So some of you may be asking, "what happened to brewing? Why can't I place my flowers directly into the keg? Is this a bug?"

James, the developer has been talking about how kegs are too cheap for their value. When the game first came out, kegs were very cheap to make yet produced a highly powerful consumable that also sold for a lot of dink. So the kegs got nerfed with the higher costs we see today. In the Bloomin' Spring update, we saw another nerf in that you have to process your flowers via a pot over a campfire, aka the billy can kit.

But with the billy can kit came all sorts of new stuff too that can be brewed. You're not limited to just wattle and bottle flowers now.

You'll first need to get the brewing license from Fletch at the Town Hall. That will unlock the Billy Can Kit in the process. The Billy Can is easy to craft as it's a campfire and two tin bars. The logistical supply train now is harvest flowers, put ten into the billy can, wait a while (but less than a day, more on this later) and out pops bottle or wattle tea. You then take that tea and put it into the keg and then wait two days to get brew.

As billy cans can process bottle and wattle flowers much faster than into tea than a keg could process flowers into brew, you do not need one billy can per keg. You should be able to get 2-3 teas per day out of one billy can.

So you're thinking, maybe 1:2 or even a 1:3 ratio of billy cans to kegs. However, billy cans also can make jams from fruit and make coffee. Also, if you're not the best with time management, or spend many hours of your Dinkum day away from town, you may not have the time to load the billy cans with flowers to ensure you have enough teas to make brews. In that case, a 1:1 ratio might be better as it will eliminate the chance of you not having teas when your kegs finish their last production run.

Oh yeah, that caffeinated bean juice.

So coffee is also made in the billy cans too. Kegs are not involved.

So the only "reliable" source of coffee is from Jimmy, who's a nomadic shady guy on a boat who only appears on rainy days after you have a cool million dink in the bank. There is an item in the mines that when used will cause a rainy day the next day as a method of summoning Jimmy. Look for the ? on the map during rainy days for his location. Anyways, you buy coffee seeds from Jimmy for a whopping 13,600 dink. They're a Spring only crop and unlike every other crop, fertilizer DOES reduce their regrowth period.

So you can get three crops out of them if you plant within the first three to four days of Spring and use fertilizer on the plants and always have them watered, either by hand or by sprinkler.

You harvest coffee beans from the plant, which gives you three raw coffee beans per plant per harvest. Take those beans and roast them in the BBQ. Three roasted beans turn into one bag of roasted coffee. Then take that roasted coffee and put it into the billy can. Wait a bit and out comes drinkable coffee.






Now, I know what you're thinking, no milling? Yeah, it's a bit weird that you don't have to grind the beans in the milling machine, but it's also a lot to ask for three processing devices before the end product.

This also isn't a great money maker unless sold to Sheila as the base price to John for all three brewed coffees is 18,582 dink, for a measly profit of 4,982 for an entire growing season. The speed buff is however, what coffee is made for.

The Anniversary and the 2023 Festive Season updates added more things you can brew!

You can now harvest both red and green seaweed and brew it in the billy can. Kegs are not involved. Simply harvest seaweed from an ocean area (try not to get eaten by a shark in the process) and then take the seaweed and place in the billy can.






Now you take those almost useless coconuts and brew them in billy cans to produce coconut drink, presumably a refreshing coconut water.

Billy Cans look the same from front and back, so you can orient them in two rows to all output in the same direction, allowing you to collect all by running down just one side without sacrificing looks.

Top loading is generally faster and you can run on top without lighting yourself on fire like the normal camp fire. I place one stairs at the front for ease and no jumping necessary for both kegs and billy cans.

The tea is consumable which is a problem for fast loading of kegs as fast clicking sometimes causes you to consume the food you're trying to load into equipment. However, if you eat three things before, like three bush lime, you physically cannot consume anything else. Thus letting you spam your mouse to fast load the kegs without risking drinking a tea.

Meet the Cooking Kettle, sold by Sheila at the Tucker Box for 100,000 dinks.



The cooking kettle is a billy can on steroids. It can do everything a billy can does, but faster. It can also be boosted by a solar panel or windmill (which do not stack).

There's also more stuff to brew. You can take things like the crabs you get from crab pots and make crab soup. Or the thunderbags from frillies to make sparking soup. I recommend taking the yellow book sold at John's and using it on the cooking kettle to see what else you can now brew.

Take 30 fish roe and place it in a keg, wait a week and then caviar will pop out. Both great for selling and eating. Just a bit salty though.

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