Skill Brewing

The Benefits Brewing by Aesop

The one book on brewing is an excellent guide for learning the skill to near mastery levels. Unlike most skills, this one was one I didn't even bother to put one point into (not even to "prime" the skill!). The same it true for alcohol tolerance, but it would seem the this skill isn't as useful as I thought it might be for a magician-- a few drinks and I've got the intelligence of an ape (and a dumb one at that)! However, I recognize that there are a few very potent elixirs one can mix for warriors (who have little use for intelligence in the heat of battle!) who can benefit much from the bonuses alcohol can give to them at high tolerance levels!

There is at least one recipe I know of for a brew that cannot be found in any tavern in Norrath (to the best of my knowledge!), and I know more will be found eventually. To date, it is not a very profitable skill to have, as the common brews one begins with can be had for far cheaper than they cost to make. This may change at a future date, and perhaps the harder-to-find or otherwise unfindable brews will make it a more profitable undertaking.

Basic Brewing Materials by Niami

You're going to need to locate several things, before you try brewing. First, you need recipes. The book you can buy so far is the "Brewer's Limericks" book. The only location found so far for this is Kaladim. (There is a quest in Halas/Everfrost for more advanced brewing recipes.) Then, you need a brew barrel. These can be found in pretty much every town. They are that odd things that look like a barrel with a hose leading from it to a white trashcan. Then you need containers for the finished product. Casks, bottles and the like can usually be found in inns and taverns. But wait, there's more. That's right - other ingredients. Some recipes will need ingredients that you can purchase at a few select shops in Norrath. Other recipes will requires foraged goodies, or creature loot (rat ears, snake scales and other such yummy stuff).

Ok, you've located everything and are ready to try. Wade through those Brewer's Limericks, try to translate them into the ingredients needed, pop them into the brew barrel, and press combine. (You can also take the easy way out and visit the recipes section of this site for recipes if you don't want to chase books all over.) If you fail, you will get back the bottle/cask, but you will lose all the other ingredients.

Brewing Recipe List

Item	Ingredients	Container	Trivial
Bog juice	water, snake scale	bottle	21
Short Beer	barley, hops, malt	cask	31
Khalish	fruit, vegetables, water	bottle	31
Mead	yeast, hops, malt	cask	40
Honey mead	hops,malt, royal jelly, yeast	cask	41
Heady kiola	Packet of Kiola Sap (x2), water	bottle	46
Short Ale	barley, hops, water	cask	51
Ogre swill	malt, yeast, froglok meat	cask	51
Fish wine	water, grapes, fish	bottle	62
Gypsy wine	grapes, Wine Yeast, fire beetle eye	bottle	68
Ale	barley, malt, water	cask	70
White wine	grapes, Wine Yeast, foraged fruit	bottle	82
Red wine	grapes, Wine Yeast, foraged berries	bottle	95
Gnomish Spirits	rice, spider legs, rat ears	bottle	101
Vodka	Short Beer (x2), water, foraged vegetables	bottle	124
Tumpy's tonic	kiola nut, water	(none)	135
Ol' Tumjim's Fierce Brew	barley, hops, yeast, malt	cask	135
Hulgarsh	2 vodka, water, fishing bait (yields: 3 bottles)	cask	160
Bleeding brain (yields 2)	vodka, spices, fire beetle eye	shotglass	168
Ginesh	vegetables, water, Short Beer	shotglass	168
Elven wine	morning dew, foraged berries, Wine Yeast	bottle	< 168
Faydwer Shaker? (untested on p99)	Dwarven Ale, Elven Wine, Gnomish Spirits, Mead	cask	188?
Minotaur Hero's Brew (yields 1 and 2 bottles)	Malt (x3), Short Beer (x2), 2 Water Flask, Yeast	cask	> 200