Brewfest 2015 Guide (September 20th - October 6th)

Posted 2015/09/20 at 9:40 AM by perculia

Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brewers have to offer!BrewmasterSwift Brewfest RamToy Box

Brawler's Statue

Mithril Wristwatch

Thousand-Year Pickled Egg

Coren's Cold Chromium Coaster

Bitterest Balebrew Charm

Bubbliest Brightbrew Charm

Brewfest EnthusiastHigh Tinker MekkatorqueVol'jinItems new to 2015 are Stout Alemental, Brewfest Banner, and Steamworks Sausage Grill. Purchasing these 3 items total takes 500 Brewfest Prize Token.

Hate Brew of the Month club? You can cancel it now with the new item Angry Brewfest Letter for 50 Brewfest Prize Token.

Heirloom upgrades can also be purchased with the seasonal currency: Ancient Heirloom Scabbard for 300 Brewfest Prize Token and Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard for 500 Brewfest Prize Token.September 20October 6Brewfest QuestsIntroductory Quests

Welcome to Brewfest!
Available from Tapper Swindlekeg or Ipfelkofer Ironkeg: awards a single brew and opens up the souvenir quest chain.

Chug and Chuck! or Chug and Chuck!: Awards 10 Brewfest Prize Token
Start & End: Bizzle Quicklift or Boxey Boltspinner
This quest is very easy; simply accept the quest, loot a Alcohol-Free Brewfest Sampler from the nearby tables, target Self-Turning and Oscillating Utility Target and use the brew. Do this five times, then turn around and accept your tokens.

Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! or Catch the Wild Wolpertinger!
Start & End: Glodrak Huntsniper or Goldark Snipehunter
For this quest, you must use the provided Wolpertinger Net to capture 5 stunned Wild Wolpertinger, which can be found running around and outside the Brewfest main festival camp grounds. In order to see the Wolpertingers, you must either be incredibly drunk off any alcoholic beverage or wearing the Synthebrew Goggles, available from the questgiver by request. Being simply Tipsy does not count. Turn in the quest to be rewarded with a Wolpertinger of your own, encased in a Wolpertinger's Tankard. Due to restrictions, this is available only on US servers.

Pink Elekks On Parade or Pink Elekks On Parade: Awards 40 Brewfest Prize Token
Start & End: Glodrak Huntsniper or Goldark Snipehunter
For this quest, players must travel to the specified locations (Horde players will have to visit Eversong Woods (Burning Crusade), Mulgore and Tirisfal Glades and Alliance players will have to visit Azuremyst Isle, Elwynn Forest, and Teldrassil) and use the provided Elekk Dispersion Ray to "slay" three pink Elekk hallucinations at each location. In order to see the Elekks, you must either be incredibly drunk off any alcoholic beverage or wearing the Synthebrew Goggles, available from the questgiver by request. Due to restrictions, this is available only on US servers.

Ram Racing QuestsBrewfestPortable Brewfest KegBrewfest Prize Token

Ram Level - Neutral: 50% reduced runspeed. Lose 4 Ram Fatigue every two seconds.

Ram - Trot: 25% mounted increase. Keep the ram at this speed by using Ram Racing Reins every few steps. Lose 2 Ram Fatigue every two seconds.

Ram - Canter: 100% mounted increase. Keep the ram at this speed by using Ram Racing Reins every second. Gain 1 Ram Fatigue every second.

Ram - Gallop: 185% mounted increase. Keep the ram at this speed by spamming Ram Racing Reins. Gain 5 Ram Fatigue every second.

When your ram hits 100 Fatigue, they cannot go any faster and they will be an Exhausted Ram for 15 seconds. Your ram will essentially be RP walking.

Alliance

Horde

Now This is Ram Racing... Almost. or Now This is Ram Racing... Almost.: Does not award tokens, but unlocks the other ram riding dailies.
Start & End: Ram Master Ray or Neill Ramstein
This quest is intended to introduce players to the fine art of ram riding. Upon accepting this quest, Ram Master Ray or Neill Ramstein will mount you upon one of his riding rams and give you the Ram Racing Reins, which you must use to control the speed of your ram. You have to maintain certain speeds for 8 seconds each, which is indicated not only by the movement speed of your ram but by colored buff icons on your player.

Completing this quest also unlocks Now This is Ram Racing... Almost.. This is a short quest that rewards Overflowing Purple Brewfest Stein, but if you already have one from a previous year, you cannot complete the quest due to owning a duplicate item.

