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! - Blizzard (official page)

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Note: Due to instability caused by the Dark Iron invasions, the hourly Dark Iron visits have been stopped. This also means you can no longer get the BRD quests (and if you already have the starting quest, Direbrew is not currently spawning in BRD, so you can’t complete it). In compensation, the ticket rewards have been upped for the daily quests. Barking for the breweries now earns 40 (up from 15) tickets, and beer-running with the rams now earns 3 tickets per keg (up from 2). (forum post)

Another Note: Due to popular demand, the beer-goggles are now permanent! They will still show a duration until the next patch, but Drysc stated in the forums that the item expiration has been hotfixed out.

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After the harvest comes a time for celebration and feasting. The barley has had time to malt since the Harvest Festival, which means - it’s time for beer and contests of skill. In addition, those who demonstrate their support for the Brewmasters can earn valuable prizes, including a new pet and a ram mount!

Each capital city has a biergarten (”beer garden”) set up outside the front gates. In Orgrimmar and Ironforge, this is expanded to a full festival ground where different vendors vie for your custom. Twice a day (at 6:00 server time, morning and evening), the ceremonial Tapping of the Keg proclaims the joy of the season (celebrated by High Tinker Mekkatorque or Shadow Hunter Vol’jin) and grants all in attendance a buff that grants +10% xp for 2 hours. The Thunderbrew and Barleybrew families (T’chali and Drohn, for the Horde) try to enlist your endorsement of their products, while hardworking vendors just try to keep their biergartens stocked. Overindulgence can lead to chasing creatures that noone else can see, from pink elekks to the jackalope-like wolpertinger.

Location	Alliance	Horde
Brewfest Grounds	Dun Morogh, at the foot of the road leading up to Ironforge	Rocktusk Farm, just southwest of Orgrimmar’s main gate. The Racing Ram stable is across the road, just south of Orgrimmar.
Beer Gardens	Darnassus Exodar Stormwind City	Silvermoon City Undercity Thunder Bluff
	Terrace of Light, Shattrath City (between the Scryer and Aldor Tiers)
The beer garden in Darnassus is at the east end - the main gates leading to Teldrassil, not Ruth’eran Village. The beer garden in Thunder Bluff is located at the main lift to the Lower Rise.

Brewfest is (obviously) patterned after the Bavarian Oktoberfest, traditionally celebrated at the end of September in Munich and imitated around the world.

Brewfest Items

The vendors will provide ample opportunities to sample free mugs of foaming beer at any of the biergartens. In addition, food and drink vendors will sell specialty food and drink; many of these have a 2-day item life, so we won’t have endless supplies of +20 Stamina drink lying around. Some of the available goodies include:

• Barleybrew Clear, Small Step Brew (3c) - Restores 151 mana/18 sec. +2 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Barleybrew Light, Long Stride Brew (15c) - MinLvl: 5, Restores 436 mana/21 sec. +4 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Barleybrew Dark, Path of Brew (50c) - MinLvl: 15, Restores 835 mana/24 sec. +6 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Thunder 45, Jungle River Water (1s) - MinLvl: 25, Restores 1344 mana/27 sec. +8 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Thunderbrew Ale, Brewdoo Magic (2s) - MinLvl: 35, Restores 1992 mana/30 sec. +12 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Thunderbrew Stout, Stout Shrunken Head (4s) - MinLvl: 45, Restores 2934 mana/30 sec. +14 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Gordok Grog (4s) - MinLvl: 55, Restores 4200 mana/30 sec. +20 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Mudder’s Milk, Ogre Mead (6.4s) - MinLvl: 65, Restores 7200 mana/30 sec. +20 Stamina and Spirit for 30 min “well fed” bonus
• The Essential Brewfest Pretzel (3c) - Restores 61 health/18 sec. +2 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Spiced Onion Cheese (15c) - MinLvl: 5, Restores 243 health/21 sec. +4 Stamina and Spirit for 15 in “well fed” bonus
• Diced Sausage (0.5s) - MinLvl: 15, Restores 552 health/24 sec. +6 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Succulent Sausage (1s) - MinLvl: 25, Restores 874 health/27 sec. +8 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Savory Sausage (2s) - MinLvl: 35, Restores 1392 health/30 sec. +12 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Pickled Sausage (4s) - MinLvl: 45, Restores 2148 health/30 sec. +14 Stamina and Spirit for 15 min “well fed” bonus
• Spicy Smoked Sausage (5s) - MinLvl: 55, Restores 4320 health/30 sec. +20 Stamina and Spirit for 30 min “well fed” bonus
• The Golden Link (8s) - MinLvl: 65, Restores 7500 health/30 sec. +20 Stamina and Spirit for 30 min “well fed” bonus

