Introduction
Each type of liquor is unique in the way it is made. Each comes with different risks and benefits. Remember that just because one sells for more doesn't mean its better. Consider the total time investment and risk when deciding which type of liquor you want to pursue.
Gathering Materials
Fig. 1: Barley Bush
Fig. 2: Elephant Grass
- Homebrew Moonshine (Water, Yeast, Corn) - High profit but requires a mobile distillery in order to create. Can be double distilled at the Spirit Distillery.
- Scotch (Water, Yeast, Barley) - Highest profit but takes time to age using the aging barrel house upgrade. Final form can be distilled at the Purification Factory.
Where to get Ingredients
- Water ($7 ea.) & Yeast ($15 ea.) can be purchased from a market.
- Barley, is found all across the island, simply scroll wheel on the bush (See fig. 1). Additionally, you may choose to pick berries from these bushes; you will receive 1-3 berries which when consumed replenish a small amount of hunger and thirst. However, it does consume the barley bush. Note: Barley is illegal to posses.
- Corn, is found in what is known as elephant grass (aka. Reeds). Elephant grass is found all over the island but extremely plentiful near the distillery; again simply scroll wheel on the grass and harvest corn (See fig. 2)
- A sickle is now purchasable at the hunting ground (20% chance at an extra barley/rye/corn)
- A new vehicle has been added called the Gardening Truck. It can be purchased at the truck shop for $100,000. It significantly increases the speed at which you can gather Corn & Barley.
Distilling
Now that you have your materials it's time to load up and head to the distillery. This is when you are most exposed, so its good to be prepared. No matter which alcohol you have chosen to make, you will need to have equal parts of ingredients to make the desired product. ((One Water + Yeast + Barley = 1 New make Scotch)) Go up to the distillery, which is already marked on your map, where you will find a small shack with a distillery, scroll wheel on the distillery to create your alcohol. Once the progress bar has been completed, the created alcohol will be placed into your inventory.
Fig3: Distillery
Fig4: Purchasing aging barrels
Mobile Moonshine Lab
Moonshine can only be distilled in a Mobile Distillery (Textured Fuel Truck) almost anywhere on the map.
Method
Below are the steps to make Moonshine: Note: You cannot cook Moonshine within 400 meters of a house you own, or have keys to, any efforts to bypass this restriction is a bannable offense.
- Purchase an Mobile Distillery from the RV Shop in Sofia or the RV shop within any Chop Shop.
- Collect equal amounts of Corn, Water, and Yeast.
- Find a suitable hidden area to park your Mobile Distillery.
- Using the scroll wheel, set up your Mobile Distillery to distil.
- Have equal amounts of materials on hand and begin mixing them into Corn Hash, this should take around 4 minutes.
- Take your Corn Hash and again process it using your Mobile Distillery, this should take around 4 minutes.
- Optionally, continue distilling your Moonshine into White Lightning at the Spirit Distillery. This is a more valuable version of the drink.
- Sell your Moonshine or White Lightning to the nearest Wongs Food and Liquor and store your cash in an ATM.
Ageing (Scotch)
Ageing requires purchasing the Ageing Barrel, which is an addition to your home's virtual inventory. There are four stages for scotch (New make, Scotch, 15yr, 25yr,) The formula for ageing is as follows - To age your product:
Place the un-aged alcohol in your home's virtual inventory. Your product will begin to "age" over several server restarts in set increments. For Scotch, it ages 50 per stage per restart. Keep in mind every time the server restarts you MUST log in. Scotch will age automatically age from New to 25 year as long as it's in your house.
Ageing Example
Assuming what you had 100 scotch in your barrel, this is what it would look like over many restarts:
- Start: [100] New Make Scotch
- 1st Restart: [50] Scotch; [50] New Make Scotch
- 2nd Restart: [50] 15 year Scotch; [50] scotch
- 3rd Restart: [50] 25 year Scotch; [50] 15 year Scotch
- 4th Restart: [100] 25 year Scotch
Selling
Selling is the final step, carefully make your way to a Wong's Food and Liquor and sell your product, then make your way to an ATM and deposit your new found wealth!
Base Payout
15 Year Scotch - $700 ea.
25 Year Scotch - $1200 ea.
Homebrew Moonshine - $600 ea.
White Lightning - $850 ea.
Increasing Payout
- Owning "Wong Triad" will remove the cartel cut when processing as there is a cut to the Wong Triad Cartel when processing alcohol.
- Having both gang perks Fence and Bootlegger will increase your payout by 10% ((5% ea.))
Tips & Tricks
- Small and quick scotch runs will limit your vulnerability.
- Houses close to the distillery ((Abdera)) often go for well over a million dollars when sold and are highly preferred by most scotch runners due to the increased safety of a scotch run.
- Scotch sells for the most money if you're ageing in bulk.
- You must be online during a restart for it to count for ageing, however, it will age if you're in the lobby over restart.
- Moonshine doesn't need to be aged.
- You must have the house upgrade "Ageing Barrel" to age scotch.
- All the ingredients have a weight of 1, and every stage of alcohol weighs 3.
- Barley, corn can be found LITERALLY everywhere.