There and Back Again or There and Back Again: Awards 10 Brewfest Prize Token
Start & End: Ram Master Ray or Neill Ramstein
This quest is a little challenging. You are once again granted a temporary ram mount that lasts 4 minutes and you must use the Ram Racing Reins and your new-found skill of ram riding to receive and deliver kegs of brew between the goblins. You must travel down the path, minding your speed and fatigue, and you will be thrown a Portable Brewfest Keg by either Bok Dropcertain or Flynn Firebrew. Simply return the keg to the questgiver three times to successfully complete the quest. I highly recommend moving as quickly as possible and stopping momentarily at every barrel of apples to insure you do not reach 100 fatigue. After completing this quest, the questgiver will allow you to help him out one more time per day.

Daily Ram Race: Awards 2 Brewfest Prize Token per turn-in
Start & End: Ram Master Ray or Neill Ramstein
This is a very good option for accumulating more Brewfest Prize Token. This daily quest is available after successfully completing There and Back Again. Simply speak to the NPC again and offer to help him out again. The questgiver will give you another ram with which you must retrieve and return more kegs, awarding 2 Brewfest Prize Token per loop and 30 additional seconds. You can do this as many times as possible until your ram mount expires at 15 minutes.

Daily Quests

Bark for ________!: Awards 15 Brewfest Prize Token
Start & End: Cort Gorestein / Ja'ron or Daran Thunderbrew / Becan Barleybrew
This quest can be started at either of the rivaling breweries and may only be completed for one brewery per day. Horde players can choose between Bark for Drohn's Distillery! or Bark for T'chali's Voodoo Brewery! and Alliance players can choose between Bark for the Barleybrews! or Bark for the Thunderbrews!. It does not matter which brewery you choose to bark for, and you can even choose a different one each day (though don't tell the other guys)! For this quest you are yet again given the ram and Ram Racing Reins: this time you must run throughout your capital city, visiting different designated checkpoints within a 4 minute time limit. This quest can be rather challenging, as there are no apple barrels to renew your ram's fatigue so it's best to keep a steady (albeit annoyingly slow) pace as you travel throughout your city. Once you reach the fourth location, provided your time, many players opt to cancel the ram buff and simply mount on a regular epic mount to go return the quest.

This One Time, When I Was Drunk... or This One Time, When I Was Drunk...: Awards 10 Brewfest Prize Token
Start: Dark Iron Mole Machine Wreckage
End: Bizzle Quicklift or Boxey Boltspinner
This quest can only be picked up after a Dark Iron invasion on the Brewfest camp (every 30 minutes). Simply pick up beer from the nearby kegs and attempt to hit the invading Dark Iron Dwarves until they depart. Once the dwarves have been defeated and retreat, a piece of Dark Iron Mole Machine Wreckage will remain on the ground that anyone can loot to obtain this quest. You can then turn the quest in and receive your tokens.

Brewfest LootLoot OverviewBrewfest Prize TokenBlix FixwidgetBelbi QuikswitchOrgrimmarIronforgeRay'maLarkin Thunderbrew

Item

Cost

Gear

Blix's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles or Belbi's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles

Brew of the Month

"Brew of the Month" Club Membership Form (Alliance or Horde)

Angry Brewfest Letter

Mount Appearance

Limited durationFresh Dwarven Brewfest Hops or Fresh Goblin Brewfest Hops

Limited durationFresh Brewfest Hops

Preserved Brewfest Hops

Toys

Brewfest Pony Keg

Brewfest Keg Pony

Brewfest Banner

Steamworks Sausage Grill

Pandaren Brewpack

Battle Pets

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm

Wolpertinger's Tankard

Stout Alemental

Heirloom Upgrades

Ancient Heirloom Scabbard

Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard

The Brewfest gear is perfect for looking the part of a traditional Bavarian reveler.

The Blix's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles, when equipped, will change everyone you see into a female orc (Horde) or male gnome (Alliance)--dead sexy, right?

The Fresh Brewfest Hops are temporary items that will expire and change your mount into either a Brewfest Kodo (Horde) or Brewfest Ram (Alliance), the Fresh Dwarven Brewfest Hops (available to Horde) will change your mount into a Swift Brewfest Ram and the Fresh Goblin Brewfest Hops (available to Alliance) will change your mount into a Great Brewfest Kodo.

In addition the Brewfest items for sale by the token vendors, there are also a variety of food/drink sellers found in the camps, selling wine, cheese, sausage, bread and (of course) booze to the festival patrons which are covered in the Achievement section.

