Talk:Brewer

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Double page: Brewing

I found a Brewing page, which doesn't have any info that isn't covered here. I'm going to turn it into a redirect here and copying its talk page over --Juckto 06:49, 5 May 2008 (EDT)

Brewing Talk

i have like 80 barrles, but my farms use them all, how can i set the barrles to brewing only? Corhen

You can reserve a number of barrels to prevent them from being used by stockpiles, see Using bins and barrels for more information. But if your farm output is using all of your barrels you're probably either doing too much farming or not making enough barrels. --Marble Dice 14:51, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

Alternately, custom Stockpile like a bandit.

Ok, that's probably too terse to be comprehensible. Make a food stockpile that only accepts drinks. For all your other food stockpiles, set the maximum number of barrels to '0' (hit "C" while q-ing over the stockpile, iirc, but it should tell you what keys to hit in the sidebar). Dwarves grab barrels to put food in when they notice something about the stockpile with the food; if its not allowed to have barrels, they won't try to put things in it into barrels. (Now, they won't necessarily empty barrels immediately when you make this change, they'll just stop using new ones, and as the old ones free up they'll be available for brewing). --Squirrelloid 14:53, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

Drink quality?

I am fairly sure that the drink quality thoughts actually just refer to value. There's no real reason, after all, why quality would be hidden; and drinks don't vary in value, showing that there's probably no quality influence. --Aquillion 20:39, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Quality thoughts could also relate to individual preferences. A dwarf that prefers plump helmet wine will probably get a better thought about wine than about other drinks with the same value/quality. Angela Christine 15:06, 25 June 2009 (UTC)