Alcohol Guide

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Introduction

This guide will mostly focus on scotch creation as scotch is a unique profession on Asylum as one of the few that gains you money "Passively" meaning you can make money off scotch while doing other things.

Gathering Materials

Your first choice is to decide what alcohol you are going to make. Each has its own benefits and requirements.

There is now an interactive Google Chrome Addon you can use to calculate your Alcohol runs!
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Use at your own risk as bugs are destined to be prevalent.

Fig. 1: Barley Bush


  • Moonshine (Corn, Water, Yeast) - Least profit of the three however does not require a house and is recommended for those just starting out.
    Fig. 2: Elephant Grass
  • Corn/Rye Whiskey (Corn or Rye, Water, Yeast, Barley) - Medium profit and requires the most ingredients however ages much faster than scotch. (Requires house with aging barrel)
  • Scotch (Water, Yeast, Barley) - Maximum profit and an Asylum favorite and is highly recommended for intermediate and experienced players. (Requires house with aging barrel)

Where to get Ingredients

  • Water ($7 ea.) & Yeast ($15 ea.) can be purchased from a market.
  • Barley, is found all across the island, simply scroll wheel on the bush (See fig. 1). Additionally, you may choose to pick berries from these bushes; you will receive 1-3 berries which when consumed replenish a small amount of hunger and thirst. However, it does consume the barley bush.
  • Corn & Rye, Both are found in what is known as elephant grass (aka. Reeds). Elephant grass is found all over the island but extremely plentiful near the distillery; again simply scroll wheel on the grass and harvest either rye or corn (See fig. 2)

Distilling

Now that you have your materials it's time to load up and head to the distillery. This is when you are most exposed, so its good to be prepared. No matter which alcohol you have chosen to make, you will need to have equal parts of ingredients to make the desired product. ((One Water + Yeast + Barley = 1 New make Scotch)) Go up to the distillery, which is already marked on your map, where you will find a small shack with a distillery, scroll wheel on the distillery to create your alcohol. Once the progress bar has been completed, the created alcohol will be placed into your inventory.

Fig3: Distillery
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Fig4: Ageing barrels in a home

Ageing (Scotch)

Ageing requires a Barrel, which is placed in your player home and holds 67 scotch at a time. There are four stages for scotch (New make, Scotch, 15yr, 25yr,) The formula for ageing is as follows - To age your product:

Place the un-aged alcohol in your barrel. Your product will begin to "age" over several server restarts in set increments. For Scotch, it ages 20 per stage per restart. Keep in mind every time the server restarts you MUST log in go to your house and scroll wheel to "Show storage" otherwise it will not age.

Ageing Example

Assuming what you had 100 scotch in your barrel, this is what it would look like over many restarts, courtesy of Bikstok:

  • Start: [100] New Make Scotch
  • 1st Restart: [20] Scotch; [80] New Make Scotch
  • 2nd Restart: [20] 15 year Scotch; [20] scotch; [60] New Make Scotch
  • 3rd Restart: [20] 25 year Scotch; [20] 15 year Scotch; [20] Scotch; [40] New Make Scotch
  • 4th Restart: [40] 25 year Scotch; [20] 15 year Scotch; [20] Scotch; [20] New Make Scotch
  • 5th Restart: [60] 25 year Scotch; [20] 15 year Scotch; [20] Scotch
  • 6th Restart: [80] 25 year Scotch; [20] 15 year Scotch
  • 7th Restart: [100] 25 year scotch
  • It will look the same for Whiskey, except it will be aging 60 at a time


Selling

Selling is the final step, carefully make your way to a Wong's Food and Liquor and sell your product, then make your way to an ATM and deposit your new found wealth! Keep in mind the cartel takes a 8% cut of all liquor bought and sold on Altis.

Base Payout

25 Year Scotch = $1050 ea.

15 Year Scotch = $640 ea.

Reserve Corn Whiskey = $455 ea.

Moonshine = $230 ea.

Increasing Payout

  • Owning "Wong Triad" will remove the cartel cut when selling.
  • Having both gang perks Fence and Bootlegger will increase your payout by 10% ((5% ea.))
  • As Scotch is extremely popular, the market is often flooded, thus lowering the worth of scotch; use your market app on your in-game phone (Y to open) to choose the best time to sell your supply and maximize profit.

Tips & Tricks

  • Small and quick scotch runs will limit your vulnerability.
  • Houses close to the distillery ((Abdera)) often go for well over a million dollars when sold and are highly preferred by most scotch runners due to the increased safety of a scotch run.
  • Scotch sells for the most money if you're ageing in bulk.
  • You must be online during a restart for it to count for ageing, however, it will age if you're in the lobby over restart.
  • While only a set amount can age, you can have multiple barrels to multiply the process.
  • Moonshine doesn't need to be aged.
  • You can have any configuration of ageing barrels/crates in your house.
  • All the ingredients have a weight of 1, and every stage of alcohol weighs 3.
  • Barley, Corn, and Rye are LITERALLY everywhere.

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