Brew of the MonthAllianceHorde

January: Wild Winter Pilsner, gives the buff The Beast Within that makes you roar

February: Izzard's Ever Flavor, gives the buff Gassy that makes you burp green smoke

March: Aromatic Honey Brew, gives the buff Honey Touched which summons bees

April: Metok's Bubble Bock, gives the buff Bloated which summons bubbles

May: Springtime Stout, gives the buff Flower Child which covers the ground in flowers

June: Blackrock Lager, gives the buff Internal Combustion which makes you throw up flames

July: Stranglethorn Brew, gives the buff Jungle Madness! which turns things green, creates tribal music, and summons Angry Jungle Gnome

August: Draenic Pale Ale, gives the buff Summon Pink Elekk Guardian which summons pink elekk pets and mounts

September: Binary Brew, lets you learn a new language--01001000 or 1000001

October: Autumnal Acorn Ale, summons woodland creatures (Watched) that either hate you and throw nuts (BOTM - Woodland Brew - Squirrel Hate) or love and follow you around (BOTM - Woodland Brew - Squirrel Love Aura)

November: Bartlett's Bitter Brew, makes you throw up with Nauseous

December: Lord of Frost's Private Label, encases you in an ice block (Chilled)

Angry Brewfest LetterBrewfest Prize TokensBrewfest Prize TokenBrewfest Prize TokenHoliday - Brewfest - Daily - Relay Race - Create Tickets - DNDBrewfest Prize TokenBrewfest Prize TokenBrewfest Prize TokenCoren DirebrewDirebrew's Dire BrewBrewfest GarbBrewfest Prize Token"Brew of the Month" Club Membership FormBrewfest Prize TokenFresh Brewfest HopsBrewfest Prize Token552 Brewfest Prize TokenWolpertinger's TankardCatch the Wild Wolpertinger!Brewfest Prize TokenBrewfest Prize TokenBrewfest Prize TokenBrewfest BannerBrewfest Keg PonyBrewfest Pony KegPandaren BrewpackSteamworks Sausage GrillAngry Brewfest LetterBrewfest Prize TokenWolpertinger's TankardStout AlementalBrewfest BannerSteamworks Sausage GrillBrewfest Prize TokenBattle Pets

Wolpertinger: Critter, Uncommon, Breed 7 (H/P). Scratch, Flyby, Headbutt, Horn Attack, Sleeping Gas, Rampage

Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm: Critter, Uncommon, Breed 7 (H/P). Smash, Trumpet Strike, Headbutt, Trample, Survival, Stampede

Stout Alemental is new to 2015 and has the abilities Brew Bolt, Inebriate, Dive, Barrel Toss, Explosive Brew, Bubble

MountsCoren DirebrewSwift Brewfest RamGreat Brewfest KodoKeg-Shaped Treasure ChestBrewfest RamProfilesToy BoxClick here to read our complete guide to the Toy BoxBrewfest BannerSteamworks Sausage Grill

Brewfest Banner

Sold by Brewfest vendors for 100 Brewfest Prize Token

Wear a Brewfest Banner.

BoP

Brewfest Keg Pony

Sold by Brewfest vendors for 200 Brewfest Prize Token

Summons a pony carrying kegs, which can be clicked on for Brewfest Brew

BoP

Brewfest Pony Keg

Sold by Brewfest vendors for 100 Brewfest Prize Token

Summons a keg which can be clicked on for Brewfest Brew

BoP

Pandaren Brewpack

Sold by Brewfest vendors for 100 Brewfest Prize Token

Character Effect: Keg appears on your back, as well as a skill bar letting you drink and throw brew.

BoP

Steamworks Sausage Grill

Sold by Brewfest vendors for 200 Brewfest Prize Token

Summons grill for cooking.

BoP

ProfilesCoren Direbrew, The Grim Guzzler and the Dark Iron DwarvesCoren DirebrewBlackrock Depthslevel 99Direbrew's Dire BrewDirebrew's Dire BrewAlliance versionBrewfest Prize TokenKeg-Shaped Treasure ChestKeg-Shaped Treasure ChestCoren's Loot

Brawler's Statue

Mithril Wristwatch

Thousand-Year Pickled Egg

Coren's Cold Chromium Coaster

Bitterest Balebrew Charm

Bubbliest Brightbrew Charm

Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest

Great Brewfest Kodo

Swift Brewfest Ram

Direbrew's Remote

Tremendous Tankard O' Terror

Direbrew's Bloodied Shanker

Brewfest AchievementsBrewmasterMeta Achievements

Brewmaster
Complete all of the Brewfest achievements except Brew of the Year, Almost Blind Luck, Strange Brew and Disturbing the Peace and you will be awarded the player title Brewmaster <Name>.

