brew vs mead

brew and mead both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mead is a hyponym of brew; that is, mead is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than brew:

brew: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
mead: made of fermented honey and water

Other hyponyms of brew include beer, kvass, cassiri, spruce beer.

brew (noun)	mead (noun)
drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling	made of fermented honey and water

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