Buffet Tent... Circular requirements?

[CallMeShuri]

I'm certain I'm missing a piece of info or something but I'm not sure how to get this accomplished.

I must bring 5 gold-star burgers and 10 gold-star beers to the Inquisitor. Fair enough. Gold-star beer isn't sold anywhere (I don't have any DLC) so I must make that myself.

1) Hops and hop seeds are only sold by the Miller.
2) I must fix the Miller's mill if I want to trade with him.
3) To do this, I must speak to the Astrologer.
4) The Astrologer wants me to find a family member of his beforehand.
5) Which leads me to the ♥♥♥♥♥ Baron, who wants me to talk to the Inquisitor.
6) The Inquisitor will let me have the Astrologer's family member only if my relationship with the Inquisitor is high enough...
7) ...Which is achieved by hosting Buffet Tent events...
8) ...Which require gold-star beer...
9) ...Which is produced by buying hops and seeds from the Miller.

See where I'm going with this?

Is there something I'm not seeing here? How can I break out of that nasty loop?

[Cryten]

grow your own using seeds. Start with lower grade seeds and use quality fertiliser to get small amounts of higher quality. Also if you have the correct skills you can have chances at better quality beer occurring from silver hops.

Also you do not need to fix the millers windmill to trade with him. And you can boost him with business contracts (or just sell wheat and firewood to him regularly)

[Fargel_Linellar]

Originally posted by Shurikane:

2) I must fix the Miller's mill if I want to trade with him.

This is the step that isn't correct.

Fixing the mill has no impact on the Miller selling you things.
He sell things from the start of the game.

The progress to Tier for any vendor is also not linked with your relation with them, but with how "rich" they are.

In short, to improve a vendor tier, you need to make him richer by a set amount (different for each vendor). Either buy/sell things with him where he make a profit.

[CallMeShuri]

Indeed, it does appear the Miller is trading. Thanks!

Not sure where I got the memory that he wouldn't open up until I fixed the mill, but at least now I'm growing hops.