9.37.10 Beverages

HELP BEVERAGES

See also HELP BEVERAGE DESIGN, HELP VESSEL DESIGN, and HELP CRAFTING GUIDELINES

The Beverages tradeskill allows for the design, creation, and storage of a 
vast variety of drinks and victuals. In many ways a counterpart to cooking, 
the domain of the beverage maker is varied and diverse - ranging from simple
juices and teas to award-winning beers, perfectly distilled spirits, and even 
vintage, cellar-aged wines. 

Whether a consumer or a connoisseur, Beverages allows an unparalleled depth of
self expression in all things related to drinks. And you can even swig your
twenty year old cognac from a teacup if you so desire!

To become a professional beverage-maker, you must be trained by the craft guild
of Delos.

You must be above level 10 to access the beverages tradeskill.

BUY BEVERAGES PERMIT
   - Use this command at "A cool cellar" in Delos.
   - This will cost 200 credits.
   - If you have a bronze trade seal, please READNEWS ANNOUNCE 4247
   - Once purchased, this permit will show up on SCORE LICENSES.
   - This will never expire and cannot be traded in.

GAINING THE BEVERAGES SKILL
   - Make sure you have Bought your Beverages Permit as per above!
   - Make sure you have a tradeskill slot empty
   - TRADESKILLS will show your tradeskill slots
   - SCORE LICENSES will show how many slots you have in full.
   - Visit Amarisse, Secretary of the Crafting Council
   - ASK AMARISSE GAIN BEVERAGES.

Once you are a licensed beverage maker, you will have basic ability in the
Beverages tradeskill.

There are four specialisations within the Beverages profession:

Each of these specialisations requires a point invested in it in order to 
design and create related drinks, 1 point is given at inept, another at 
fabled, and a third at transcendent.

SPECIALISE IN <spec>   - Spend a point in one of the specialisations.
UNSPECIALISE BEVERAGES - Will cost 100 lessons and reset your specialisations. 

Fermentation 
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Fermentation is the domain of the wine and beer specialist, allowing the
creation and design of various ales, porters, wines, and the like.

Someone specialised in fermentation can submit a design for a fermented drink, 
FERMENT the drink once approved, place the fermented drink in a cellar to age, 
and then fill the finished drink into drinking vessels to be drunk!

(See HELP BEVERAGES DESIGN)

Distillation
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Distillation concerns itself with the design and creation of various spirits, 
including but not limited to vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, and so on.

Someone specialised in distillation can submit a design for a distilled drink, 
DISTILL the drink once approved, place the distilled drink in a cellar to age, 
and then fill the finished drink into drinking vessels to be drunk!

(See HELP BEVERAGES DESIGN)

Refreshments
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Refreshments is the matter of designing and creating a variety of 
immediately-drinkable beverages. Typically the domain of non-alcoholic 
drinks, the refreshment specialist is however also able to mix cocktails as 
well as steep teas and kawhes, and press juices and cordials.

Someone specialised in refreshments can submit a design for a mixed, steeped, 
or pressed drink, MIX/STEEP/PRESS the drink once approved, and pour into 
drinking vessels to be drunk!

(See HELP BEVERAGES DESIGN)

Vessels
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To specialise in vessels is to pride oneself not on the drink itself but the 
container in which it resides. Often an elaborate vessel can mask a bland and 
pedestrian drink, and the opposite is also true! Those taking up the Vessels 
craft shall find themselves able to design a variety of drinking containers, 
ranging from traditional wine glasses and sophisticated snifters to a simple 
mug or a drinking horn.

These vessels can then be used to serve fermented, distilled, mixed, pressed, or steeped drinks!

Anyone with access to a vessel NDS id# can request vessels be made by one of
the following denizens.

Vessels only describe the actual vessel, not the beverage it may eventually
contain. There is an aspect in beverage design (INVESSEL) that will add a
description of the beverage itself when it is in the vessel. 


Glassworkers, including Jessie in New Thera will make glass-based vessels.
Potters, including Gazban in El'Jazira will make clay-based vessels.
Stonemasons, including Palusta in Xhaiden Dale will make stone-based vessels.
Woodcarvers, including Tobe in Caer Witrin will make wood and bone-based vessels.
Blacksmiths, including Rico in New Thera will make metal-based vessels.
Leatherworkers, including Vanac in Bitterfork will make leather-based vessels.


All non-barrel/cask/keg equipment can be bought at "a cool cellar" in Delos. 

(See HELP VESSEL DESIGN)