brew vs intoxicant

brew and intoxicant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brew	Yes	No	Yes	No
intoxicant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, intoxicant is a hypernym of brew; that is, intoxicant is a word with a broader meaning than brew:

brew: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
intoxicant: a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

Other hypernyms of brew include alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant.

brew (noun)	intoxicant (noun)
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling	a drug that can produce a state of intoxication
	a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

brew (adjective)	intoxicant (adjective)
	causing intoxication

brew (verb)	intoxicant (verb)
sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
prepare by brewing