Brew Mania

BrewMania

A comprehensive brewing system for Minecraft. Build a working brewery from grain to glass, craft 13 unique drinks across four categories, and manage a quality-driven production pipeline that rewards skill and patience.

Overview

BrewMania adds a full production chain for beer, wine, mead, and spirits. Every drink moves through specialized stations — milling, mashing, boiling, fermenting, aging, and bottling — with optional distillation for hard liquor. A 5-star quality system, per-player brewing skill, and a tiered drunkenness mechanic give your brews real consequences in the world.

Features

Seven Brewing Stations

• Mill — Crush wheat into malt.
• Mash Tun — Combine malt with water to create wort, or grapes/honeycomb to create must.
• Brew Kettle — Boil wort with hops or other ingredients (requires fuel).
• Fermentation Tank — Long-form fermentation.
• Aging Barrel — Rest your brew for higher quality.
• Bottling Station — Fill containers with the finished product.
• Distillery — Distill fermented liquid into spirits (requires fuel).

13 Built-In Drinks

• Beers — Pils, Weizen, Stout, IPA (Beer Mug)
• Wines — Red, White, Fruit (Wine Glass)
• Meads — Classic, Spiced (Bottle)
• Spirits — Whisky, Vodka, Fruit Brandy, Rum (Shot Glass)

Quality System (1–5 stars)

Quality is determined by recipe correctness, a touch of randomness, and your brewing skill. Higher-quality drinks have stronger, longer-lasting effects — a 5-star brew lasts six times longer than a 1-star one.

Brewing Skill (Levels 1–100)

Every successful brew grants XP, stored per-player via NeoForge attachments. Higher levels significantly improve your odds of producing premium drinks.

Effects

• Drunkenness — Five escalating levels: visual wobble, stumbling, blurred vision, and finally a blackout teleport that drops you somewhere within 50 blocks.
• Hangover — Triggers at sunrise after a heavy night. Applies Slowness, Mining Fatigue, and Nausea. Duration scales with how drunk you got.

Custom Crops

• Hops — A climbing plant that grows up fences. Used for beer.
• Grape Vines — A climbing plant that grows up custom Trellis blocks. Used for wine.

Datapack-Driven Custom Drinks

Define entirely new drinks via JSON — no Java required:

{
  "translationKey": "item.mypack.cherry_ale",
  "color": "0xCC3333",
  "drunkennessMultiplier": 1.2,
  "category": "beer",
  "additionalEffects": [
    { "effect": "minecraft:regeneration", "duration": 200, "amplifier": 0 }
  ]
}

Set color, drunkenness scaling, category, and any number of additional potion effects. Definitions are loaded server-side and synced to clients automatically.

Configurable

All brewing times, hangover duration, and the blackout teleport range are exposed in the config file.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.1.1
• NeoForge 26.1.1.0-beta or newer
• Java 25

Compatibility

No external mod dependencies. Designed to coexist with other content mods — uses its own creative tab and namespace.