Brewing can be an immense amount of fun. Ok, the icon is a Pie Tin, but hey, I'm out of pictures... I started because my primary trade skill used to be Smithing, and I thought that some day I might need to make some tempers for the Cultural Armours. As it turns out, I lost my great interest in Smithing after it became apparent that the high end smithed armours are insanely expensive to make, take incredibly high skill to achieve, and I can’t wear any of them. But Brewing had become fun to do, so I kept at it. It also gave me a use for all the foraged Fruit and Veg that I had stored up in the bank.

I have found that the best place by far to brew (at least for me and other accepted races) is the Plane of Knowledge (ok it's good for a lot of things), although the two brew barrels are often taken. If this becomes a problem, you could stock up on ingredients and then book to another zone with a barrel.

For those of you who have never seen a barrel, here it is Pic of Brew Barrel. It’s the big barrel on it’s side on top of a box. These can be found in many zones, usually in or near a pub. If the Plane of Knowledge is not an option for you, then most towns do have a decent stock of brewing ingredients.

Quite a few new brews have been introduced over the last six months or so, and so I thought it was about time to overhaul the mastery route. It's been quite difficult to sort it all into one table (as opposed to the three tables I had before), due to having to take into account the avilability of ingredients that different people might have. For instance, LOTS of brews require you to have access to a LOT of foraged items like vegetables, berries and such. This is fine for us outdoors types, but for other it's just a pain in the arse. Another example could be that a particular town may not have all the regular Barley Hops Malt etc. SO, I have taken a leaf out of the guide I did on poisons, and made a banded table of recipes.

Depending on what materials you have available, I have provided in some cases a choice of brews to make to fill a certain skill level range. Where there is a choice for a certain skill range, these brews have been "blocked" together on the table by a colour band. For instance, at around the 100 or so trivial level, you can make either Vegetable Oil, Paeala Bark Tannin, White Wine, or Red Wine to get to roughly the same skill level, so these are in the same "block". That is why the tables are stripey. Pick whichever recipe from that block you have ingredients available for at the time.

As always, NEVER stack items in the combining container, and NEVER use Summoned or Foraged water, it just won’t work.

Where there is a container mentioned, just throw one of them into the Brew Barrel along with the rest of the ingredients and hit combine. Ie. For Bog Juice put 1 water, 1 Snake Scales and 1 Bottle into the Brew Barrel and combine.

If you are successful you will receive a beverage, and in some cases some empty bottles. If you are unsuccessful your container will be returned to you, and the rest of the items will disappear.

My Mastery Route

Brew	Recipe	Container	Trivial
Malted Milk	1 Malt, 1 Milk	Bottle	26
Fish Wine	1 Fresh Fish, 1 water, 1 Grapes	Bottle	62
Ale	1 Barley, 1 Malt, 1 water	Cask	68
White Wine*	1 Grapes, 1 Wine Yeast, 1 Foraged Fruit	Bottle	82
Red Wine*	1 Grapes, 1 Wine Yeast, 1 Foraged Berries	Bottle	95
Vegetable Oil*	1 Foraged Vegetable, 1 water	-	102
Paeala Bark Tannin**	1 Paeala Bark, 1 water	-	102
Fetid Essence	1 Fishing Grub (***), 1 water	-	122
Ol' Tujim's Fierce Brew	1 Barley, 1 Hops, 1 Malt, 1 Yeast	Cask	135
Double Brewed Double Stout Dwarven Ale***	2 Dwarven Ale, 2 Short Beer	Cask	142
Skull Ale****	Cyclops Skull, 1 Vinegar, 1 Spices, 1 Short Beer	-	151
Faydwer Shaker	1 Elven Wine, 1 Dwarven Ale, 1 Gnomish Spirits, 1 Mead	Cask	188
Minotaur Hero's Brew	3 Malt, 2 water, 2 Short Beer**, 1 Yeast	Cask	248
Brut Champagne*****	3 Grapes, 1 Wine Yeast, 1 Soda Water	Champagne Magnum	>250

And now for some Notes

Vendors

The brewing vendors in the Plane of Knowledge are situated in the main part of the zone with all the shops (ie, not where port stones are). It's the big shop at one end, near the port stone area. There are vendors stood all around the outside of it, and there is a small yard inside the buiding with a Brew barrel (there's another barrel inside one of the shops itself). The two main brewing vendors there are Sirekoth Eshe and the dwarf next to him who's name escapes me at the moment. You can also find water and bottles available on another vendor by the brew barrel.

* These use foraged items. Easier to get now the Bazaar is working, but if you're not a forager, you might want to skip these.

