How to brew

Brewing on Sunday Market is a three-step pipeline: cook in a cauldron, optionally distill in a brewing stand, optionally age in a wood barrel. Different recipes use different combinations.

Here's the full mechanic.

Step 1 — Cook in a cauldron

Setup

• Place a cauldron on the ground
• Place a heat source under it: campfire (preferred — visible flame), open fire on netherrack, or magma block. Soul fire and lava also work.
• Right-click the cauldron with a water bucket to fill it

A cauldron over heat with water in it is now active and warming up.

Add ingredients

For each ingredient in the recipe, right-click the cauldron while holding the ingredient. The system tracks what you've added.

For example, to brew a basic wheatbeer:

3 wheat → right-click cauldron 3 times while holding wheat

Order doesn't matter, but the counts do. 3 wheat is 3 wheat — adding 4 means a different (or wrong) recipe.

Cook

Once your ingredients are in, the cauldron cooks. Cook time is tracked in real minutes — most recipes need 6–18 minutes. The recipe-specific cook time is what produces the best quality.

You can leave the area; the cauldron continues cooking. Even if you log off, the timer continues.

Bottle

When the cook time is right, right-click the cauldron with an empty glass bottle. The bottle fills with the brewed contents. The bottle's name and color reflect the recipe and quality.

Pull too early or too late and the quality drops. Underbrewed = "Skunky" / "Watery" prefix. Overbrewed = burnt prefix.

Step 2 — Distill (some recipes)

Some recipes — most spirits — require distillation after cooking. This step boosts alcohol content and refines flavor.

Setup

• Place a brewing stand (vanilla brewing stand, no special config)
• Add blaze powder for fuel (vanilla mechanic)

Distill

• Put the cooked bottles in the brewing stand's three top slots
• The stand processes them — each pass is a "distill run"
• Some recipes need multiple distill runs
• Each run takes the configured distill time (default 40 sec, varies per recipe)

After the right number of runs, the bottles change name to indicate the post-distillation drink.

Hitting the right number of runs

If a recipe wants 3 distill runs, you must run the bottles through the stand 3 times. Stop at 3.

• Stop early → underdistilled (weaker, lower quality)
• Stop late → overdistilled (harsh, lower quality)

The stand doesn't auto-stop — you have to take the bottles out at the right point.

Step 3 — Age in a wood barrel (some recipes)

Some recipes — wines and aged spirits especially — need barrel aging in a specific wood type for a specific number of in-game years.

Setup

• Build a wooden barrel (vanilla recipe: wood slabs + wood planks). The wood type matters for aging — different recipes need different woods.
• The barrel needs to be a placed barrel block, not in your inventory

Wood types matter

Different recipes specify different woods:

• Oak — the workhorse for basic agers
• Birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, dark oak — each recipe lists its wood
• Some recipes are flexible about the wood — for those, the aging duration matters more than the grain

Each recipe lists the required wood. Aging in the wrong wood gives lower quality.

Age for the right number of "years"

• 1 in-game year ≈ 20 real minutes
• Recipes specify aging in years (e.g., "age: 5" = 100 real minutes)
• The longest agers want many years of barrel time — plan for multiple real hours

You don't have to be online for aging — the barrel ages while you're offline.

Open the barrel to check

Right-click the barrel to open it. Bottles inside are ageing. The age increases over time. Take them out when the age matches the recipe.

Take too early → underaged. Take too late → overaged.

The "right" age window has some forgiveness, but maxing quality means hitting the exact target.

A complete walkthrough

Brewing Wheatbeer (the tavern's simplest pour — no distillation, short aging):

1. Place a cauldron over a campfire and right-click it with a water bucket.
2. Right-click the cauldron 3× holding wheat.
3. Wait 8 minutes of real-time cooking.— The cauldron cooks while you're offline — leave it.
4. Right-click with an empty glass bottle to bottle the brew.
5. Place a birch-wood barrel; drop the bottles into it.— The recipe specifies the wood type — birch for this one.
6. Wait about 40 real minutes (2 in-game years).
7. Open the barrel and remove the bottles — Fine Wheatbeer, ready to serve.

The full recipe schema for Wheatbeer:

Tools you'll be using along the way:

Total time: ~48 minutes, almost all of it hands-off. You can do other things during the wait.

Common mistakes

Wrong cauldron heat

If your cauldron isn't actually over a heat source, ingredients don't cook. Verify a campfire / fire is visibly burning beneath the cauldron.

Adding more ingredients during cook

Once you've added ingredients and started cooking, don't add more. Mixed-recipe cauldrons produce slop. If you mess up, scoop the contents and start over.

Bottling too early

The "good quality" window is narrow. A few minutes off in either direction drops quality. If you're unsure, set a timer.

Wrong wood for barrel

A recipe wanting birch produces lower-quality drinks if aged in oak. Match the recipe spec.

Forgetting blaze powder

Brewing stands need blaze powder fuel. Forgot? Distillation halts mid-run. Add fuel and resume.

What you can use brews for

• Drink them yourself — for the effects and the lore
• Trade them — /trade opens a secure trade window; name your price
• Stock at a tavern build — community brewing operations

See also

• The menu — what's currently on tap
• Drunkenness — what happens when you actually drink
• Economy → Trading — selling your brews