Brewery

Note: This is part of the version 2.0 update which you may or may not have yet. This wiki often contains information on updates before they arrive.

The brewery is a more profitable and efficient way to supply your bar with alcohol.

Initial Setup

Buy the warehouse from Marvin and have him build all of the necessary components.

Supplies

Hops can be bought from Ruby. Barley can initially be obtained from Ruby until you exhaust her supply. You can then use Farming to obtain a large amount of barley.

Process

-Place the barley bags near the vacuum pipe of the grain silo and press the button near the pump to suck them in.

-Use the computer to move 10% of the silo's barley into the milling machine, which automatically mills and dispenses into the mashing machine. All batches are done in 10% increments.

-Once the mashing machine has finished, use the computer to move the mash to the filtration machine.

-When filtration has finished, move the fluid to the boiler. Hops must be placed into the boiler before or during boiling.

-When boiling is finished, use the computer to send the unfermented beer through the chiller and into the fermentation tank. The fermentation process can take several days depending on the settings you chose, however, the fermentation tank can hold up to 10 batches from the boiler.

-If you have a lager tank, once fermentation is complete, use the computer to send the beer to the lager tank. This tank has the same large capacity as the fermentation tank.

-Once the beer has completed its time in the lager tank, send it to storage, which automatically moves it through the pasteurizer and CO2 modules if you have them installed, and into the storage tank.

Bottling

With beer in the storage tank, buy some boxes of bottles at the Packaging Supplier and load them into the intake chute. Turn on the bottler using the switch at the front of the bottling machine. The machine will combine the bottles and beer from your storage silo and output a box of bottled beer.

Selling

Packaged beer can be sold at your bar, or can be consumed like regular beer.

Calibration

The brewery computer has a setting for each adjustable component within the brewery system. These settings help you increase the quality and value of your beer. There are no instructions on how to find the perfect settings, you have to rely on NPC feedback.

NPC Clues

After completing all or most of an NPC's questline, they will show up at your bar between 6:00pm to 2:00am on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. If your manufactured beer is in stock, some of them will notice a unique imperfection. Nari will complain about carbonation levels until you get the setting perfected. Marvin provides a wide range of feedback. NPCs like Jiggs Casey only drink moonshine. Other NPCs will give you clues on getting each component of your brewery calibrated perfectly.

Fluid Ratios

Beer is produced in batches which fill 10% of the storage/lager/fermentation tanks. If you change your parameters partway through the process, the different flavor profiles will mix, making it difficult to determine what you did wrong and what you did correctly. Flavor profiles get mixed based on the volume of what you're adding vs the volume and attributes you're mixing it with. A good strategy is to isolate your variables with small batches, then start mass producing once you have a good recipe.

Staggering Production

The milling->mashing->filtering->boiling process is quick. The fermentation and lager tanks consume most of the production time. Once the unprocessed beer has advanced to a new stage, you can begin work on an earlier stage.