Well, wid ye look at that!  It’s almost Brewfest time again – Brilliant! Time tae get my mug and git ready fer some heavy boozin’ an’ eatin’!

My thoughts on last years update of Brewfest can be found here. Just a run-down of the achievements, as I can’t say much for certain about the other parts of the event yet!

Achievements

• Meta: Brewmaster(A), Brewmaster (H)

• Strange Brew (A), Strange Brew (H)
• Brew of the Month
• Direbrewfest
• Disturbing the Peace
• Does your Wolpertinger Linger?
• The Brewfest Diet
• Drunken Stupor
• Down With the Dark Iron
• Have Keg, Will Travel

• Brew of the Year

Quick-Reference Tips

Strange Brew / The Brewfest Diet – There are three sets of vendors in each Brewfest camp, each of whom will procure for you their own brands of liquor!  Make sure to visit them all, and have a jolly good time getting sloshed.  Similarly, various vendors in the encampment sell the foods needed for the Brewfest Diet – make sure you have plenty of bag-room when you head there!

Brew of the Month – The token to join this comes from the token redeemer – just grab one and then use the item and enjoy a year-round selection of drunken fun from your mailbox.

Direbrewfest – Apparently Coren Direbrew is being updated to level 80 with appropriate rewards.  I haven’t been able to find any more information on this, I’m afraid.  When you enter BRD, look to your right hand side – there should be some dwarves who you should kill and then use the tunnelling machine.  Last year people didn’t have to complete the small quest chain that’s available as a breadcrumb to him before going to BRD but it’s worth double checking.

Disturbing the Peace – This involves getting three pieces of Brewfest Regalia and doing a simple /dance in Dalaran.

Does your Wolpertinger Linger – These darling, odd little pets can be bought from Brewfest NPCs.  Wowhead lists them as being sold by Ray’ma(H), and Larkin Thunderbrew(A) in the Valley of Spirits near the portal and in Ironforge in the Inn near the entrance respectively.  Oddly, I was sure I bought mine from a vendor in the Brewfest camp last year so it might be worth checking those before making the trip into the cities!

Drunken Stupor -This is as simple as getting drunk and doing what you did to get Going Down.  For those who’ve never done that achievement or have a bad memory – using levitation effects (levitate, slowfall, parachute) or landing in water will not work, but damage reduction abilities (ice block, divine shield, passive rogue / kitty) will.

Down With the Dark Iron – Around every half-hour a whole pile of dark iron dwarves spawn in the brewfest camp – you can grab a brew from one of the tables (the type you’d normally drink), and throw it at a Dark Iron Dwarf to incapacitate them.  When you throw your mug, one of the npcs around the edge of the camp will throw another to you to use – so you can bring it to a key and spam away merrily.  You want to do this, as if they are defeated they will leave a cogwheel behind them which will give you the quest required for this achievement.

Brew of the year is not requires for the Brewmaster meta achievement – so no worries if you didn’t pick this up last year.  A big congratulations to all those who’ll be completing What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been – my break means I missed the Fire Festival so no shiny for me, but I expect to see a whole lot of people on bright, new pink proto-drakes!

_{(ps – no your eyes aren’t deceiving you, this is a /hug post.  I’m tentatively playing WoW very casually again and may be just as tentatively updating the blog again!  For more frequent updates, follow me on twitter @aurik)}