Preposition: of

• ale: Among them the brewing of ale in the brew house.

• beer: In vain, Henry VIII tried to stop the brewing of beer through heavy taxation.

Converse of object

• bake: The herring industry used large quantities of fuel, as did baking, brewing and simply keeping warm.

• continue: A consortium was planned to buy the plant from Whitbread and continue brewing there.

• start: They have also started trial brewing at their own Old Bog Brewery.

• feel: Beside, Blue could feel an itch brewing on his rump which he would never be able to reach.

• see: You can see the controversy brewing in rock from the time it began.

Adjective modifier

• traditional: This is the main purpose of malting in traditional beer brewing.

Modifies a noun

• beer: She has survived by brewing beer for the village for the past 12 years.

• yeast: She began her career as a research scientist, studying the genetics and genome of brewing yeast and then plant-pathogen interactions.

• ale: Begin main content: History of brewing Ale was the first beer to be brewed in Great Britain.

• industry: The group began their business to serve the local brewing industry.

• giant: In the late 1960s Fremlins was itself taken over by the brewing giant Whitbread.

• copper: The project involved dry goods handling, mash tuns, brewing coppers and interconnection into the existing whirlpools, together with electrical process control.

Noun used with modifier

• storm: Florida: Is there a storm brewing for holidaymakers next season?

• trouble: Trouble brewing for the Sidmouth folk festival - extracts from an article in the Sidmouth Herald of 17 August 2001.

• beer: A place he points out that was once the biggest beer brewing center in Europe.

• coffee: External safety check, haul the bags up to the forward door and get some coffee brewing.

• row: Related News Stories: Wed 15th Dec 2004: Row brewing over new waste plant go-ahead.

• revolution: Over the past two decades there has been a quiet revolution brewing.