I ran a 9 and while we cleared it and I only died once. I was struggle-bussing hard. I just passively took massive damage making me need to spam my cds which gost expended quickly.
So this happens.
But that’s where Stagger comes into play. You let yourself sit in the red before staggering it off (the more damage you take in before stagger, the more damage you dismiss).
Edit: Been awhile since i’ve actively played BrM so I can’t get into the finer details of like Fort Brew and Celest Brew
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You got strength/stam chant on chest , fierce armor kit on legs an watchers loam on boots?
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I prefer BrM over WW because we’re harder to kill and still hit pretty hard.
I use my stagger too, probably not correctly but frequently enough so I haven’t really had this problem.
I do have a question though. Did you tank the group or did you queue as dps on your BrM monk?
Brewmaster does have a bit of a learning curve to it.
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Brewmaster is the only tank that actually requires healing from the healer.
If you have a healer who doesn’t know that, and thinks ALL tanks are self-sufficient, then things will be difficult.
P.S.
Brewmaster’s cds are also garbage.
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Probably you’re not bad brew is just hard. Maybe you do guardian druid or like protection paladin both fun and good to do.
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The spec is pretty hardy until probably mid 20s. It could be a rotation issue or you could have taken a few too many active talents instead of passives while learning the spec and you might not be using them effectively.
With two charges of purify, you basically want to be using one whenever it comes off cd and the second charge, usually while learning, in an emergency if you take a huge hit right after. Use celestial whenever you feel like an absorb is needed, like a mini defensive cd.
Obviously it will absorb the most with 10 stacks but unless you can take your entire hp bar in 8 seconds you will probably be wasting celestial cooldowns in lower content as it’s very hard to get into high stagger until higher keys.
Ultimately though, even if your purifies and celestials aren’t 100% efficient, most healers should be able to keep you up during low to high stagger with a few maintenance heals unless you’re bleeding, taking magic dmg or it’s a really big pull.
The dmg rotation at its most basic is just keeping blackout kick and keg smash on cd while mixing in the other stuff. That should be keeping your shuffle passive up by itself (doubles stagger effectiveness).
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As i have played ALL tanks, ( even if not at a high level) it is still true in nearly all content, Brewmaster is for sure a, you need a healer tank, even more so if you are new to it.
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This makes me think you might have been letting shuffle drop? Possibly by trying to heal yourself or cast other things. Which would have taken your stagger % from like 70% to 40% or something.
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Which dungeon also makes a huge difference.
Blackrook Hold, it’s almost all physical, no problem there.
A caster-heavy dungeon like Everbloom… unless your teammates are really on top of constant interrupts of the casters, you’re gonna get ripped to shreds.
BrM used to be the king tank for a good while, I think they just overnerfed it (in usual Blizzard fashion) and now it’s harder to keep in line with other tanks.
Same thing happened with bear druids.
Can’t give a better example. You really got to know your weakness as a tank, just because ONE dungeon you can pull two or three packs, DOES not mean you can in the next, or even the same because the group you play with is ALSO as much as i hate to say it, one of your biggest weakness/strengths.
Yeah, Brewmaster struggles to do what it’s meant to, like others have said. Any tank can be great in the right hands, but BM monk suffers more than the rest.
Brewmaster is the Feral druid of tank specs. Twice or more attention and work put into learning the spec properly only to do what other specs can do with less effort 
I haven’t played Brew yet this season, but as Brewa said, its very damage dependent if you’re going to feel pretty solid or get hammered into the earth.
This may be a hot take but Yu’lon’s Grace helps a surprising amount. (and saves a keybind)
Also, you are 432 ilvl which is a bit undergeared for a tank in +9.
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Go full passive in talents and you can play with less keybinds. Also brews are easily able to tank. It’s the perfect casual tank.
You will not just die from tank busters.
I only advise you to skip Everbloom as everyone is expecting you to pull packs like a dh with 1000 silence sigils
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Is really not, 432 ilv is more than enough for a +9. I guaranteed his problems was not using his cds proactively and using them at half or low hp, basically making them useless and people not using cc/interrupting, they never do at lower keys.
At those lower key I would go with dampen harm, as most of the damage that kills you is going to be big spikes at the beginning of a pull and people not interrupting casters. You can essentially rotated fortifying brew and dampen harm to have something up each pull, using celestial brew to fill in the gaps.
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Honestly I loved Legion Brewmaster towards the end – It felt great.
Since then though … 
Well, yeah. lol
Brewmaster is not bad but most healer makes it look bad because tanks ain’t balanced this expansion.