Brell's Everlasting Brew

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EverQuest 2 Quest Information

Journal Category	World Event  (AA)
Introduced	Brew Day
Journal Level	Scales with player level
Journal Difficulty	Solo
Starting Zone	Bar of Brell more
How to Start	Speak with Rasel Alechaser in the bar.
NOTE: A discussion page exists which may contain more information

What does this information mean?

This quest includes extensive Notes, which are found after the list of rewards. If this is your first time doing the quest, you may want to read them before you begin.

Steps

Though the steps below are numbered, many steps (like gathering water) can be done at any time.

Pure Water. As you get closer it looks like a small tornado.

1. Travel to Thundermist Village (in The Thundering Steppes. Find a farmer named Prew Drowers ( 548, 0, -69 ) Copy/waypoint 548, 0, -69 and try to take some of his hops by clicking on the pile of bags behind him.
   • Grab the Thundering Steppes pure water update (from step 6 while) to save a trip.
2. Distract Prew Drowers and steal his hops by double-clicking on Betsy (a cow at ( 594, -1, -60 ) Copy/waypoint 594, -1, -60) to tip her over.
   • When Prew Drowers runs out to check on Betsy, run in and steal the hops by clicking on the bags again.
3. Return to the Bar of Brell and enter the private lounge (top of the stairs, first door on the right). Within the lounge, you will try to convince Jimmy Runner to give you some of his top quality barley.
4. In order to talk to Jimmy, you need to get him drunk first by "buying" him drinks. To begin, hail the bartender, Dwayne Rockbeard. Ask him questions; he will provide insight on Jimmy's moods and the various drinks you can buy.
5. Get Jimmy drunk by hailing Dwayne Rockbeard and selecting different drinks or drink combinations (see Notes at the end of this page for tips).
6. When you finally get Jimmy drunk enough, he will glow green. Hail him to get the update and leave the Bar Brell.
7. Gather four flasks of Pure Water (they look like small tornadoes) from any body of water in specific zones. You may have to dive to gather them in some locations. You must gather one in each of the following zones:
   • Antonica
   • The Thundering Steppes
   • Nektulos Forest
   • The Commonlands
8. Return to Rasel and receive a Prayer to Brell (looks like a book page in your inventory).
9. Right click on the Prayer to Brell (examine it) to zone into the Sanctorium of Brell instance.
10. Double - or right click the second stein from the right: A Wooden Stein (See the image in Notes below. The stein is circled in yellow). You will be zoned back out to the Bar of Brell.
11. Return to Rasel to finish the quest. (See the notes for tips on curing drunk effects.)

Rewards

One of the following:

• Keg of the Everlasting
• Brew Day Cloak (added 2008)
• Charging Bull Rush x5 (added 2009)
• Brewday tapestry (added 2010)
• Boarfiend Snout Stout x5 (added 2011)
• Betsy Plushie (added 2012)
• Stonebrunt Brell Totem (added 2013)
• 10 x Beer Token

Notes

Over the years many things have been debated about this quest and some of the info may have changed (for example, you should be able to tip Betsy at any time of the day/night). Those who have never undertaken this quest may find the following info helpful.

• Because this quest takes you to so many locations, you may want to see the Brew Day Walk Through for an efficient way to complete the steps of many quests at once.

Cow Tipping:

• Time no longer seems to matter, but you do need to orient yourself correctly to tip Betsy. See the cow tipping discussion.

Getting Jimmy Drunk:

• If you make Jimmy pass out or make him sick, wait in the room and he will get up/drink again.
• Overall, the most important thing to pay attention to is Jimmy's behavior. If he gets rowdy and angry, you are close to getting him drunk enough, so choose drinks more carefully at that stage.
• The order and number of drinks might be randomized. See the discussion about possible drink buying combinations.
• The simplest confirmed combination that might work is listed below. More detailed versions are on the talk page linked above.

• Start with Coffee.
• Buy him 4 Dwarven Ales. (If this works, he will turn green and you can hail him)

Sobering Up:

There are several ways to get rid of the drunk effects you may have at the end of this quest (or any quest, for that matter):

• Start the Brew Day festivities with a stack of provisioner made Hair of the Dog in yourbackpack, which cures drunk effects.
• Die on purpose. When you revive you will no longer be drunk.
• Have a friend duel with you and lose on purpose.
• If you have already done other Brew Day quests, visit Balin Copperfoot and buy Wake-up Juice (single use item) or a Pot of Wake-up Juice; the Pot of Wake-up Juice (sold for 5 Beer Tokens creates 10 Wake-up juices when examined so it may be more economical if you get drunk a lot. You may need to zone out of the bar for the Wake-up Juice to take effect after this quest.
• Wait. The effects will fade eventually, so it might be a good time to put on a new pot of real-world coffee.
• There may also be other cures for inebriation. See the Dicussion

Choosing the Stein

• When you mouse over the (correct) Wooden Stein it will read, "This is a very old, and slightly dirty wooden stein. The handle is simple iron. The construction is quite crude". Fun fact: this is a homage to the movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which Indy must choose the simple Grail over more ornate options.
• If you choose poorly, you die and revive back at the bar and must hail Rasel again to get a new copy of the prayer. Read the prayer again to go back. There is no lockout timer.

Choosing the correct stein in the Sanctum of Brell: The Wooden Stein is circled in yellow to make its location clear.

This article refers to events, personae and activities only present in-game during the annual Brew Day celebration, which comes to Norrath each year the week of March 17th.

Credits

EQ2i credits this article at EQ2 ZAM for some of the info in this article.