Overview & Equipment

Brewing on HellHold (powered by BreweryX) turns ordinary ingredients into beers, wines, spirits and more. A drink is made in up to four stages — but not every drink uses all of them:

1. Cauldron — boil your ingredients in water over a fire.
2. Distilling — run spirits through a brewing stand (skipped for beers, wines and meads).
3. Aging — mature the drink in a wooden barrel.
4. Drinking — enjoy it... and deal with the consequences.

The closer you follow a recipe — exact cook time, distill runs, barrel wood and aging time — the higher the quality of the result. Every finished drink is stamped "Brewed by ".

What you will need

• A cauldron with water, and a heat source beneath it (fire, campfire, lava, or a magma block).
• Glass bottles to scoop out the finished brew.
• A brewing stand + blaze powder — only for spirits that need distilling.
• A barrel of the right wood — a small sign-barrel, a large barrel, or even a vanilla Minecraft barrel.
• A clock (handy) — right-click the cauldron with one to check how long it has been cooking.

Each stage has its own page in this chapter. New to it? Start with The Cauldron, then read the Worked Example — Golden Rum to see it all in action.