Brewing 101 - Blooming Spring Update

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So some of you may be asking, "what happened to brewing? Why can't I place my flowers directly into the keg?"

Brewing got a nerf in this latest content release. James, the developer has been talking about how kegs are too cheap for their value. When the game first came out, kegs were very cheap to make yet produced a highly powerful consumable that also sold for a lot of dink. So the kegs got nerfs with higher costs we see today. In the Spring content release, we saw another nerf in that you have to process your flowers via a pot over a campfire, aka the billy can kit.

You'll first need to get the brewing license from Fletch at the Town Hall. That will unlock the Billy Can Kit in the process. The Billy Can is easy to craft as it's a campfire + tin bar. The logistical supply train now is harvest flowers, put ten into the billy can, wait a while (but less than a day, more on this later) and out pops bottle or wattle tea. You then take that tea and put it into the keg and then wait two days to get brew.

I bet a number of you picked up on the timing in that a keg takes two days to make a brew where a billy can can process multiple teas in the same two days. YOU DO NOT NEED A 1:1 RATIO of Billy Cans to Kegs if you're good on your timing and can process out as many teas as you'll need every two days to feed your kegs.

You can do a 2:1 ratio, where for every two kegs, you have 1 billy can. Just beware that the billy cans can process fruit as well to make jams as well as coffee. Whether these are worth the 10 fruit per jam is up for debate, but that's not for this post to discuss. I went with a 1:1 because I didn't know but learn from my mistake.

Now for some protips on brewing:

Billy Cans look the same from front and back, so you can orient them in two rows to all output in the same direction, allowing you to collect all by running down just one side without sacrificing looks.

Top loading is faster and you can run on top without lighting yourself on fire like the normal campfire. I place one stairs at the front for ease and no jumping necessary for both kegs and billy cans.

The tea is consumable which is a problem for fast loading of kegs as fast clicking sometimes causes you to consume the food you're trying to load into equipment. However, if you eat three things before, like three bush lime, you physically cannot consume anything else. Thus letting you spam your mouse to fast load the kegs without risking drinking a tea.

Ideally, place your wattle/bottle field next to your billy cans and then your kegs next to your bill cans. Flowers - Billy Cans - Kegs for efficient production.

Jelly Brew is still made the same way, with 10 Jelly going right into the keg.

Bottle and Wattle Tea have the same energy/healthy bonuses as the brew, but the brews have better buffs.

Here's my brewery in current operation:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2952678861

Happy Spring Brewing!

[Elriewien]

Oh gosh, thank you for this, I bought the billy can but couldn't figure out how to use it. Admittedly, I'm not very experienced in this game yet, only have the general store and museum moved in.

[kaya]

Originally posted by Elriewien:

Oh gosh, thank you for this, I bought the billy can but couldn't figure out how to use it. Admittedly, I'm not very experienced in this game yet, only have the general store and museum moved in.

That is the reason why i have the yellow manual book, hold it against a workstation and TADAA