Brewery is one of many plugins used to enhance the roleplay experience of the server. Through its usage, it is possible for players to create a great number of drinks, tonics, teas and more by combining ingredients in a cauldron. These are not vanilla style potions, and most do not give any beneficial effect, however they are incredibly useful for roleplay purposes and knowledgeable brewers are always in high demand.

To begin brewing you will need a cauldron sitting over a heat source (Lava, magma blocks or fire). Without being heated, your brews will not mix properly. Make sure to fill the cauldron with water! Next, you will need the proper ingredients. While there are many ingredients accepted, most brews use some plant based material.

To put your ingredients in the cauldron you will need to right click while holding the ingredients on the cauldron. Due to an internal bug, it is recommended you hold a shovel or some other tool in your offhand to properly have blocks and plant blocks enter the cauldron. Think of it as your mixing spoon!

Finally, you will need bottles and a clock. Right clicking the cauldron with a clock will tell you how long the cauldron has been brewing. Different brews take time, with harder spirits usually taking more time than weaker drinks.

When you believe it has finished brewing, you may right click the cauldron with your bottles to take your brew out.

FRESH FROM THE POT

While many of our drinks do not require much more work than simply brewing the ingredients together, nearly all of our alcohols do require some additional steps.

Distilling

The first option is distilling. Normally, this would require just a brewing stand with glowstone placed in the ingredient slot. However, on BWRP larger distilleries are necessary to achieve the same effect.

Brews can be distilled once or multiple times. It is up to the brewer to discover what creates the perfect brew.

Aging

Another option is aging. Aging is done in barrels, which are multiblock storages for drinks. Barrels can come in two sizes, large and small and can be made with any wood type.

Different brews can either have a specific barrel to be perfect or can be aged in any barrel.

Brews can be aged, distilled or both. It is up to you to find out which combination creates the best brew!

Tips and Tricks

• Many of our brews use custom items which can be found in themed builds with loot chests. Substitutions for these items will not be accepted. You can tell a custom item from its colored name or lore.
• All brew recipes have three versions, bad, ok, and perfect. To determine what you need to change, place a brew in a barrel and it will color code what you got right and wrong in the different categories.
• Brewed drinks may be placed back in the cauldron. This is used in advanced brewing E.g brandies or cocktails. To use, simply right click a drink on the cauldron to dump it in.

• Many of the brews are similar to each other, with the only difference being ingredients. For example, if you discover a wine it is wise to try other ingredients in similar amounts and cook time. Ratios are also very important, with many brews having a primary ingredient with another ‘spice’ being half or a third of the amount of the primary ingredient.
• Multiple ingredients can go into a brew! However, there are almost never more than 5 different types of ingredients going in. Most sit between 1-3 different types of items.
• If you're unhappy with a brew and want to get rid of it without drinking it or losing your bottle, you can shift right click the bottle on a hopper to drain it.

An Example Brew

To demonstrate how to brew we shall go through the steps of making a simple starter brew!

Aromatic Herbal Tea

First of course you will require a heated cauldron.

Next you will need your tools (Spoon, clock, bottles) and your ingredients (grass). Right click with your ingredients to place them in the cauldron. They will disappear from your inventory and make a sound when going in.

You may now right click with your clock to check its time. Brewery will tell you how long it has been cooking in chat.

A Note on Alchemy

Brewers and alchemists have the ability to gather custom ingredients scattered around the world to make special potions. While everyone has the ability to combine and mix these ingredients to get interesting brews, only the Alchemist has the ability to create the ‘perfected’ version of a potion, which are used in some skills and crafting recipes.

All Alchemical ingredients can be brewed in order to taste them and begin mixing them with other brewed ingredients.

We advise some familiarity with BWRP mechanics and Brewery systems as a whole before attempting alchemy.