beerocracy

English

Etymology

From 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.

Related terms

• beerocrat