an occupation.

A dish cooked by stewing.

To be made by boiling or steeping

(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

To be imminent; impend

An artificial bed of oysters.

A beverage made by brewing.

(slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

A serving of such a beverage.

(informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.

Something produced as if by brewing; a mix

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

(transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

(transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.

To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.

To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

(transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing

An artificial bed of oysters.

(intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

A brothel; - usually in the plural.

To boil or seethe; to cook.

A prostitute.

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.

A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

(slang) A serving of beer.

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

A cup of tea.

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

An overhanging hill or cliff.

To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

To boil or seethe; to cook.

Agitation resulting from active worry;

To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.

Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.

Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid;

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

Prepare by brewing;

Sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;