Overview & Equipment

Brewing on HellHold (powered by BreweryX) turns ordinary ingredients into beers, wines, spirits and more. It looks involved at first, but it is really just a short process — and once it clicks, it is simple.

A drink ismoves made inthrough up to four stagessteps. Each step is an action you carry out with a particular tool — butand not every drink uses allevery of them:step:

Step What you do Tool you use 1. CauldronFerment — boilBoil your ingredients in water overCauldron a+ fire.heat source 2. DistillingDistill Purify spirits (spirits only) Brewing stand + blaze powder 3. Age Mature the brew in wood Wooden barrel 4. Drink Enjoy it — runand spiritsfeel throughthe aeffects brewing— stand (skipped for beers,

Beers, wines and meads).meads

Agingskip —distilling. matureSome quick drinks barely age at all. Spirits use the drink in a wooden barrel. Drinking — enjoy it... and deal with the consequences. lot.

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

What you will need

• A cauldron filled with water,water, andover a heat source beneath it (fire, campfire, lava, or a magma block).
• Glass bottles to scoop out the finishedbrew brew.once it has fermented.
• 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 toand checkit tells you how long it has been cooking.boiling.

Each stagestep has its own page in this chapter. New to it?brewing? Start with The CauldronFermenting, then read the Worked Example — Golden Rum to see itall allfour steps in action.