Brew drinks by cooking ingredients in a heated cauldron. Depending on the recipe, finish the brew by distilling it, aging it in a barrel, or both. Accurate timing and the right barrel wood affect its quality.
Fill a cauldron with water and place a heat source beneath it. Add the ingredients for your chosen recipe, then use a clock on the cauldron to check how long it has been cooking. Cooking time is measured in real minutes. The cauldron's particles can change color as a brew cooks.
When the cauldron reaches the recipe's cooking time, right-click it with glass bottles to collect the brew. Some drinks are finished at this stage; others need distilling or aging.
For recipes that call for distilling, put the bottled brew in a Brewing Stand and add Glowstone Dust to the top slot as a reusable filter. Each run takes 40 seconds unless the recipe gives a different time. The dust is not consumed; follow the recipe's required number of runs. Some drinks need no distilling.
Put a brew in a barrel when its recipe calls for aging. One Minecraft day counts as one aging year, and the wood type matters for some drinks. A regular Minecraft barrel counts as oak; use a Brewery barrel made from the required wood for other recipes.
A small Brewery barrel has nine slots. Make its barrel shape with eight wooden stairs, then place a sign on the lower-right side and write Barrel on its first line. The stairs' wood determines the barrel type. For a diagram, see the Brewery barrel guide.
A brew's quality can change its name and effects. Drinking raises your drunkenness; at high levels, it can make you stumble and distort your chat. Bread reduces it by 4, and a Milk Bucket by 2. A status message appears after drinking a brew or using either item.
To prepare a brew for a shop, seal it at a Brew Sealing Table, crafted with two glass bottles and four planks. Sealed brews hide their details and cannot be aged or changed afterward. See Player Shops for information about selling items.
Try these recipes to get started. Cooking time is real time; barrel age is measured in Minecraft days. Use the specified wood where listed.
| Brew | Ingredients | Cauldron time | Distilling | Barrel aging |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatbeer | 3 Wheat | 8 min | None | 2 days, Birch |
| Beer | 6 Wheat | 8 min | None | 3 days, any wood |
| Red Wine | 5 Sweet Berries | 5 min | None | 20 days, any wood |
| Mead | 6 Sugar Cane | 3 min | None | 4 days, Oak |
| Apple Cider | 14 Apples | 7 min | None | 3 days, any wood |
| Rum | 18 Sugar Cane | 6 min | 2 runs, 30 seconds each | 14 days, Oak |
| Vodka | 10 Potatoes | 15 min | 3 runs, 40 seconds each | Not required |
| Coffee | 12 Cocoa Beans, 2 Milk Buckets | 2 min | None | Not required |
| Potato Soup | 5 Potatoes, 3 Short Grass | 3 min | None | Not required |
| Eggnog | 5 Eggs, 2 Sugar, 1 Milk Bucket | 2 min | None | 3 days, any wood |