# Quality & Sealing

## Quality
Finished drinks come out **bad, normal, or good** (shown as a star rating). Quality depends on how precisely you matched the recipe at **every** step:
- How long it **fermented** in the cauldron
- Number of **distill runs**
- Barrel **wood type**
- **Years aged**

Each recipe also has a **difficulty** — high-difficulty drinks like absinthe or whiskey demand tight precision, while a simple beer is forgiving.

A finished brew label shows its **name**, **quality stars**, an **alcohol indicator**, and **"Brewed by <name>"** — so a perfectly-aged spirit always carries the name of whoever made it.

## Sealing
**Sealing** locks a brew in its current state. It is the tool for **shops, trades and gifts** — a sealed brew:

- Becomes **static** — it stops aging and will never change again, so a perfect brew stays perfect forever.
- **Stacks** with other identical sealed brews, making it tidy to store and sell.
- **Hides its exact alcohol %** (it still shows "Alcoholic", just not the number).

### The Brew Sealing Table
Sealing is done at a **Brew Sealing Table** — a block you craft yourself. It is its own separate item, **not** a normal smoker, so your ordinary smokers keep working for cooking as usual.

Craft it with **2 glass bottles over 4 wood planks** (any wood):

```
Bottle  Bottle
Plank   Plank
Plank   Plank
```

Place it down and **right-click** it to open the sealer, then drop your brews in — they come out **sealed**.

> Only seal a brew once you are happy with it — sealing is permanent and stops it aging any further.