Aging

After fermenting (and distilling, for spirits), most good drinks need time to age. The tool is a wooden barrel. Aging develops flavour, smooths the drink, and is required for many recipes to reach full quality.

Barrels

You can age brews in:

• A small sign-barrel — a small stack of wood with a sign reading Barrel on it.
• A large barrel — a built wooden structure with more capacity.
• A vanilla Minecraft barrel block (holds up to 6 brews).

Open the barrel, place your brew inside, and close it. Come back later to collect the aged result.

Wood & time

• Wood type matters. Each recipe calls for a specific wood — oak, birch, spruce, dark oak, acacia, and so on. The wrong wood changes the outcome.
• Aging is measured in "years." On our server, one year is about 20 real minutes or one minecraft day. So a recipe asking for "14 years" needs roughly 4 to 5 hours in the barrel.

Aging happens while you are away — even when the chunks are not loaded.