Brewing

Make beer, wine and spirits at a fermenter. brew guide prints the steps in order. Coffee, tea and juice are cooked at a kitchen: see help cooking.

Something alcoholic goes through the same steps each time: make a base, load a fermenter, start the ferment, wait, then settle it, age it or run it through a still, and pour it into kegs. A fermenter, a cask, a still and a keg are all things in the room. They are built at a workbench (help furniture) and fixed to a room with install, or a builder places them.

With more than one fermenter in the room, a brew command goes to the one holding your batch, or else to a free one. Add at <fermenter> to name one: brew rack at second fermenter.

brew mash

brew mash <ingredient>
brew mash claim

At a kitchen, turn grain, fruit, honey, mushrooms or tubers into a base for a ferment. brew mash claim collects it when it is done.

brew load

brew load <ingredient>
brew load <ingredient>, <ingredient>
brew load all
brew empty

Put a base, water and a yeast culture into a fermenter that has not started. A fermenter takes one culture and only so much liquid. brew load all puts in every base, water and culture you carry. brew empty takes everything back out.

Example: brew load malted wort, brew water, ale yeast

brew start

brew start

Seal the fermenter and start the ferment. It needs a base, water and a culture, and says what is missing. The batch is done after a number of real hours that depends on the yeast.

brew status

brew status
brew taste

brew status shows the stage, how long is left, what is in the vessel and what you can do next. brew taste takes a little from the vessel and says what it is like so far. The more you brew, the more you can tell from it.

brew add

brew add <herb>

Add a herb or spice to a batch that is working or finished. The same herb gives a different drink depending on when it goes in and how much goes in against the liquid.

brew rack

brew rack
brew rush

brew rack draws the batch off to settle for a few hours, which makes it clearer and smoother. Racked before the ferment is done, it comes out weaker and rougher. brew rush stops a working ferment where it stands, with the same cost.

brew age

brew age
brew age <cask>

Leave a finished batch to age, in the fermenter or in a cask. A batch is best at one point and slowly loses its edge after it. A wooden cask gives the drink wood and loses a little to the air. A clay or glass cask gives nothing and loses almost nothing.

brew fine

brew fine

Dose a finished batch with a fining agent from your hands. It comes out clearer and with less character.

brew distill

brew distill
brew distill claim
brew distill claim narrow
brew distill claim wide

Run a finished batch through a still in the room. It takes some real minutes. brew distill claim collects the run. A narrow cut keeps less and cleaner spirit, and a wide cut keeps more and rougher spirit. Each pass makes the spirit stronger and takes flavor with it, and a batch can only go through so many passes. A batch cannot be bottled or moved while a still is running it.

brew draw

brew draw

Draw a measure of binding spirit off a batch that has been through a still. Perfumers use it (help perfume).

brew fill

brew fill
brew fill <keg>

Pour the finished batch into empty kegs, from the ones you carry or the ones in the room. A batch bigger than the kegs at hand keeps what is left in the vessel for the next keg. Then finish <keg> names and describes it, where it stands or in your hands. Without a keg, nothing is poured.

brew dump

brew dump
brew dump confirm
brew clear

brew dump pours out your whole batch, started or not. brew clear clears out a batch someone left standing for weeks, so the vessel can be used.

brew journal

brew journal
brew save <name>
brew recipes
brew recipe <name>

brew journal lists the styles you have made. brew save <name> keeps how you made the last batch you bottled. brew recipe <name> loads a saved recipe into an empty fermenter from what you carry, and you start it yourself.

For food, see help cooking.
For alchemy, see help alchemy.