The Guide to Brewing: Ale/Beer/Wine/Whiskey

The Guide to Brewing: Ale/Beer/Wine/Whiskey

Brewing is a complex and confusing to many players. Here are the steps to help ease your frustration and use at your leisure time. Brewing and Agriculture go hand-in-hand in reducing the costs of buying crops, but you don’t really need Agriculture in order to brew your own casks. I’ll continue to update this as new information/updates come out. Please drink responsibly and don’t be an Alcoholic.

Required Knowledge & Materials:
1. Cooking skill (To Make Beer, Wine, Whiskey)
2. Milling skill (To make Timbers)
3. Carpentry skill (To make Wooden Boards, Wooden Barrels, Casks)
4. Blacksmithing skill (To make Metal Bindings)
5. Agriculture skills (If you want to grow your own crops; See my guides to Agriculture)

Ingredient Recipes Required: Recipes can be bought at any NPC Cooking Merchants; or can be taught by other players.
- Drach Bock Beer Ingredient
- Harvest Wheat Beer Ingredient
- Adelmann Beer Ingredient (This is a special recipe that was awarded to Kickstarter account; However, it can be taught to other players)
- Brittany Ale Ingredient
- Paladis White Wine Ingredient
- Perennial Red Wine Ingredient
- 2 Year Whiskey Ingredient
- 7 Year Whiskey Ingredient
- 25 Year Whiskey Ingredient

Cask Recipes Required: Recipes can be bought at the Dock’s inside the Central Brittany Bank from the Housing Decoration Merchant.
- Beer Cask
- Wine Cask
- Spirits Cask


Crops Required: Barley, Hops, Wheat, (You can find them in most large NPC Cities at the Farmer Merchant in Spite, Etceter, Resolute, Aerie, Bramble, Celestis). Grapes can be found on NPC Cooking Merchants (ie. North gate in Brittany Estates)


Step 1.
Making Barrels (Carpentry Station)
Material required:
1. 10 x Wood Board
2. 3 x Metal Binding
3. 5 x Wax


Step 2.
Making Beer/Wine/Spirits Casks (Carpentry Station)
Material required:
1. 1 x Wood Barrel (You need to make this or buy from other players)
2. 1 x Beer/Wine/Spirits Brewing Symbol (Buy at any NPC Crafting Merchant)
3. 5 x Wax (Buy at any NPC Crafting Merchant)


Step 3a.
Making Beer & Ale Ingredients (Cooking Station)

Drach Bock Beer:
1. 15 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 10 x Hops (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
3. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
4. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)

Harvest Wheat Beer:
1. 5 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 15 x Wheat (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
3. 5 x Hops (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
4. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
5. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)

Edelmann Beer (Not everyone gets this recipe):
1. 18 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 6 x Hops (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
3. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
4. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)

Brittany Ale:
1. 20 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 5 x Hops (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
3. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
4. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)



Step 3b.
Making Wine Ingredients (Cooking Station)

Paladis White Wine:
1. 20 x White Grapes (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 10 x Sack of Sugar (You can buy NPC Cooking Merchant)
3. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
4. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)

Perennial Red Wine:
1. 20 x Red Grapes (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 10 x Sack of Sugar (You can buy NPC Cooking Merchant)
3. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
4. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)


Step 3c.
Making Whiskey Ingredients (Cooking Station)

2 Year Whiskey:
1. 30 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 2 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
3. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)

7 Year Whiskey:
1. 30 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 3 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
3. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)

25 Year Whiskey:
1. 30 x Barley (You can grow, buy from Players, or NPC Farmer Merchant)
2. 5 x Jar of Yeast Culture (You can make or buy from NPC Cooking Merchant)
3. 10 x Bucket of Water (Fetch from water well or buy from NPC Merchant)


Step 4 (Final)

Making Beer/Ale/Wine/Whiskey Casks (Cooking Station)
1. 1 x Beer/Wine/Spirits Cask
2. 1 x Beer/Ale/Wine/Whiskey Ingredient
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MISC:

You can store the full casks in any containers or stack them inside or outside your house and basement. You can not harvest the final products until the casks are matured. Below are the casks mature duration date.

Maturity Duration:
Beer: 3 Earth Days
Ale: 3 Earth Days
Wine: 7 Earth Days
Whiskey: 2 Year = 28 Earth Days; 7 Year = 98 Earth Days; 25 Year = 350 Earth Days

Cost Benefit Analysis:

• Cost & Benefit in Brewing w/ Farming Spreadsheet

• Buy or Make Jar of Yeast Culture?
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• As you can see clearly from the chart, it's better to buy the Jar of Yeast Culture from the NPC's Merchant. While fetching water, farm, and make your own material would save 2 golds per jar, it's not worth it with the farming and cooking extensive time lost.
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• Looks like the 2 gold saved would earned you the overall 350 exp. per seed. So if you have the time to spare, you can grow the Wheat and earn at least 350 exp.
  Exp. Breakdown:
  Sow = 34
  Water = 9
  Water = 9
  Water = 9
  Harvest = 7
  Make 3 x Grains = 120
  Make 3 x Flours = 120
  Make 1 x Jar of Yeast Culture = 42
  Grand Total Exp. = 350 (Without Exceptional Item)

Magical Buff: Coming soon in future release(s)

 

No need to buy cooking recipes they are mostly re-teachable and thus discoverable by putting exact amounts on the crafting station.

 

Good point. I forgot about that.

 

Red grapes

 

Thanks for the proof reading. Fixed.

 

I think you've done well to cover the "what" - what you need, what is involved, what to do.
I'd like to see more of the "why" - ie, making a profit at it - but appreciate with the current state of sell value for brewing that this likely can't be answered at the moment - but mapping out profit per cask, return on investment, etc. would be of interest to me in this sort of guide.

 

I made some. No buffs from that? Why havent they made it the way that now we have only 1 Food and 1 Beverage Buff?
Enough Beverages available for a wide Food + Beverage Buff Combo.

Good Guide!

 

they have mentioned that in future releases "magic" brews with buffs will be added. I believe in the r55 part 1 telethon?

 

Thanks for your input, I will tackle this beast when they finalize the bug/price/exploit. It won't be a easy task

 

Yes, magical buffs are coming in the future release.

Update: From R56 forward, all casks will have the "Brewed by <insert player name>" on the casks. R55 casks will not have that so it would be a collectible item.

 

do you have any numbers on the agriculture ingredients - ie cost to purchase, growth time, resell price if you resold to vendor and good locations? I know some locations only have 1-2 , others are scattered around?

 

Yes, they are in my Agriculture guides. Just click on the links under my signature block and start reading.

 

No brewing agriculture plants numbers in the advanced guide - am I looking in the wrong spot?

 

Thanks for letting me know. I've updated the pricing list to the guide.

 

awesome, thanks

 

Is the alcohol drink sales price still nerfed until this Thursday?

 

Yes, currently it’s in the work. QA server has Beer sell for 2 gold and wine at 3 gold. Price could change before Thursday.

 

Added: Buy or Make Jar of Yeast Culture

 

Added: Cost & Benefit in Brewing w/ Farming Spreadsheet

 

What's the stat us on brewing sell price now?