Brewing Stand

The Brewing Stand brews Beer from 5 Hops and Mead from 5 Honey, each with 5 Water and 10 Fuel, 5 bottles a batch. It is the only place either is made. Two technologies give it, whichever you buy first: Brewing (80 green, after Vineyard) with the beer recipe, or Mead Making (80 green, after Beekeeping) with the mead one. It costs 12 Bricks, 8 Iron Details and 2 Advanced Details, and can only be built in the Vineyard’s cellar.

Crafted here (3)

Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Hops ×5
Water ×5
Fuel ×10
Beer × 5 ( Brewer +3 )
6 6 1
Red Mushroom ×3
Water ×5
Fuel × 10 ( Heat Saver −5 )
Soldier's ale ×5
4 6 1
Honey ×5
Water ×5
Fuel ×10
Mead × 5 ( Brewer +3 )
4 6 1

Notes

  • It burns Fuel, so the cellar needs its own shed. Build the indoor Firewood shed down there; a shed in the yard does not reach it.
  • You brew by hand, 2 energy a step. Mead needs Farming mastery 4, beer 6.
  • The Brewer perk adds 3 bottles to each batch you brew yourself. It goes by whoever works the stand, and a zombie’s own Brewer talent is a different thing (a mastery bonus), so a zombie brews the plain 5.
  • Dismantling it returns half the materials: 6 Bricks, 4 Iron Details and 1 Advanced Detail.
  • Soldier’s ale is brewed here too, not in the kitchen: 3 Red Mushrooms and 5 Water make 5, with 10 Fuel (5 with the Heat Saver perk). The recipe comes from the story, with the guards’ food.