Brew of the Month
For this achievement, you must purchase a "Brew of the Month" Club Membership Form for 200 Brewfest Prize Token from either Blix Fixwidget, Ray'ma, Belbi Quikswitch or Larkin Thunderbrew at the main Brewfest camps or inside Orgrimmar or Ironforge. This will entitle you to receive a special brew every month, for members only. You will be able to purchase more of a specific month's brew from a Brew Vendor located inside Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Direbrewfest
For this achievement, you must travel to the Bar in Blackrock Depths and defeat the Dark Iron dwarf Coren Direbrew. You must be 99 to defeat Coren.

Does Your Wolpertinger Linger?
For this acheivement, US players complete the quest Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! or Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! and obtain the Wolpertinger's Tankard. EU players can purchase it for 200 Brewfest Prize Token instead due to restrictions. Enjoy your cute and creepy pet!

Down With The Dark Iron
Defend the Brewfest camp from a Dark Iron attack and complete the quest, This One Time, When I Was Drunk... / This One Time, When I Was Drunk.... The Dark Iron attacks happen roughly every half hour at either of the main Brewfest camps, located outside of Orgrimmar or Ironforge. Once you have 'defeated' the Dark Iron attack, simply loot the Dark Iron Mole Machine Wreckage which will start the required quest, which can be turned in nearby to Boxey Boltspinner or Bizzle Quicklift.

Have Keg, Will Travel
For this achievement, you can now either own a Brewfest mount (either dropped by Coren Direbrew or obtained via tokens in 2007) or simply change one of your existing mounts into one by using Fresh Brewfest Hops, which can be purchased from Brewfest vendors for a mere 2 Brewfest Prize Token. You can also use Preserved Brewfest Hops, though these will cost more Brewfest Prize Token.

The Brewfest Diet
For this achievement, simply sample all of the foods available from the Brewfest vendors. You need to be level 65 to complete this achievement and eat The Golden Link.
Purchase The Golden Link, Succulent Sausage, Pickled Sausage, Savory Sausage, Dried Sausage and Spicy Smoked Sausage from Bron or Keiran Donoghue

Purchase Spiced Onion Cheese from Agnes Farwithers or Anne Summers.

Purchase The Essential Brewfest Pretzel from Uta Roughdough or Arlen Lochlan

Other Achievements

Brew of the Year
For this achievement, you must drink one of each of the 12 beers featured in the Brew of the Month club. You will receive a new brew at the beginning of every month and will only be able to purchase that brew for the duration of that month--be careful you don't miss one. This achievement will take a full year to get, but thankfully it is no longer required for the Brewmaster achievement.

Almost Blind Luck
This achievement is just a Brewfest version of Going Down?, so any strategies/locations specified for that will apply. Just remember to get really, really intoxicated beforehand (ie. "completely smashed") and try to survive the fall.

Strange Brew or Strange Brew
For this achievement, simply sample all of the beers available from your faction's Brewfest vendors. These beers can be purchased at the Brewfest camps found outside of any major city.
Horde players will purchase brews from the following vendors:
T'chali's Voodoo Brewery Apprentice: Stout Shrunken Head, Brewdoo Magic, Jungle River Water. Also sells Crimson Stripe which grants critical strike but isn't needed for the achievement.

Drohn's Distillery Apprentice: Path of Brew, Long Stride Brew, Small Step Brew. Also sells Promise of the Pandaren which grants stamina but isn't needed for the achievement.

Gordok Brew Apprentice: Mudder's Milk, Ogre Mead, Gordok Grog Also sells Chuganpug's Delight which grants critical strike but isn't needed for the achievement.

Thunderbrew Apprentice: Thunderbrew Stout, Thunderbrew Ale, Thunder 45. Also sells Thunder's Plunder which grants stamina but isn't needed for the achievement.

Barleybrew Apprentice: Barleybrew Dark, Barleybrew Light, Barleybrew Clear. Also sells Barleybrew Gold which grants critical strike but isn't needed for the achievement.

Gordok Brew Apprentice: Mudder's Milk, Ogre Mead, Gordok Grog. Also sells Chuganpug's Delight which grants critical strike but isn't needed for the achievement.

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Comments

Comment by terrillyn

I have enjoyed this festival for years. It struck me that the Mithrel Wristwatch would have made a great wrist item and the egg an offhand.

Comment by perculia

That's a great idea!

Comment by Agramon

Battlepets chart seems to be broken.

Is it possible to add tooltips to the names on the left of the chart, so I can see what it means instead of scrolling up and to see if I already have that achiev/pet/... ? Thanks.

Comment by perculia

The battle pet chart should be repopulated by later today, I've hidden it for now.

