Fromhell +‎brew.

hellbrew (pluralhellbrews)

1. Ahorribleliquidmixture.
   • 1960, Stephen Lister [pen name;Digby George Gerahty],In Search of Paradise, London: Peter Davies,page120:

     The only virtue of tequila, so far as I know, is cheapness. It has no flavour. It stupefies more quickly and more cheaply than anyhellbrew I have yet encountered.

   • 1965 May 26,Punch,page778:

     No one has spoken, and indeed written, more fiercely than I against the farmers who bedew their fields with ingenioushellbrews, neither knowing nor caring whether goldfinches will suffer from the shortage of thistles or foxes gorge themselves on unwholesome wood pigeons.

   • 1980,Alfred Bester,Golem¹⁰⁰, New York, N.Y.:Simon and Schuster,→ISBN,page147:

     While she was heating and churning thehellbrew in a double boiler, her sight began to fade.

   • 1983,Peter De Vries,Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.:Little, Brown and Company,→ISBN,page97:

     “Maybe the stockyards are in Kansas City,” I jabbered, I hardly know why even now. Maybe to imply that the words that had passed since my interjections about Mrs. Clicko’s husband had not actually been spoken, and we had not been catapulted into this littlehellbrew, but were still on safe ground, chatting of this and that.

   • 1990 February, Stewart C. Russell, “Dragon Spirit”, inAmiga Computing,page42:

     DRAGON Spirit – the very name conjures up a cheap Chinesehellbrew, the kind of electric soup which is bought with multiples of “the price of a cup of tea”.

   • 1994 October–December,The Angry Corrie, number20,page13:

     Next, as we breasted a short, steep rise, an area the size of a small football pitch was revealed on the left of the road containing about fifty ponies and traps with attendant ponymen. The ponymen communicated to each other in a savage, barking tongue that defies translation or transcription. The most significant sensory input was olfactory, an unbelievable stench pervaded the environs, it bore only a remote hint of what might be safely classified as horseshit. The rest was ahellbrew, sinkpit, gasping, gagging, ancient dung history of rot and wet and corruption and decay.

   • 2006,Snakes on a Plane: The Complete Quote Book, Harper,→ISBN,page72:

     North American Rattlesnake brings a potenthellbrew of venom to the party.

   • 2015, Viola Carr, “The Art of Making a Point”, inThe Devious Dr. Jekyll, Harper Voyager,→ISBN,page209:

     I smack my lips, elixir rolling in my belly like molten gold. I ditch the empty bottle. Stretch my hungry muscles, pop my neck,crack! I feel … odd, as if my skin don’t fit proper. That shiny pinkhellbrew is playing merry bugfuck with me, my friends, and I won’t stand for it.

2. Ahellishmess.
   • 1934 June 19,Bergen Evening Record, volume XXXX, number12 (total 11478), Hackensack, N.J.,page22:

     But—known only to a handful of Hasbrouck Heights residents—the shadow of her finger thrusts down through a dozen years to stir two lives into ahellbrew.

   • 1936 October 10, John LaFarge, “Fascism or Communism: Which the Greater Danger?”, inAmerica: A Catholic Review of the Week, volume LVI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The America Press,page 4:

     As frequently used, Fascism signifies anything you want, as long as it is not openly favoring Communism. Communists in Toronto call the Quebec Catholic social program “Fascist,” or to be more precise, a Fascist “hellbrew.”

   • 1952 January 30,Punch,page186:

     Cheeryhellbrew of cops, dames, gats and slugging.

   • 1977,Desmond Bagley, chapter 37, inThe Enemy, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published1978,page243:

     He’s the chap who cooked up whateverhellbrew has got loose.

   • 1983,Mary Stewart, “The Witch’s Sons”, inThe Wicked Day, New York, N.Y.:William Morrow and Company, Inc.,→ISBN, section 5,page234:

     So died Morgause, witch-queen of Lothian and Orkney, leaving by her death and its manner anotherhellbrew of trouble for her hated brother.

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