Once Human: All Brewing Barrel Recipes

Crafting weapons and armor isn’t enough to maximize your gains in Once Human. If you want to make the most out of all the systems the game has to offer, then making and using Brewing Barrels should be on your list of priorities.

Using Brewing Barrels is simple, but knowing what to put in them involves a fair bit of guesswork. You can’t just pick something to brew like when cooking food and drink recipes in Once Human. Here are the Brewing Barrel recipes that we’ve found so far to help you get your stock of drinks and ingredients up pronto.

Once Human Brewing Barrel Recipes

Brewing Barrels in Once Human are especially made for making certain food, drinks, and other forms of liquid that you can’t whip up from any of the conventional stoves. Instead of picking recipes from a menu, you craft items with Brewing Barrels by placing ingredients inside the barrels themselves. All the known Brewing Barrel recipes in the game that we know so far are:

• Acid: Impure Acid + Purified Water
• Corn Ale: Corn + Purified Water
• Stardust Corn Ale: Deviated Corn + Purified Water
• Malt Ale: Wheat + Purified Water
• Stardust Malt Ale: Deviated Wheat + Purified Water
• Pickle: Cucumber + Purified Water
• Cheese: Milk + Purified Water

Brewing Barrel recipes use a 2:1 input-output ratio on ingredients.

While not necessarily mandatory, beer made from corn and wheat make for great Hydration items. You can get even more value out of beer by using Deviated ingredients, which you can find out in the wild or grow yourself. Crops have a chance of becoming Deviated if you use Fertilizer with Mutation Boost, or if you have a Buzzy Bee tending to your plants.

Regular ale will keep your sanity from dropping for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, Deviated versions provide the Quick Reflexes buff, which increases your character’s action speed by 20%. This only affects the speed at which you interact with things like chopping trees or mining ore. It does not make you move, shoot, or reload faster.

Out of all these recipes, the one for Acid is likely to be the most important one for many players. Getting Acid is a tedious process in Once Human — this resource is commonly dropped by Deviations like the Gnawers found in almost every POI, but considering how much Acid is used when crafting ammo, ingots, and other items, farming enemies becomes a chore.

How To Make Acid With Brewing Barrels

1. Build a Water Pump in a polluted area to gather Polluted Water.
2. Place Polluted Water in an Osmosis Water Purifier to get Impure Acid.
3. Mix Impure Acid with Purified Water in a Brewing Barrel to make regular Acid.

These are the basic steps on how to make Acid in your base. You can automate this to a degree by hooking up a Water Tank full of Dirty Water to a small Water Pump connected to another Osmosis Water Purifier. Instead of getting water manually in Once Human, you can place Water Pumps on regular ground to get some automatically. However, you’ll have to place Impure Acid in your Brewing Barrels yourself, so make sure to check on your purifiers from time to time.