Master Brewer  

Monster

Minimum Level: 15
Maximum Level: 17
Expansion: Original
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2019-07-13 16:33:22

Known Habitats:
  Blackburrow
Factions Increased:
  Silent Fist Clan +1
  Jaggedpine Treefolk +1
  Guards of Qeynos +1
  Merchants of Qeynos +1
Factions Decreased:
  Sabertooths of Blackburrow -5

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165 spawns and 20 brewers but 0 master brewers
# Mar 22 2024 at 10:09 AM Rating: Decent
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It took me 165 spawns to get 3 casks. I saw 20 gnoll brewers, 145 gnoll guardsman, and 0 master brewers. I also killed about 10 spawns before I started keeping track, which were all guardsmen. I saw brewers on spawn number 4, 7, 8, 29, 38, 49, 51, 55 (cask), 69, 92, 93 (cask), 109, 134, 138, 142, 145, 146, 147, 161, and 165 (cask). Spawn rates are between 13.5 minutes and 17.5 minutes usually. And yes, the brewer/guard spawns around -32,-32 and then wanders over to the barrels after maybe 10 minutes. They do eventually wander back to the water as well. I also posted this information on the quest link.

There have been comments that the Master Brewer can spawn on the top level with the wandering mob (bear, gnoll, rat) being his placeholder. I killed the placeholder quite often during my camping. Maybe close to 100 times, and I never saw the Master Brewer spawn on the top level. I never saw him on the bottom either. I will probably never see him.
Mammoth Skin
# Jul 07 2019 at 6:45 AM Rating: Decent
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218 posts
Dropped a Mammoth Skin but no cask.
faction log of kill
# Aug 20 2016 at 8:57 AM Rating: Good
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After about 2 hours of hunting the gnoll guardsman who pops by the water and wanders between the water and the barrels under the bridge, the Master Brewer spawned and dropped the cask! :)

[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] Your faction standing with Sabertooths of Blackburrow has been adjusted by -5.
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] Your faction standing with Guards of Qeynos has been adjusted by 1.
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] Your faction standing with Silent Fist Clan has been adjusted by 1.
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] Your faction standing with Jaggedpine Treefolk has been adjusted by 1.
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] Your faction standing with Merchants of Qeynos has been adjusted by 1.
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] You receive 3 gold as your split.
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:29 2016] You have slain Master Brewer!
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:35 2016] --You have looted a Blackburrow Gnoll Pelt.--
[Sat Aug 20 10:52:38 2016] --You have looted a Blackburrow Cask.--

Hunted another 6 hours, got a couple of gnoll brewers to spawn, no luck. Next morning took me a 2 hours to get second cask from another Master Brewer and then after another hour a third from a gnoll brewer. Whew!

Edited, Aug 21st 2016 12:02pm by drool
5 hours
# May 16 2008 at 6:01 AM Rating: Decent
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took me 5 hours of killing the gnoll guardsman to spawn him and he did drop cask.
Cask and MB
# Aug 27 2004 at 8:41 AM Rating: Default
The master Brewer spawned last night. No Cask :(
-----Dradorin
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Edited, Fri Aug 27 09:44:51 2004
extra loot
# Dec 10 2002 at 12:37 PM Rating: Decent
killed him last night - easy peesy of course for 42. dropped the cask & Assorted Research prt 2 (?) anyone know what that is for?
Dropped one today
# Nov 11 2002 at 9:49 AM Rating: Default
I now have Planes of Power and I decided to go to Qeynos and then to BB to see if the Brewer's were up. I zoned in to BB and went to where they spawn and the Master Brewer was there. I killed it easily and it had a Cask on it. As a 34 Ranger its not much of a fight but I will stop in now and then to try to get 2 more Casks for the Jaggedpine Cloak quest. While there I do share my buffs with others as I do remember the difficulty here as a new Ranger.
RE: Dropped one today
# Apr 03 2003 at 10:52 PM Rating: Default
OMFG u have PoP DO YOU WANT A COOKIE??!?!?!
Level of this guy?
# Mar 25 2002 at 8:55 PM Rating: Decent
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I'm curious if he's changed levels a bit, or simply my level 10 shaman had the bad fortune to run up against the max level for his spawn.

Blackburrow was absolutely empty in the wee hours of Saturday night. My shaman had just come from Halas, where a level 58 shammy had not only been gracious enough to give my entirely-untwinked lvl 10 a Smoldering Brand (darn nice weapon for the level!) but also gave me a sweet set of buffs - HOS, chloroplast, DEX, SOW. Needless to say I was feeling quite badass (despite still being decked in a combo of patched, tattered and regular leather, no jewelry) at that moment... I ran down to the med room, turned towards the water, and gasped as who was standing there? The Master Brewer!

Very red. Sooo red, but I waded in nonetheless. Even with chloro, and HOS and whatever (I was up to 429 HP), he got me down to under a bulb of health before I finished him off. (Didn't help a patrolling gnoll joined in). Was worth a full yellow of exp solo, plus the cask.

It's too bad the cask can't be used as a portible brewing device. That would be sooooo sweet!

