The Lazy Cockatrice Area-5: The Brewery

 

The Lazy Cockatrice (Hex 0203)

Area-5: The Brewery 

Connected to the common room by huge double doors, the Brewery has a high ceiling with hoists hanging from it and iron-grated ventilation windows. There used to be rooms above the Brewery,  but guests sometimes got ill from fumes when brewing is in progress. They have since torn out the floors of those rooms and turned it into a storage gantry.

A hatch in the floor connects to the beer cellar below. Barrels can be lifted by the hoist and set down right at the doors to the bar.

Older barrels are left against the outside walls of the Brewery to collect rainwater.

Gerald Ardin's younger son, Alan Ardin (age 14) spends most of his time here obsessively trying to refine family recipes. He has a monomanaical obsession with brewing and fine beers, and encyclopedic knowledge of Gallain brews in particular. Gerald and Alan have a deep bond over beer brewing and work together to make contest beers every Summer for the brewers' competition in Alliri.

The red ale ("Cockatrice's Comb"), spiced wheat beer ("Cock-feather"), and herbal porter ("Petrified Porter") are all excellent.  The "Stone Egg Stout" still needs some work .