Definition of "brewmaster" [brewmaster]

• A brewer, especially the head brewer at a microbrewery. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In bigger breweries, the brewmaster is an overseer and the day-to-day task of making beer falls to the brewers."
• "Beer information: A brewmaster is a male brewer of beer, while a brewster is a female brewer of beer."
• "That's what happens when two celebrity chefs open a wildly popular Italian-food wonderland and bring in Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione, a larger-than-life brewmaster with a TV show of his own."