Practicum In Advanced Alchemy. Brewery bug

[Zorulu]

So i started the quest from Gremist in Skellige and tried to do the brewery part first.
I kill the cyclope, read the notes and pick up the mash.
And when i try to interact with the machine the bug starts.
I can put the mash inside but when i exit that menu im stuck in an animation from geralt.
Hes just stading there in his cinematic and i cant do anything.

I have the Debug Console installed and i tried to teleport away from there when im stuck. Worked but i still cant complete the quest. The mash is in the machine now i lit the fire but i still cant produce the alcohol. It just dosnt work.

Video of the bug: youtu.be/tMPrsWk4SaM

Video of how i tried to solve it and it bugged even more: youtu.be/gQ0oauiOXBw


pls kill me

[Zorulu]

I know i have to extinguish the fire a few seconds after but it still dosnt work. The Quest ist just stuck at this point. I think the Inventory of the machine is somehow bugged and it dosnt recognise the mash inside of it.

[General Malaise]

When I've done it, I've had to find recipe, find mash, put mash in machine, light fire, put out fire, use the two levers, get spirit from machine.

[Zorulu]

If anyone has the same problem then load a save file from before you did anything in this quest after speaking with gremist. Make sure you complete die distillery first before doing any of the 2 other tasks.

[Lemures]

Found a solution.
I had the same issue just now, twice in a row (after adding mash, Geralt is just getting stuck in the animation mode, standing and doing nothing, and this animation is unskippable, you have to kill the game via Task Manager and reopen it again). Interestingly, this time I did exactly the same sequence as on my previous play through of the same quest a few days ago, and then it worked just fine (I had to return and redo it because I found out that there was a Viper silver sword in the HoS ending quest that I didn't know about and now needed to go back a few saves to grab, and then redo the Alchemy quest again).

After running into this bug, I returned to the save in front of the distillery cave, before killing the cyclope, and redid all the steps in what probably was the intended order (killed the cyclope, looted everything on the ground, tried the levers, then went into the hut to find and read the recipe & the log, then went up the ladder to the upper deck to find the mash and loot some more stuff, then proceeded to add the mash). This time the animation actually does something, Geralt said "Done" and you can ignite and heat it. On the cooling step afterwards, through, the levers, for some reason, needed to be engaged twice for the quest log to update (right, left, then another time right, then left) and after that it fills the barrel with the spirit.

[Scotty1675]

Having this issue on PC, and nothing works, tried doing it in every possible order you can. Nothing works..... what the ♥♥♥♥ kind of crap is this?