BREWER, a city of Penobscot county, Maine, U.S.A., on the east bank of the Penobscot river, opposite Bangor, with which it is connected by ferry and trolley. The population in 1930 was 6,329. At one time it had eight ship-building yards, and formed with Bangor the chief lumber-shipping port of the country Its present industries include a large pulp and paper mill, brick works with an annual output of 2,000,00o to 5,000,000 and a tannery which receives 1,400 dozen sheepskins a week from South America and New Zealand. Brewer was settled in the 18th century, separated from the town of Orrington and incorporated as a town in 1812, and received a city charter in 1889. It was named after its first postmaster, Col. John Brewer.