Also 4 brewhous, 5 brywhouse, brewhows(e, bruhows, 6 brewehouse. [f. vb.-stem bru- BREW- + HOUSE. Cf. OHG. brû-hûs.] A house or building in which beer is brewed; a brewery.
1373. Test. Ebor., I. 89. Item legavit Roberto de brewhous v marcas.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Milleres T., 3334. In al the toun nas Brewhous ne Tauerne That he ne visited.
1458. Test. Ebor., II. 226. The pantre, botre, kechyn, bakhows, and brewhouse.
1483. Cath. Angl., 45. A Bruhows, pandoxatorium.
1529. Act 21 Hen. VIII., xiii. § 32. No Spiritual Person … shall have, use, or keep any Manner of Brew-house.
1671. F. Philipps, Reg. Necess., 362. A better house than the Brew-house which he could not thrive in at Huntington.
1677. Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 163. You must have a Bake-house and Brew-house of your own.
1797. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 47/1. Mr. Meux’s brewhouse in Liquorpond Street.
1837. Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), I. x. 176. That shall tear down the distilleries and brewhouses.
