Brewing in Project Gorgon lets you create beers, wines, and hard liquors that give temporary buffs when consumed. These drinks also train Alcohol Tolerance, which helps reduce negative effects from drinking. Brewing is a deep crafting skill built around experimentation, ingredient categories, and aging, and no two players will get identical results. If you want combat buffs, social boosts, or long lasting party drinks, Brewing is one of the most flexible trade skills in the game.

How Brewing Works In Project Gorgon

Brewing is a trade skill focused on alcoholic beverages that provide short term stat effects. When you drink alcohol, your Alcohol Tolerance skill increases, letting you handle stronger effects with fewer drawbacks. Every brew uses fixed base ingredients and flexible flavor slots, which is where experimentation comes in.

Each character has their own seeded results, so copying another player recipe will not guarantee the same effects. This makes note taking important if you plan to brew seriously.

Brewing Skill Basics And Trainers

Brewing starts with beer and expands into hard liquor as you level. Trainers unlock recipes, level caps, and higher tier drinks as your friendships increase.

Brianna Willer teaches Brewing after being introduced by Therese and reaching Comfortable
Gretchen Salas teaches Potato Vodka recipes
Hiral teaches Pale Rum recipes
Malvol teaches Whisky recipes
Dhakmar unlocks level caps up to 70 and teaches advanced liquors
A ghost orc beneath Povus unlocks levels 71 to 80
Dunahain Broadarm unlocks levels 81 to 90

Beer, Liquor, And Aging Differences

Beer is quick to make and easy to experiment with. You can brew small batches to test ingredient effects, then scale up to full kegs. Beer does not require aging and is ideal for learning how ingredient slots behave.

Hard liquor is more complex and more potent. Liquor must be aged in barrels inside caves, takes real time to finish, and uses large ingredient sets. The payoff is stronger buffs and longer lasting drinks.

The Core Brewing Formula Explained

Every brewing recipe uses ingredient slots grouped by category rather than exact items. Ingredients in the same category behave differently depending on the recipe.

A basic beer usually includes:

Barley
Hops
Yeast
One or more flexible flavor ingredients

Liquor recipes use a four slot structure that stays consistent across tiers. This allows knowledge from low level liquor to transfer upward, once you understand how ingredients map between tiers.

Experimentation And Ingredient Mapping

The most important brewing mechanic is ingredient mapping. Recipes that use the same number of ingredient choices per slot can share effect patterns.

If two recipes use the same slot counts, ingredient effects can be translated between them. This becomes critical for advanced beers like Orcish Bock and all hard liquors.

Hard liquor recipes all follow the same slot pattern, which means once you discover a useful effect, you can rebuild it across different liquors by learning how ingredients substitute at higher tiers.

Brewing And Alcohol Buff Limits

You can stack multiple alcohol buffs at once.

Up to 3 beers or wines
Up to 1 hard liquor

This allows up to 4 active alcohol buffs at the same time. Alcohol Tolerance helps reduce penalties like hangovers, slurred speech, or passing out.

Aging Casks And Barrels

Hard liquor must be aged in barrels placed in caves. Aging takes between 1 and 3 hours depending on the liquor tier. Aging grants additional experience when complete.

You can age 2 casks at once
At Brewing level 40, you can age 3 casks simultaneously
Aging experience is separate from crafting bonuses

Do not throw away empty barrels or kegs. They can be cleaned and reused, though there is a small chance they break.

Example Early Brewing Recipes

These are examples of how brewing starts and scales. Results and effects will vary by character.

Basic Lager uses barley, hops, yeast, and fruit
Potato Vodka uses fruit, mushroom flakes, animal parts, and herbs
Pale Ale adds mushroom flakes for more complex effects
Marzen introduces stronger flavor interactions
Goblin Ale and Orcish Bock expand ingredient slots further

As levels increase, recipes add more ingredient categories and higher tier materials.

Brewing Synergy Skills

Several skills provide synergy bonuses to Brewing at higher levels.

Alchemy at level 49
Alcohol Tolerance at level 80
Battle Chemistry at level 70
Cooking at level 70

Carpentry helps with barrels and kegs. Gardening supplies barley. Foraging provides many brewing ingredients.

Learn about all of the skills in Project Gorgon here

Is Brewing Worth It

Brewing is one of the most complex and rewarding trade skills in Project Gorgon. It rewards experimentation, organization, and patience. If you enjoy discovering your own buffs, supporting groups, or selling specialty drinks, Brewing offers long term value that few other skills can match.

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