Fetid Essence: This was added a short while ago as part of a pottery recipe. Happily it trivials at 122, and you can now buy Fishing Grubs in bulk in the Plane of Knowledge from a gnome vendor situated outside a shop, called Caden something (dammit, I knew that name earlier - will update when I find him again). Thanks to the many people who wrote in suggesting thig. If yu have access to the Plane of Knowledge this is my favoured route to 122, cos it's cheap and easy.

**Paeala Bark Tannin. This can be bought from one of the vendors I mentioned previously or from Lander Furthers, the brewing vendor in Shadowhaven. It costs roughly 2pp per bark, so it's a bit expensive, but the tannin can be sold back for a reasonable amount, plus Tailors use it so you can sell it to them. Also, the recipe is quick and easy, minimal arseing about, limited stress to the wrist. If you can afford it, do it.

****Skull Ale. If you fancy doing this, get thee hence to South Karana and kill an Undead Cyclops. Nick it's skull and brew with it. The skull is NOT used up during the process.

*****Brut Champagne. This is to get you the last couple of points after Mino's. A relatively simple recipe, aside from needing to brew Soda water (1 Soda, 1 water triv 58. Buy the Soda from Ryver Mudhands in Shadowhaven, if you're not a shorty, then either do the necklace quest, or bribe someone to buy it for you), and the Champagne Magnum. This is made by jewellers, and is trivial at 196 skill. 1 Enchanted Gold Bar, 1 Bottle and 1 Opal in a jewellers kit makes 1 Magnum. This Magnum is NOT returned whether you fail or succeed. When making them, remember to put in the frickin' bottle, or you end up with a necklace instead (/bonk self).
There are three types of Champagne you can make, Sec, Demi-Sec and Brut, using 1, 2 or 3 grapes respectively. Sec and Demisec trivial at 250, and Brut at over 250, so I have chosen Brut to hopefully get the skillups easier. It should be noted however that Demisec Champagne is used in the Protection of the Cabbage Earring quest, so if you make that instead you can sell it on to questors.

Things that you may need

Item	Recipe	Made by	Trivial
Champagne Magnum	1 Enchanted Gold Bar, 1 Opal, 1 Bottle in a Jewellery Kit	Jewellery	196
Corking Device (for special drinks)	1 Cog, 1 Sprocket, 1 Gear, 1 Grease, 1 Blue Diamond, 1 Branch of Sylvan Oak (foraged Eastern Wastes) combined in a Tool Box	Tinkering	<= 173

Things you can make (for other trade skills)

Tempers used in Smithing

Tempers use NO CONTAINER. Just put the ingredients in the Brew Barrel and hit combine.

Temper	Racial Armour Use	Recipe	Trivial
Moonlight	High Elf	1 Morning Dew, 1 Vial of Swirling Mists, 2 Essence of Moonlight	135
Royal	Human Qeynos	1 Rain Water, 1 Griffene Blood, 2 Essence of Sunlight	135
Sea	Human Freeport	1 Saltwater Seaweed, 1 Fish Wine, 2 Mugs of Sea Foam	135
Shadow	Dark Elf	1 Elf Blood, 1 Neriak Nectar, 2 Drops of Essence of Shadows	135
Earthen	Dwarf	1 Dwarven Ale, 1 Lava Rock, 2 Drops of Mercury	135
Scale	Iksar	1 Sarnak Blood, 1 Froglok Blood, 1 Iksar Blood, 1 Bloodwater	135
Frost	Barbarian	1 Brandy, 1 Ice Goblin Blood, 2 Essence of Winter	135
Blood	Ogre	1 Ogre Swill, 1 Elf Blood, 1 Dwarf Blood, 1 Human Blood	135
Combine Acrylia Temper	Acrylia Plate and Chain	1 Crushed Windstone (2 Windstones in a Mortar and Pestle), 1 Vial of Clear Mana, 1 Essence of Wind	-
Black Acrylia Temper	Black Acrylia Weapons	1 Akheva Blood, 1 Vial of Distilled Mana, 1 Essence of Darkness	-

Other things

Item	Recipe	Container	Trivial	Used for
Heady Kiola	2 Packets of Kiola Sap, 1 water	Bottle	46	Tailoring
Heady Paeala	2 Packets of Paeala Sap, 1 water	Bottle	Forgot to look	Tailoring
Paeala Bark Tannin	1 Paeala Bark, 1 water	None	<102	Tailoring
Drake Egg Oil	1 Drake Egg, 1 water	None	?	Tailoring
Cod Oil	1 Cobalt Cod, 1 water	None	?	Tailoring
Snapper Oil	1 Dragon Bay Snapper, 1 water	None	?	Baking
Yew Leaf Tannin	1 Yew Leaf, 1 water	None	?	Tailoring
Acorn Oil	1 Misty Acorn, 1 water	None	?	Tailoring
Oak Bark Tannin	1 Oak Bark, 1 water	None	?	Tailoring