Beer

<ul><li>"social" is not in the list (None, Medical, Social, Hard, Any) of allowed values for the "Drug Category" property.</li> <li>"chemical" is not in the list (Chemical, Gluttonous, Meditative, Social, Gaming_Dexterity, Gaming_Cerebral, Television, Telescope, Reading, HighCulture) of allowed values for the "Joy Kind" property.</li></ul>

Beer is a beverage product that provides a little food replenishment and joy. While not so nutritionally effective, its main use is to improve a colonist's mood to prevent mental breaks. But, overuse may lead to alcohol addiction. The default drug policy setting is both for addicted and for joy.

Production

Beer is produced in three steps:

Plant hops, which is an easy task.
Construction of a Brewery (research required), to process 25 hops for 5 units of wort, a task that requires a cook to perform the action, another relatively easy task assuming the colony has enough meals to divert the cook to other purposes.
Place 25 units of wort into a fermenting barrel for 10 days. The difficulty of this depends greatly on your biome and its current weather conditions, as the room hosting the barrels must be kept between -1°C (30°F) and 32°C (90°F). Temperatures below this value will only halt the process, but any above it will waste the whole product and all the previous work.

Colonist taking beer out of fermenting barrel, ready for consumption.

Inebriation

Consuming beer raises a colonist's alcohol level by 15% per beer. Alcohol level, not displayed precisely in-game, determines inebriation level and falls automatically over time. Once a colonist becomes drunk the game records it so it may be used later in an art description.

Label	Alcohol Level (%)	Mood (+)	Pain Reduction (%)	Consciousness (%)	Social fight chance	Other effects
Buzzed-hidden	<10	-	-	-	-	-
Warm	10	10	10	-	x1.5	manipulation -2%
Tipsy	25	15	20	-10	x2.5	moving -5%
Drunk	40	20	50	-30	x4	moving -10%
Hammered	70	25	70	-50	x5	moving -10%
Blackout	90	25	90	10% max	-	-

Addiction

Once a colonist develops Alcohol addiction, a new bar called "Alcohol" will appear in their "Needs" tab. The colonist will consume beer when the bar is low enough. Abstinence will cause the colonist to enter a withdrawal period that adds a negative thought with a -35 mood penalty which is necessary if intending to cure the addiction. Recovery can be monitored by checking the "Health" tab. Once withdrawal reaches 100%, the character will lose the addiction.

Hangover

Once a colonist reaches a drunk state, they will go through the hangover stages after their inebriation wears off. If a colonist drinks beer while hungover they will be both hungover and inebriated.

Label	Mood	Side Effects
Hungover (pounding)	-10	consciousness -18%, vomiting
Hungover (strong)	-5	consciousness -8%
Hungover (slight)	-2	consciousness -3%

Long-term Effects

When a pawn has a visible tolerance to Alcohol, they may develop Cirrhosis of the liver in a mean time of 60 in-game days (or 1 year), which permanently hinders their consciousness, blood filtration, and blood pumping - and the only way to cure Cirrhosis is to perform a liver transplant. Additionally, a Major or worse Carcinoma (with a minimum severity of 0.5) may develop in the liver in a mean time of 180 in-game days (3 years), again being fixable either via transplant, or removed by a skilled doctor. Animals cannot have transplants.

Chemical damage can occur in the brain while unconscious in a mean time of 10 days' spent blacked out, which reduces consciousness to 50%, significantly reducing performance. There is no way to perform brain surgery.