I'm not sure how easy it is to add tooltips to charts but I will inquire. In the meantime, the tables/descriptions above the charts are nearby and can be used to reference completion info.

Comment by bleuwolfe

Does the brew of the month club still work? I realized the other day I haven't gotten the monthly beer in the mail for quite some time (neither has my roommate) ..... possibly since WoD launch. Although for a time at the end of MoP I was getting duplicates.

EDIT: as of 9-22-15 (possibly cause of rolling restarts) it appears they've tried to fix this. I say TRIED- because I just received 19 emails with binary brew attached......

Comment by urfurf

The links on this page seem to point at last year's guide: Brewfest/

edit: And apparently linking to a Wowhead page requires some sort of crazy wizardry. I'm talking about the Wowhead page for the Brewfest event.

Comment by perculia

Hey no worries, figured out what it meant and pointed it to the general Brewfest guide page.

Comment by Bumbac

What about the heirloom weapon upgrades vendors are selling?

Comment by 881073

Nice post, waited all day for this 2015 post, was about time:D

Comment by perculia

What about the heirloom weapon upgrades vendors are selling?

I don't have a character on EU realms and it's not up on US realms yet. If you can take a pic of the heirloom vendors I can add the info to the post, thanks!

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Comment by 716334

For the first time in 8 years of doing this boss and other festival bosses I got a "too many instances" message/block. It wasn't too much of a nuisance as i was only providing a tank so guildies could get quick queues. So whether its a temporary bug caused by current connection issues or something now built-in for festival boss/es - be aware that grinding for specific trinkets may trigger this effect.

Comment by schnizol

I haven't logged into the game today yet but... does it mean the only way to gather coincs are those stupid ram riding quests? -.-'

Comment by perculia

Ram racing is the majority of tokens, but there is one daily that does not require racing, as well as one-time quests.

Comment by 369111

Wishing they would update this WE and not just the ilvl of the trinkets. I'd like to see some Brewfest themed armor and new flying mount.

Comment by hummmer

was wondering about this as well, as now saw post about brewfest and yes, it is probably about since WoD there wasn't any more brews coming in post.

Comment by 1362032

Now where can I find Chen Stormstout? Seriously, it is his kind of event.

Comment by JasperKazai

This will be the first time I've played during Brewfest since 2011. It's one of the holidays that I like better, so I'm happy about that. I'm surprised that the new stuff is new to this year, though. I saw all the Pandaren stuff in the toy box earlier in the year and figured it had been added during MoP.
I don't understand why you'd want to cancel Brew of the Year. You could just delete the mail if you don't want it that month? Spending tokens to cancel it outright seems extreme.

Comment by perculia

There were a few Panda-themed items, but for previous years, they were just items taking up space in your inventory, so not a lot of people collected them. They weren't added at the start of MoP, which people thought was pretty surprising--it was late in the expansion.

In addition, some of the items new to this year like the Alemental resemble MoP pets because they were added last year but were only obtainable on the PTR. The big patch adding holiday updates went live right after Brewfest 2014 ended.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##perculia##DELIM##

Comment by Pwncess

Am I the only one that's upset they limited the ram mount to such a small window of players? Keeping it available only to those who played in 2007 just seems unfair and outdated.

Comment by Purgatorywolf

You can obtain somewhere around 160 tokens the first day, more or less. Each day after your first, you should get around 70 tokens.

The Tokens you get from Direbrew are random, I've seen people get anywhere from 10 to 20 tokens from him.

The Tokens you get from the Race can vary depending on efficient your racing is.

For some people it seemed to cancel when WoD came out. You can purchase a new contract from the Rewards Vendor.

-Edit; looks like they might have fixed this with the reset on the 22nd.

I haven't logged into the game today yet but... does it mean the only way to gather coincs are those stupid ram riding quests? -.-'

Well, you can get tokens from Direbrew once a day, from the Dark Iron Invasion once a day. (Which is only going to give you like 10 to 20) The only other dailies are Barking and the Ram "race" (which you don't like.)

You also got the once per event quests for throwing mugs at the robot, netting Wolpertingers, zapping Pink Elekks, and your first kill on Direbrew. (I got 112 tokens on my Mage, on day one, without doing anything Ram related. Again, the tokens you get from Direbrew are random.)

So, you don't HAVE to do the Ram stuff, but you'll be severely limited on what you can buy without doing them.

Am I the only one that's upset they limited the ram mount to such a small window of players? Keeping it available only to those who played in 2007 just seems unfair and outdated.

I am too, when it was first out, I said to myself "Eh, I'll get it next year." Regretting that, for sure.

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