Probably Stolen Winemaking: The Recipe and What Sets the Tier

The recipe is the easy part of winemaking. The in-game Blossomberry Wine Fermenting Guide states it plainly: 1-2 berries, 750 ml of liquid, yeast optional, plus time. What decides what a bottle is worth is liquid grade, berry grade and yeast type.

Unlock it first, or the supplies never appear

Wine runs through Joe Wild’s network, where you buy the wine making kit. Player testing puts it at 200 favour, and favour trades 1:1 with credits. Without the kit, winemaking supplies — bottles and yeast — do not show up in trades at all. The official announcements only confirm that Wild’s Network carries water-related upgrades and that the Bottle Printer can be upgraded with electronic parts; the developer has not published the kit’s price.

The recipe and one fermentation

1. Take a wine bottle and add 750 ml of liquid (a sealed water ration is the usual early source).
2. Add 1-2 berries. Two usually produces the better bottle.
3. Add yeast — the guide marks it optional, but player testing strongly recommends never skipping it.
4. Start fermenting. The bottle gains an airlock icon and the description states the number of days. It cannot be rushed: if it says two days, it is two days.

Player-measured fermentation times: four days with no yeast, two with standard yeast, one with quick yeast. A yeast bioreactor behaves like standard yeast but is returned immediately, so you can start the next bottle straight away.

The three levers

Liquid grade. The guide says not to use anything worse than base water, and not to use pure. Player testing found higher-grade water produces higher-tier wine. The water pipeline itself is on the water page.

Berry grade. The easiest lever to ignore: without a magnifier, winemaking is gambling. Berries come as normal, underripe, old and mouldy, and you have to check each one before it goes in.

Yeast type. It is not just a speed setting. Player testing found that skipping yeast carries a real chance of producing an undrinkable bottle worth nothing. Paying for yeast to protect a bottle usually beats saving it.

How a bottle is priced

Wine has a property no other good has: it gains value over time. Player testing measured a few credits per night with no obvious ceiling, so a bottle is an asset rather than stock to dump.

The tiers run from an undrinkable bottom tier worth nothing upward through names like bucket brew, production wine, reserve and luxury. Those names and values come from recorded runs, not from a published table, so no price table appears here. Buyers are tiered too: the demo patch states that Premium Spring Water only sells to Upper Level customers — good goods wait for the right customer.

Three demo changes that date the old guides

• Pouring wine into a liquid container now produces Wine Extract and changes the liquid’s colour (added September 14, 2026).
• The Bottle Printer can be upgraded with electronic parts to unlock the normal and large printers.
• A bug that stopped you drinking wine made before a reload (while alcohol-addicted) is fixed.

Every number above about prices, days and tiers comes from playtest-era player testing, and the demo changed the three things listed here — so do not treat footage values as fixed.

What is still unmeasured

The developer has published no wine tier table, no daily appreciation formula, no yeast success rates and no mapping from berry grade to tier. Until that changes, treat your own build as the source of truth.

Once wine is running, the next bottlenecks are bottle and fruit supply and an outlet for worn consumables — the underground exchange takes some of that off your hands, and rat farming is the usual side line that keeps a production slot busy.