His lvl is much lower
# Mar 24 2002 at 1:56 PM Rating: Default
I killed him yesterday. He conned blue to my lvl 10 Monk, who gave him a good beating and took his cask : )
RE: His lvl is much lower
# May 09 2003 at 3:45 AM Rating: Default
19 posts
You probably killed the gnoll brewer. The master brewer is a bit higher. Myself and a lvl 9 rogue **** him out last night and he conned red to me. The only reason I survived was because a nice cleric gave me a buff which gave me more than 1000 hp's. He hit me for hits up to 32.
Possible spawn spot and quest upgrade
# Feb 25 2002 at 7:37 AM Rating: Decent
Hi, two days ago I was doing a gnoll elite guard hunt in BB and came back to the zone towards QHills to buff a friend's character. Then we suddenly saw the Master Brewer standing right next to me. At level 1, a bit ahead and right from the small tunnel after the zone. It was standing there at the exact spot where always some kind of gnoll spawns, in full health, just standing around. So this may be an occasional or rare spawnpoint for him as well. Fact is, that if someone would have trained him to the zone, he would have started walking back to his original spawn spot, eh? - Naturally I killed the Master Brewer immediately and got the casket to boot! :)

About the Cloak of the JaggedPine quest; The NPC mentions something about that they may 'someday upgrade the cloak, you never know'. My theory is, that this is perhaps a hint towards that there might be some extra stat added to it at a certain level (a level on which people probably have already ditched for a better item?). A bit in the way as some weapons start giving damage bonusses once you improve in level (these are then suddenly listed when you look at the item). Again, it is just a theory. A high lvl Ranger who still has the cloak somewhere in the bank can perhaps confirm or deny this ;)
bb casks
# Feb 07 2002 at 3:00 AM Rating: Default
all i know is that this cloak better be upgradeable like the ranger says i have camped it for forty hours and have only got one cask
RE: bb casks
# Feb 11 2002 at 1:09 AM Rating: Default
49 posts
You have a long wait for nothing. They haven't upgraded the quest since it came out.
level
# Nov 05 2001 at 8:51 PM Rating: Default
when i was level 12 it conned yellow to me so it cant be that hight , i also killed 2 with buffs
#Anonymous, Posted: Nov 05 2001 at 1:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this gnoll is the worst... after i have beenb killing him, he was running around bb lots of times.. i had died 4 times trying to kick hius ***... he was very easy.. he ran away.. i tried chasing him with my level 15 war... hehehe now that i am level 60.. i killed him kn about 6 secons.. which had made me very very very very very proud
#Anonymous, Posted: Feb 13 2002 at 6:04 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) ... and.. and..... and .... and .... and .... i hope you love overdoing the ... because i really do...
#Anonymous, Posted: Nov 05 2001 at 1:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this gnoll is the worst... after i have beenb killing him, he was running around bb lots of times.. i had died 4 times trying to kick hius ***... he was very easy.. he ran away.. i tried chasing him with my level 15 war... hehehe now that i am level 60.. i killed him kn about 6 secons.. which had made me very very very very very proud
DARN GNOLLS
# Nov 05 2001 at 1:54 PM Rating: Default
this gnoll is the worst... after i have beenb killing him, he was running around bb lots of times.. i had died 4 times trying to kick hius ***... he was very easy.. he ran away.. i tried chasing him with my level 15 war... hehehe now that i am level 60.. i killed him kn about 6 secons.. which had made me very very very very very proud
#Anonymous, Posted: Nov 05 2001 at 1:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this gnoll is the worst... after i have beenb killing him, he was running around bb lots of times.. i had died 4 times trying to kick hius ***... he was very easy.. he ran away.. i tried chasing him with my level 15 war... hehehe now that i am level 60.. i killed him kn about 6 secons.. which had made me very very very very very proud
#Anonymous, Posted: Nov 05 2001 at 1:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) this gnoll is the worst... after i have beenb killing him, he was running around bb lots of times.. i had died 4 times trying to kick hius ***... he was very easy.. he ran away.. i tried chasing him with my level 15 war... hehehe now that i am level 60.. i killed him kn about 6 secons.. which had made me very very very very very proud
Killed master brewer at 11
# Oct 24 2001 at 4:17 PM Rating: Default
I killed Master Brewer with my lvl 11 rogue. My Rogue was not twinked, I had not a single buff. The Master Brewer nor I had any prior dmg to my engaging him. When I finished him off he had barely even scratched me. He very may well be a lvl18 to 20 though and he was just getting bad rolls. I can tell you this...he was very hard to hit and it seemed like I had hit him nearly 100 or more times before he dropped. I got the cask as well...and I am positive that it was the master Brewer as I have witnesses from my guild who were laughing cause they watched me chase him back and forth as he ran...god...I don't even know how long I chased that boy around BB...
----Merker (BladeMasters)
Quests
# Oct 18 2001 at 9:33 PM Rating: Default
Only quests i know of for the casks is the BB Brewers quest (for the Cloak of Jaggedpine) and the rogue burning raiper quest (for the burning raiper)
lvl is wrong
# Sep 18 2001 at 10:23 PM Rating: Default
There is no way he is lv 18-20. He conned blue to my lvl 16 warrior!
Cask information
# Aug 26 2001 at 11:35 AM Rating: Default
I killed the master brewer once and gat a cask, i have killed the regular brewers about 6 times and have only gatten one cask, the last one i paid 30pp for, gat my cloak, and was very happy. The best thing to do is not set there and camp this guy straight, but rather camp him one or two spawns every time you pass by and hope you get lucky.

Myrdale Forestroamer
Lvl 49 Half Elf Ranger
<Justice Lords>
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