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Brewmaster: The Craft Beer Game

Players

2-5

Time

?-?

Age

16+

Weight

1.62

Rating

5.60

Fit

Teach 2.7

Teaching signal

Replay 4.1

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.2

Scales well

Strategy 4.6

Deep strategy

Control 3.8

More strategic control

Table feel

Brewmaster: The Craft Beer Game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic confrontation. Players frequently need to pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, there is not a strong emphasis on cooperation in the game. Overall, the game has a good level of player interaction.

Replay value

Brewmaster: The Craft Beer Game has a high replayability score due to its variability in gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with multiple paths to victory and variable setups. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing the replay value. There is significant room for players to improve their strategy over time, discovering new tactics and strategies. The game adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, it offers a rewarding and engaging experience for players.

Luck profile

Brewmaster: The Craft Beer Game has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have minimal impact on the game outcome, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

From the publisher/designer: Players combine ingredient cards to produce six beer styles including ale, stout and Belgian. In doing so players use some of the 90 cards representing real beer ingredients. After producing beer players place chips (representing crowds) onto the laminated game board (so that it can be played on a bar table). As the game continues players try to make better beer and steal crowds from each other. The game is heavily influenced by event cards, which are drawn after players brew beer. The event deck represents some of the real triumphs/tragedies that have taken place in the craft beer world, such as the brewer who loses his green scrubie in the heat exchanger and loses a turn. The event deck also contains beer festivals and the dreaded Big Breweries card. The player with the most beer festival trophies and crowd markers wins the game. The game is good for game fans as well as experienced and novice beer lovers and their friends.

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Credits

Designers

2
Mike White Chris White (II)

Publishers

1
Cold Creek Publishing Co.

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