OSRS Brewing Ale – Easy Passive Money Making Guide

Are you interested in venturing into OSRS’ brewing ale money-making methods but don’t know where exactly to start? We have your back. In this guide, we’ll provide you with everything you need to know when it comes to brewing ale.

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1 Requirements for Brewing Ale
2 Locations Where You Can Brew Ale
3 Estimated Profits of Particular Ale Types
4 Steps on How You Can Brew Ale
5 Brewing Cider for Money-Making Method
6 Other Helpful Brewing Tips to Consider

Requirements for Brewing Ale 

Brewing ale is one of the best passive money-making methods in OSRS. In addition, you can also gain small amounts of cooking exp as you do it. And for you to get started on it, you will need at least 14 cooking or whatever cooking level you need to cook a particular drink within the game. 

Moreover, you will need each of the following items when creating all types of ale. Here they are below: 

  • Two buckets of water
  • Two barley malt
  • One ale yeast
  • A specific ingredient that a particular ale you’re making will need
  • Two Calquat kegs or eight empty beer glasses

You can obtain cheap empty beer glasses and calquat kegs from ales you can purchase for as low as 2 GP. All you have to do is consume the contents to collect these empty beer glasses for you to use.

You can buy yeast from Blandebir (found on the 1st floor of Laughing Miner Pub) for 25 coins. Alternatively, you can also purchase yeast from Metarialus for five ecto-tokens (located at The Green Ghost Pub in Port Phasmatys). 

Locations Where You Can Brew Ale

There are two locations in-game that you can visit for brewing ale. Here they are:

  • The upper floor of the Laughing Miner Pub
  • The basement of the Green Ghost Pub

Estimated Profits of Particular Ale Types

You have to consider that prices of all ale types fluctuate a lot. But to give you a brief idea of how much a certain type of ale costs and how much profits you can gain from them, here’s a list you can refer to below: 

  • Dwarven Stout: -12,499 
  • Mature Dwarven Stoute: 185,999
  • Asgarnian Ale: -2,747
  • Mature Asgarnian Ale: 26,573
  • Greenman’s Ale: -2,745
  • Mature Greenman’s Ale: 348,959
  • Wizard’s Mind Bomb: -5,595
  • Mature Wizard’s Mind Bomb: 68,557
  • Dragon Bitter: -307
  • Mature Dragon Bitter: -29
  • Moonlight Mead: -309
  • Mature Moonlight Mead: 30,801
  • Axeman’s Folly: 12,404
  • Mature Axeman’s Folly: 354,332
  • Chef’s Delight: 2,821
  • Mature Chef’s Delight: 374,173
  • Slayer’s Respite: -2,015
  • Mature Slayer’s Respite: 285,377

Always calculate the current prices yourself before diving in, as these fluctuate alot!

Steps on How You Can Brew Ale 

Now that we’ve discussed the basics, it’s not time to start brewing ale. Here are the steps you can follow to do so: 

Step 1: First, add the two buckets of water into the fermenting vat. 

Step 2: Once you’ve poured the water, add the two lots of barley malt. You can also add The Stuff to improve your chances of maturing your ale. 

Step 3: After adding the items above, you can add the specific needed ingredient for the specific type of ale you’re making. 

Step 4: After adding the specific ingredient, you can add the ale yeast into the fermenting vat(bought from the NPC Blandebir or Metarialus)

Step 5: Once you’re done mixing in all the needed ingredients, wait for around one to five days for your ale to finish brewing. Your ale will take longer to finish if you added The Stuff in it. Your ale has a 5% chance of maturing naturally or 36% if you add the stuff from the Trouble Brewing minigame.

Step 6: When your ale is finished brewing, use eight empty beer glasses or two calquat kegs to collect it. Turn the valve to collect the contents of the fermenting vat. 

Brewing Cider for Money-Making Method

Other than brewing ale, you can also brew cider. After all, it is another good passive means of generating money. So, to brew cider, you need the following: 

  • Four buckets 
  • Four apples

You will need a total of four buckets for each apple mush you will create. You can buy apples and buckets at various shops for cheap prices. To create apple mush, you can go to one of the three apple presses within the game. These apple presses are located in the following areas: 

  • The second level of the Laughing Miner Pub
  • Below The Green Ghost Pub
  • At the apple orchard, located at the outermost area of the Tree Gnome Stronghold

Other Helpful Brewing Tips to Consider

  • Since brewing can be such a time-consuming process, you can use in-game items such as The Stuff to speed up the maturing process of your ales. The Stuff can increase your chances of maturing your ale to 36%. This item can be obtained from the Trouble Brewing minigame. 
  • With that being said, it’s highly recommended to produce mature ale as they are much more expensive. Therefore, they will cost more when you sell them. 
  • Although it is not needed to complete quests for brewing, you should complete the Ghost Ahoy quest to gain access to the brewing location at the Green Ghost Pub. 
  • Leaving your ale on the fermenting vat doesn’t affect its chances of going bad. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about not collecting your ale on time.