Brewfest Brewfest is a holiday loosely based on the Bavarian . It contains quests and novelty things such as outfits , kegs , and riding rams . In 2008 , it began on 20 September and continued until 4 October . The main events are just outside of Ironforge and Orgrimmar , although there are also beer gardens set up outside of all the major cities ( Silvermoon City , Darnassus , Undercity , Stormwind City , Thunder Bluff , the Exodar , and Shattrath ) . The only small exception to this is Shattrath ; its beer garden is between the Aldor / Scryer elevators , likely so the city ' s sanctuary status would continue to be easily maintained . There are even to be seen within this area by the inebriated . Brew and buffs . Brewfest is about brew , and the brew is good , and is cheap or free . There are three brew vending stalls in the Brewfest celebrations , selling brews for various levels . Two sell faction specific brew selections , and both celebrations have neutral ogre brew vendors . The brews vended by the brewers are both alcoholic ( inebriating ) , refresh mana like a drink , and provide a well fed buff , similar to the Rumsey Rums . The brewers have representatives at other cities vending the same brews . There are three vendors vending three kinds of brew each , several tiered by level allowed to drink and a few high end brews with different buffs . The prices are good relative to similar mana refreshments . Beware , these Brewfest libation items , labeled " requires Brewfest " , disappear when Brewfest ends . Note that Shattrath City has a small celebration with three brew vendors . Whereas the other cities ' vendors are strictly faction specific , not counting the ogre vendors common to both factions , one of the vendors in Shattrath is a neutral goblin wearing a dwarf mask selling dwarven Thunderbrews , who will sell to both factions . The third vendor in Shattrath is an Orc selling Drohn ' s brews , who will not sell to Alliance characters . There are also four smaller stalls , three selling food , a bread vendor , a cheese vendor , and a sausage vendor , and one wine vendor selling other normally available inebriating drinks . The food vendors sell both special Brewfest items and normal vended food . The specific Brewfest foods have a well fed buff and cost half as much as similar level vendor food that do not provide a buff . Beware , these Brewfest repast items , labeled " requires Brewfest " , also disappear when Brewfest ends . These vendors are at the main celebrations only . These vendors will not sell cross - faction , but the same Brewfest food is available from both factions vendors . There is an achievement , , , to sample each purchasable Brewfest brew , and an achievement , , to sample each purchasable Brewfest food . You must be at least level 65 to complete these achievements . The brews requiring above level 65 are not part of the achievement . The drink items also count toward the achievement , but of the Brewfest food items , only counts toward the achievement . ( This may be a change from previous years . ) One sample brew , a choice of three , is given as a reward by the lead - in quest to find the Brewfest . This includes an option for the lowest brew that anyone can drink , thus , all can participate . This sample is the same item as you would purchase from one of the brew vendors , and counts toward the drinking achievements . 2015 . Updated drops from : Speeches from faction leaders ( and ) by their camps at 6 : 15 AM and PM Pacific time will give , and then give everyone special experience buff , ( 2 hour buff which persists through death ) , nearby . 2013 . New pandaren NPC vendors : New Mists of Pandaria items added : Updated drops from : Also from : 2012 . Since Mists of Pandaria is scheduled to release September 25 , 2012 , the original date range of September 20 - October 5 gave players only a little over a week to level to 90 for the new . Because of confusion on how the event would work and whether or not Coren would be killable pre - September 25 and also an outcry over the fact that he might not be , Blizz ard announced that they would be pushing the event forward by just over a week ( Sept . 28 - Oct . 13 ) to allow players a bit more time to level . 