Brewfest tickets are given out for service to the Brewmasters. They’re earned primarily as quest rewards. Tickets are soulbound and may be saved and redeemed any time before the end of the season for such (also soulbound) goodies as:

• 50 Tickets:
  • Blue, Brown, Green, and Purple Brewfest Hats
  • Brewfest Pony Keg (Use: Right Click to tap a pony keg of delicious Brewfest Brew, a strong alcoholic beverage)
• 100 Tickets:
  • Brewfest Boots
  • Brewfest Slippers
  • Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles (”Guaranteed…to make EVERYONE look attractive!) - yes, the gnomes and goblins have figured out how to make beer-goggles. These make every humanoid mob look like a gnome (Alliance) or a female orc (Horde).
• 200 Tickets:
  • Brewfest Dress (patterned after the traditional Bavarian dirndl)
  • Brewfest Regalia (a traditional Bavarian outfit including white shirt, vest, and lederhose)
• 600 Tickets:
  • “Honorary Brewer” Hand Stamp - begins a quest which allows the purchase of Racing Rams (normal or swift-speed). These are permanent mounts and are purchased from the Ram Racing Apprentice at the standard price of 10g normal, 100g swift. Now Horde players with dwarf envy can get a Clydesdale-styled riding ram! Note that there’s a minimum of L40 to get the quest.

Quests

Quest givers may be found throughout the festival grounds outside of Orgrimmar and Ironforge. There’s a mix of single quests and repeatable ones. Horde and Alliance have essentially the same quests this season.

