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 moves through up to four steps. Each step is an action you carry out with a particular tool — and not every drink uses every step:
| Step | What you do | Tool you use |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ferment | Boil your ingredients in water | Cauldron + heat source |
| 2. Distill | Purify spirits (spirits only) | Brewing stand + blaze powder |
| 3. Age | Mature the brew in wood | |
| 4. Drink | Enjoy it — and feel the effects | — |
Beers, wines and meads skip distilling. Some quick drinks barely age at all. Spirits use the lot.
One fermentation makes a batch of 3 bottles — a full cauldron always fills three, no matter how many ingredients you add. The recipe amounts are for the whole batch, so you do not need to scale production,anything use multiple cauldrons instead of adding more ingredients.up.
The closer you follow a recipe — exact fermenting time, distildistill runs, barrel wood and ageingaging 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, over a heat source (fire, campfire, lava, or a magma block).
- Glass bottles to scoop out the brew — a full cauldron yields 3 bottles per batch.
- A brewing stand + blaze powder — only for spirits that need distilling.
- A built barrel of the right wood — a small
sign-(8 wood stairs) or large (a bigger wood structure) barrel, registered with alargesignbarrel,readingorBarrel.even a vanillaPlain Minecraftbarrel.barrel blocks do not age brews. - A clock (handy) — right-click the cauldron with one and it tells you how long it has been boiling.
Each step has its own page in this chapter. New to brewing? Start with Fermenting, then read the Worked Example — Golden Rum to see all four steps in action.