2011 . Epic trinket drops from : Epic weapon drops from when defeating : 2010 . Epic trinket drops from : Brewfest Steins . A Brewfest Stein is awarded for the completing an easy Souvenir quest ( see " Quests " below ) which will allow you to drink a few of these selections for free . These are used to collect a drink from the sample kegs , of which there are three available , one for each vendor . One of these is again the lowest brew that anyone can drink . The sample kegs are available at the main celebrations and at the city celebrations , but note that the ogre ' s samples at the city celebrations looks like a wagon full of smaller kegs , not like a huge keg . These samples have the name of the purchasable brew and cause inebriation , but do not count toward the drinking achievements . Additionally , you will not be offered the stein quest in 2010 if you completed it in 2009 and already have the . If you throw away your 2009 stein during the 2010 Brewfest , thinking to get another stein achievement , the quest is still not offered . In 2011 , Horde and Alliance characters having existing steins can still get the new purple one . You can use the Brewfest Stein to collect a sample of brew that is above your level . Drinking this will cause you to vomit shortly afterward . You can also collect samples of brews of the other faction from their sample kegs . These will act as normal for a brew of their level of your own faction . Drinking a cross - faction sample does not count for any achievement . The complementary sample brews used to pelt the Dark Iron Dwarves will also get you drunk , in fact actively participating in the defense will get you plastered . These also do not count toward the drinking achievements . Other than the brewers there are many Brewfest Revelers around getting drunk , cheering , and dancing . Having a / drink with one of the Brewfest Revelers will reward you with a 15 stamina buff for 30 minutes . For those who want to control their impairment , a pair of are available for the asking from or . These goggles are worn in the head slot and give a buff that simulates inebriation for the purposes of Brewfest and can be removed quickly by removing the goggles . ( Normal inebriation requires time to dissipate ) . This item is useful for completing the two hunting quests these same NPCs offer and for the falling down drunk achievement , but will not help with the achievement , since a Brewfest hat must be worn for that in the same slot the goggles would occupy . The goggles have an interesting " headlights " look , and you might want to keep them , but they do not persist beyond Brewfest . Tapping of the Keg . At 6 : 15 AM and 6 : 15 PM server time , Gelbin Mekkatorque or Vol ' jin gives a short speech and taps the small keg on the stand at the Brewfest grounds . Characters attending this ceremony receive a Brewfest Enthusiast buff granting 10 % extra experience for two hours ( reportedly only from killing mobs , not from quests , much like rest ) . Gelbin Mekkatorque ' s speech . < poem > < / poem > Vol ' jin ' s speech . < poem > < / poem > Brewfest mounts . Since Brewfest 2008 , the Brewfest mounts are no longer available for purchase through the token system . Players must now venture to Blackrock Depths and defeat Coren Direbrew , a boss encounter whose method of summoning is similar to the Headless Horseman . The mount is not a guaranteed drop , but the mounts are " not " faction - specific ! Players from either side stand a chance at looting the or the Characters who completed the quest to unlock ram mount purchasing in 2007 may still purchase and Token redemption . There are several items you can get from redeeming . To redeem your tokens , or turn 2007 ' s into tokens , visit Larkin Thunderbrew and Ray ' ma remain available all year round , and will vend to you if you have Brewfest Prize Tokens , but as of Brewfest 2009 , it is no longer possible to buy from them after Brewfest since the Tokens now disappear the moment Brewfest ends . ( For Brewfest 2008 they redeemed Brewfest Prize Tokens for some time after Brewfest 2008 ended ( as long as your tokens had not expired , several days , depending on when you earned them ) . They did not offer to vend after Brewfest unless you were carrying at least one Brewfest Prize Token . It was for instance possible in 2008 to purchase a Wolpertinger from them for cash as long as you were carrying a Brewfest Token . ) Since 2007 ' s prize tickets do not expire , it is best not to convert them into tokens until you want to use them to make a purchase . Note that any item labeled ' requires Brewfest ' disappears the instant Brewfest ends . The hops in particular come in multiple varieties ( only three per faction ) , but only the remains after Brewfest . ( The buff from a hops to change your mount remains in force when Brewfest ends , for the duration of the buff . ) The more expensive items cannot be purchased with a single day ' s effort . Plan your purchases , farm the one time quests , then see how many tokens you are able to average per day with the daily quests . You do not want to come up short , because the amont that doesn ' t quite buy what you want disappears after Brewfest and the effort to get them was wasted . Ideally , you should have very few extra tokens . You can pretty much get all the items required to do the achievements plus the interesting items within one year , but you will have to farm diligently . Quests . Continuing to help out Brewfest . After completing the quest " There and Back Again " by your respective faction , talk to your faction ' s . There is an option to help out by delivering more ale from the village to the . This is not a quest that will show up in your quest log , and it won ' t count against your daily total . It resets every 18 ( see bugs ) hours , so you can repeat it more often than daily quests . The non - quest mechanic gives you a Rental Racing Ram for four minutes , which has a 18 hour cooldown . If the Rental Racing Ram buff is dispelled or canceled , and you cannot restore it ; you simply have to wait for the reset . If you are shapeshifted , you will be unable to mount the ram , but you will have consumed your attempt , and again you have to wait to get another one . When the mechanic is started , you will be given Ram Racing Reins , however , you can also request them from the neighboring NPC to get a head start . The non - quest mechanic works the same as the " There and Back Again " quest , except that for each successful delivery , you are awarded an extra 30 seconds on your Rental Racing Ram buff and . The maximum number of tokens that can be obtained is debatable . It is known that the ram racing buff will last a maximum of 15 minutes , regardless of all other factors ( including any time the buff shows ) . However , within that limit , the number of potential runs is limited by the time it takes to deliver each barrel : Ignore any remainder on the number of runs - partial runs do not count . Remember that each run gives , so for example if you have 6 successful runs you will receive . Multiple contributors have reported several runs of 23 rounds , which is just over 39 seconds on average ( remembering the first round is slower ) , and hits the 15 minute maximum duration for the buff . Dark Iron attacks . Every half - hour , a party of Dark Iron Dwarves will crash the party at the main Brewfest camps outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar . Hitting these dwarves with a beer mug will knock them out cold , thus ' killing ' them and stopping them from stealing the free brew . Here ' s how you can participate in saving the free brew for the invited guests : Pick up a complementary sample brew from any one of the square tables . The mugs last 15 minutes , logged in or not . They are handed out from the Brewery Barkers whenever players loot a free sampler from the tables . Using this item will cause you to quickly drink it and throw the empty mug . Staying in range ( roughly 40 yards ) of the NPCs that represent each brewery around the area while using a complementary brew sampler will cause them to toss you another sample . If you need to , you can always manually loot another one from the table . Drinking the mugs will get you drunk , especially if you are doing it several times in rapid succession . If there are Dark Irons around , the mug you throw may hit one of them and knock them out . It is a random chance , and does not depend on character level . This is a somewhat unique battle in WoW where a low level character can contribute as much as a high level character . The mug works even with no Dark Irons around ; it will either hit your target or if you have no target it just lands on the ground . Each time you throw the mug , you lose it , but another one will quickly be thrown to you by a barker provided you are somewhere nearby . It is useful to bind the mug to a hot key in order to drink and throw rapidly . It is not useful to chase the Dark Iron Dwarves . The empty mugs travel quite far , and moving interrupts throwing . In addition , the Dark Iron Dwarves have a brawling move that throws player characters away from them and interrupts throwing mugs , so keeping your distance allows you to attack more often . Standing behind a keg you are defending prevents the Dark Iron Dwarves from reaching you . The mugs have an adequate range , but you may find that you need to move forward if you ' ve eliminated all of your targets . Frequently , large silver mugs will be placed on the ground . Walking through one of these mugs will give the player a whirlwind attack buff for several seconds . When one such mug is placed on the ground , a barker will yell out " try some of this super brew " . If you get the buff , aim yourself at large groups of Dark Iron Dwarves to stun them en mass . Note that this ONLY stuns them , it does not kill them off - but this may be more effective ; the stun time appears to be longer than the replacement time , and the replacement rate seems to target a fixed number of Dark Iron Dwarves invading . In general , stunning groups of dark irons will turn them into sitting ducks , allowing other players enough time to pick off individuals , then take out the stationary groups . It is also an effective way of dealing with