Quest	Given By	Description	Reward
[70] Brewfest!	Commoners in each capital city	Speak to the Brewfest Organizer	Mug of Barleybrew Clear, Thunder 45, or Gordok Grog
[70] Welcome to Brewfest!	Brewfest Organizer	Take a free beer!	Mug of Barleybrew Clear, Thunder 45, or Gordok Grog
You can only complete one of the above two quests.
[70] Now This is Ram Racing…Almost	Ram Racing Master	Maintain 3 different levels of speed for 8 seconds each. 4 minute time limit.	Prerequisite to the “There and Back Again” and “Bark for…” dailies and “Did Someone Say, Souvenir”.
	When you take this quest or the daily one, you are given a set of Ram Racing Reins that appear in your inventory (icon looks like a belt). The reins will disappear in 4 minutes, but you can just drop and retake the quest or ask the Ram Riding Apprentice for another set if you accidentally trash them. Click on the Ram Racing Reins to speed up. You will need to keep a steady pulse of clicks to maintain speed. In practice, trot and gallop were fairly easy; the canter (middle speed) was harder. Just click enough so you’re bouncing between trot/canter, click a couple extra times to get well into canter, then resume a rhythmic clicking. If your reins expire, you can get another set from the Ram Racing Apprentice. Your ram builds fatigue while cantering (+1-2/tick) or galloping (+5 per tick), but recovers while trotting (-2/tick) or walking (-4/tick). If the Ram Fatigue buff reaches 100, your ram becomes exhausted and you will crawl along for 15 sec. Ram Fatigue will drop to 85 when the ram’s done being exhausted. Ride the road between the Ram Racing tent and Kharanos/Razor Hill to take advantage of the apple baskets along the road. Passing near them clears your ram fatigue (this takes a little practice to do reliably). To keep your ram from walking forward, you have to actually pull back (S key).
[70] Did Someone Say, “Souvenir”?	Ram Racing Apprentice	Redeem the voucher with Belbi Quikswitch/Blix Fixwidget	Yellow Brewfest Stein ([U] Main Hand DPS: 2.0, Dam: 4-6, Spd: 2.50, Use: Fill me at a Brewfest Festive Keg)
	This quest becomes available after completing the Ram Racing tutorial, [70] Now This is Ram Racing…Almost. The Brewfest Stein can be used to sample the various brewers’ products. After equipping it in your main hand, it can be filled with Jungle River Water, Thunder 45, Gordok Grog, Barleybrew Clear, or Small Step Brew simply by right-clicking the large festive kegs at each brewstand. Note that if you sample brew that is too high a level for you, you will get the “Can’t Hold Your Brew” debuff, which will result in bright glowing green spewage. The free samples are especially useful for the hunting quests. You can use your mug repeatedly until you’re drunk enough to see the strange beasts. The progression is “tipsy” to “drunk” to “smashed.” Typically, getting to “drunk” and then polishing off a couple more mugs is sufficient to complete the hunting quests. Note that alcohol tolerance is related to level and race (dwarves seem to have higher tolerance, for instance); you will need to drink level-appropriate drinks to minimize the number you have to drink. The most cost-efficient high-level drink is the Gordok “Mudder’s Milk”.
[70] Catch the Wild Wolpertinger	Goldark Snipehunter (A) Glodrak Huntsniper (H)	Capture 5 Stunned Wolpertingers using the Wolpertinger Net (supplied). You must be intoxicated to see Wild Wolpertingers.	Wolpertinger’s Tankard (Use: Summons your Wolpertinger pet - note, only you and players who are drunk can see the Wolpertinger)
	The Wolpertingers are all over the area. As neutral mobs, they can be tab-targetted. Right-click the Wolpertinger Net to immobilize one; when the net wears off, you will get credit for the stunned Wolpertinger. Horde characters may want to go out to the road; there are many between the Grounds and the Ram Racing tent.
[70] Pink Elekks on Parade	Goldark Snipehunter (A) Glodrak Huntsniper (H)	Visit the beer gardens outside Stormwind, Darnassus, and the Exodar (A) or Thunder Bluff, Undercity, and Silvermoon City (H). Zap three pink elekks at each location. You must be drunk to see the pink elekks.	40 tickets
	As a side note, the Shattrath beer garden seems to have Teldrassil (Darnassus) Elekks running around, so this can save you a trip to Darnassus if you’re using Shattrath to get to Exodar or Stormwind.
Daily Quests
[70] There and Back Again	Ram Racing Master	Retrieve as many kegs as possible from Kharanos/the road to Razor Hill in 4 min	3 tickets per keg (10 tickets for first run of 3 kegs)
	The first run requires you to fetch 3 kegs in 4 min. Thereafter, you can talk to the Ram Racing Master for the option to help out again. Note that you just need to ride past the supplier or the apprentice in order to catch/dump the Portable Brewfest Keg and get credit. A good run is about 45 sec, assuming you can keep the ram in full gallop and hit the apple baskets to dump fatigue. You get an additional 30 sec for turning in a keg. 7-10 kegs per day (up to 30 tickets) is very doable. This quest can be repeated approximately every 12 hours.
[70] Bark for the…	Brewers at the Thunderbrews, Barleybrews, T’chalis, or Drohns	Bark to commoners at each of 4 flags in the nearby capital	40 tickets
	You can only bark for one vendor per day. Generally, you have to hold to a trot/canter within the city to make the time limit. You just have to ride past the flags to get completion (no yelling or emoting needed). This takes practice, but you can repeat it until you get it right; just abandon the quest if time runs out. Remember that even though you get completion for all the flags, you must still return to the brewer and complete the quest within the time limit. This quest counts against the quota of 10 daily quests per character. Daily quest limits reset at around 3 am server time. For Alliance, one route is to go left at the gate to Ironforge (so you enter Ironforge near the bridge to the bank), cross the bridge to pick up the flag at the bank, turn right and ride counterclockwise to pick up the Military Ward one, keep riding through Tinker Town to reach the Hall of Explorers, then cut back across the Great Forge to pick up the Mystic Ward; when exiting, ride down the mountainside rather than take the road to shave off a few seconds. For Horde, one route is to ride in to pick up the auction house flag, continue through The Drag to the Valley of Honor, wheel around back to The Drag, turning right to head to the Valley of Wisdom, ride between the flags and turn left to get to the Valley of Spirits, ride back to the rim of the valley, bounce off the rooftops back down to the Valley of Strength, ride out the main gate through the ram corral (to clear fatigue with the apple basket there), then gallop in to the vendor. Note that after you’ve completed the four “barks”, you can dismount the racing ram, mount your normal mount, and ride (without fatigue worries) back to the Festival Grounds. (This is a possible oversight that will get fixed at some point)

Practical Notes

The initial quests yield 50 tickets. Doing the two dailies will take around 15 minutes and will typically earn 61-70 tickets (for 7-10 keg runs). If you time it right, you can run the kegs another time each day for another 21-30 tickets. So you could typically expect to be gaining between 60 and 100 tickets a day. The whole Brewfest festival lasts approximately 12 days, yielding 770-1250 tickets for the season. 770 tickets will earn you the right to buy a mount, but you won’t have quite enough to buy the full outfit (hat, shoes, and garb will run you 350 tickets). At the high end, 1250 tickets will allow you to buy the hand stamp, outfit, pony keg, and goggles with change to spare.