Place brewing local tea (8)
I believe the answer is:
allocate
'place' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'brewing local tea' is the wordplay.
'brewing' indicates an anagram.
'local'+'tea'='localtea'
'localtea' is an anagram of 'ALLOCATE'.
(Other definitions for allocate that I've seen before include "Distribute (eg, duties)" , "Assign for a purpose" , "set aside" , "Designate" , "Assign or apportion" .)