Brewfest

Brewfest is a holiday loosely based on the Bavarian Oktoberfest. It contains quests and novelty things such as outfits, kegs, and riding rams.

From the Official Brewfest event page:

Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fermented fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and booze! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brewers have to offer!

Ticket redemption

There are several items you can get from redeeming [Brewfest Prize Ticket]s. To redeem your tickets, visit:

• Belbi Quikswitch, Dun Morogh
• Blix Fixwidget, Durotar
  • [Brewfest Pony Keg] (requires 50 )

Drops a pony keg on the ground for a few minutes. Click to tap some [Brewfest Brew].

• [Belbi's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles] (requires 100 )

View everyone as a Gnome [Alliance] or Orc [Horde] (7 day duration)

• ["Honorary Brewer" Hand Stamp] (requires 600 )

Starts a quest that will allow you to buy a mount. [Brewfest Ram] are sold for 10g, [Swift Brewfest Ram] for 100g.

Quests

Alliance

•  [52] Seek the Saboteurs from a map found on the ground.
•  [70] Brewfest! from Commoners found in every major city.
•  [70] Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! from Goldark Snipehunter, Dun Morogh
•  [70 Daily] Pink Elekks On Parade from Goldark Snipehunter, Dun Morogh
•  [70] Now This is Ram Racing... Almost from Neill Ramstine, Dun Morogh
  •  [70] There and Back Again
  •  [70 Daily] Bark for the Barleybrews! or  [70 Daily] Bark for the Thunderbrews!
  •  [70] Did someone Say, "Souvenir?"

Horde

•  [1] Catch the Wild Wolpertinger! from Glodrak Huntsniper, Durotar
•  [70] Pink Elekks On Parade from Glodrak Huntsniper, Durotar

Dark Iron Attacks

About hourly, a party of Dark Iron Dwarves will crash the party at the main brewfest camps. Hitting these dwarves with a beer mug will stop them from stealing the free brew. Here's how you can participate in saving the free brew for the invited guests.

There are NPC's representing each brewery around the area and if you /wave at one of the ones dual weilding glowing tankards, they will toss you one. Using this item will take a drink and throw the mug. If there are Dark Irons around it may hit one of them and give you a 'mark'. The mug works even with no Dark Irons around it just flys over and lands on the ground. Each time you throw the mug, it refills and you can throw another one. Doing this several times gets you drunk also.

Once the raid is over the 'marks' can be converted into Brewfest tickets on a one to one basis at the friendly ticket vendor.

The mugs last 15 minutes, logged in or not. Also, they don't seem to be handed out right after the Dark Iron raid so they may only be available within 15 minutes of a raid starting. (This needs more testing.)

Racing Ram Tips

Several of the quests involve the racing rams, including the barking runs (10 tickets (daily)) and the keg delivery (2 tickets per keg (daily)).

The rental racing ram lasts for a total of 4 minutes. During the keg delivery daily quest, the time limit for the ram is increased by 30 seconds for each keg delivered.

The rams have 5 speeds. These are accessed through the bridle. Using the bridle gets the ram into higher speed mode. It takes a few clicks to go up to the next speed and you have to click on a regular basis to stay in a speed range. Clicking faster than the maintenence rate will speed up and not clicking for a while will slow down.

If you get into Canter speed, you get a stacking debuff which tracks your rams tiredness. If this debuff stacks to 100, your ram becomes exhausted and slows way down.

There are apple barrels which, if you ride by real close, will remove the debuff and allow it to start at zero again. This is very important to maximize ticket gain from the keg delivery daily quest. Using the 2 barrels near the path you travel, you can remain in gallop mode for the entire ride.

Speed list from low to high. Speeds are % of running speed.

• Exhausted 14%
  • If you stack the debuff to 100
• Walking 74% (close to this need to test again)
  • Rams start here and if you do nothing this is how fast they go.
  • Also, they are always on auto-move so you have to hold your move backwards key to stand still.
  • Debuff stacking reduces about 4-5 a tick
• Trot 120% (close)
  • Slower than a regular mount
  • Debuff stacking ticks down at 1 or 2 per tick
• Canter 200%
  • Epic mount speed with no trinkets
  • Debuff stacks up 1-2 per tick
• Gallop 285%+
  • Faster than Epic with Crusader (a bit)
  • Debuff ticks up 5 per tick

Screenshots

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  Brewfest in Durotar.

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  Prize Ticket Vendor.

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  Sausage Vendor.

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  Ram Racing Master.

External links

• Official Brewfest In-Game Event page
• MMO-Champion preview