the mass waves of Dark Irons that approach the last remaining keg . Surprisingly enough , if you don ' t want to get drunk but still wish to help out defenders , you can ride over the Super Brew Steins while mounted ! Players will not be dismounted when they do . Using a mount with a ' tall footprint ' such as as gnome Mechanostrider mounts , or troll Raptor mounts and blood elf Hawkstrider mounts should allow you to view the red trail easier . You will gain the Drunken Master buff while being able to speed around on a mount . Being mounted will also let you get to the Steins much faster , and allow other players to focus on defense . ( Players may or may not see the mount ' slide ' instead of running while buffed ; this is perhaps because the event designers might not have intended for the Steins to be used while mounted . ) During the 2007 Brewfest event , a stacking mark buff was awarded based on knocking out Dark Iron Dwarves , which could then be turned into tickets . For 2008 this is replaced by a daily quest offered by a remaining large cog of the Dark Iron Diggers if you ' re able to fight off the attackers and keep at least one of the kegs intact . The large cog has a quest question mark ; loot the quest before the cog disappears . Turning the quest in to the practice mugs NPC awards 10 . You can assist the defense as often as you want to , but you can only loot and turn in the quest once per day . If you are part of any additional successful defenses within a day , you will not be able to click on the cog for a quest dialog . If you hold the quest and fail to turn it in , you will not be able to get the quest the next day . Beating the waves of Dark Iron Dwarves is a group effort , there are too many and the drink and toss rate is too low for any one character to do this by themselves . Your assistance is always welcome by other defenders , but if you are setting aside time to do this for the quest tokens , do it at a time when the server is busy so that you will be part of a heavily defended Brewfest celebration . OTOH , a surprisingly few people can succeed at this defense . The defense takes around five minutes and yields 10 tokens . Failures often happen much more quickly . One odd note , this event is harder to do if you have good graphics . With poor graphics , you do not get the full effect of inebriation , and can still see your targets . With good graphics , as the defense progresses , you become plastered , your screen blurs , and your targets will be vague blobs . The mechanics of the defense do not require you to see your targets to hit them , but it is useful to be able to see where defense is needed , and that part gets harder . You can turn off the ' full screen glow effect ' in the video / effects settings to remove the blur . You do not have to take part in the defense in order to collect this quest . The cog is available for anyone to loot if the defenders are successful . You can log several characters out near the cog and rapidly switch and loot the cog when it appears . The cog remains for around ten minutes . The " Chug and Chuck ! " quest is training for how to throw the mugs to do the defense , but you do not have to complete the " Chug and Chuck ! " quest first . You do have to loot a sample mug from a table in order to participate , and the sample mugs behave like conjured items ; they disappear when you log out , and you will have to loot another one to participate in a defense . The " Chug and Chuck ! " mugs are the same lootable mugs as the defense mugs , and can be used for the defense . ( Chug and Chuck has about the best yield per time invested ratio in the event , yielding 10 tokens for about a minute ' s effort . ) You can defend against the Dark Iron Dwarf attack at the opposing faction ' s Brewfest celebration , but you will not have replacement mugs tossed to you , you will have to loot them from the tables , and you will not be able to loot the Dark Iron cog for the daily quest if successful . ( It doesn ' t make sense that the cog would know your faction , but it does make sense that neither faction ' s quest end point will reward you for the defense . ) If you attempt this , it is helpful to stand on or near one of the tables . The Dark Iron Mole Machine Wreckage only spawns if the Dark Iron Dwarves are defeated , there have been reports that approximately 250 Dark Iron Dwarves must be knocked out in order for their side to lose . Media . Music . There are several background musical tracks in the game specifically for Brewfest : 3 for alliance and 3 for horde . They can all be played manually with the following scripts : To end playback of these files , use codice _ 1 instead of codice _ 2 The tracks contain holiday - appropriate music as well as background banter of the respective faction races , including many quotable jokes and one liners .