Just curious.. why do the two systems use such a different format to more or less do the same thing
ie
Brew <result> item item etc
vs.
Craft item item into <result>
Only answer I can think of is that craft makes it easier to figure out what things you can make where as brew requires you to get the knowledge from somewhere somehow.
Brew also never fails, to my knowledge.
Brew never fails. And several different ingredients may result the same thing with brew. So it is different from the craft in that way.
Brew DOES fail.
It's just very, very, very very very rare.