Brewing and distilling

Brewing and distilling is a gameplay feature in Fallout 76, introduced in the Wild Appalachia update. It was officially released with patch 1.1.0.8.

This feature allows the player character to craft alcoholic beverages at a brewing station. These include beers, wines, spirits, and other drinks. Some of these beverages will require fermentation to reach their full potency.

A fermenter can be used to speed up the process. Short fermentation requires the fermentable item to sit for 60 minutes in a player character's inventory or stash (using a fermenter halves that to 30 minutes), while long fermentation requires 120 minutes (60 minutes with a fermenter). In order to gain access to the brewing and distilling feature, the player character must start and complete Wasted on Nukashine.