Interactive Recipe Preview

Choose a drink in Distillery Drinks or /hld menu. Its recipe opens with an example that produces that result. Six ingredient slots appear in two columns of three by default; repeated and mixed ingredients are supported. Click a slot to choose from the categorized ingredient picker, or right-click the main slot to cycle. In the picker, left-click selects the whole ingredient. Right-click selects skinned grapes or roasted grain where applicable. These are preview choices: your inventory is not consumed or changed.

The process icons also act as controls. Boiling starts in AUTO: grain and rice include the step, while other inputs omit it. Click Boil to skip it, or click Ferment when boiling is omitted to add it. An explicit ON or OFF choice is remembered when you change ingredients. You can ferment raw grain or rice; boiling first earns full process-quality credit without changing ABV. Forcing boiling on an unsupported fruit mash shows an unavailable method because there is no fruit-wort boiling recipe.

With boiling shown, the process row is Mash → Boil → Ferment → Distillation → Aging, followed by Wood, Climate and Secondary Fermentation. Without boiling, those process controls move forward by one position after Mash. Reset stays in zero-based slot 34 for every drink, including Rosé, regardless of boiling or secondary fermentation. Hiding age-dependent controls does not shift the remaining positions again. Distillation cycles through 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21; a custom administrator preset can retain its exact count until you change that control. The preview assumes Normal ingredient quality. Reset Recipe restores the example you opened, including AUTO boiling, and Back returns to your catalog page. Catalog and picker pages use the shared navigation arrows.

At zero aging, wood and climate controls are hidden; their selections are retained and restored when aging is enabled. Secondary fermentation is shown only for grape wine with no distillation. Its selection is also retained while hidden. Hidden settings do not affect the result. Sugar and Brown Mushroom appear separately from the mash when secondary fermentation is active.

The result appears on the right and updates with the drink's name, ordinary quality, ABV range and chemistry. Guidance consistently shows Next improvement: followed by the next useful step, or Ready as shown. Ready describes the current result, not an unfinished later style. Its cl range is the equivalent dose of a 40% spirit, calculated from that ABV range and the serving volume. Changing controls does not roll a batch, create a real drink or add to your brewing history. Actual strength and the Perfect outcome use the single value saved when a real mash is created.

Default aging choices are 0, 1, 3, 14, 60 and 360 cellar days. A single readable line combines cellar and real time, for example ⏳Aging: 14 days · (4h40m) or 360 days · (120h) at the default clock; administrator-configured recipe durations are preserved. Ordered treatments explain when to change planks: the default finished whiskies use 45 days of Oak or Dark Oak followed by 15 days of Cherry or Acacia.