beerocracy

English

Etymology

beer +‎ -ocracy

Noun

beerocracy (uncountable)

  1. Those who control or profit from the brewing of beer.
    • 1856 December, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 681:
      Well, Irenaeus, I now come to what I was going to say when you brought in your panegyric on the beerocracy — a better thing, I grant you, than bureaucracy.
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