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 ison requiredHellHold you must build a proper barrel for manythis; recipesa toplain reachvanilla fullMinecraft quality.

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Aare small sign-barreltwo —kinds aof smallbuilt stackbarrel. Both are made of wood and registered with a sign reading— the only real difference is size.

Small barrel

A compact built barrel — still a real structure, just much smaller than the large one.

Build it from 8 wooden stairs in a barrel shape (see the left of the image above). Place a sign on it and write Barrel on the top line to register it. AHolds large9 barrelbrews — a built wooden structure with more capacity. A vanilla Minecraft barrel block (holds up to 6 brews).

Large barrel

OpenA big walk-up barrel structure for serious aging.

Build it from 16 wooden stairs, 18 wood planks and 5 fences (the fences form the barrel,tap; see the right of the image — it is roughly 4 blocks wide). Place a sign on it and write Barrel on the top line to register it. Holds 27 brews, and once registered you can open it by clicking any of its blocks.

When a barrel is registered you will get a confirmation message in chat. Open it, place your brew inside, close it, and close it. Comecome back later to collectfor the aged result.

Wood & time

• Wood type matters. Each recipe calls for a specific wood — oak, birch, spruce, dark oak, acacia, and so on.on — and you get it from the wood you build the barrel out of. The wrong wood changes the outcome.outcome, so build a barrel of each wood you brew with.
• Aging is measured in "years." On our server,HellHold, 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 — evenseal whenyour brew in the chunksbarrel areand notgo loaded.do something else. Just remember which barrel holds what!