Ale is not a food source and is mainly used as a trade good. It does have a use in feasts, where it can be served to noblemen alongside wine.
The Productive Enterprise can be used in any town to buy a brewery that produces two barrels of ale per week from one sack of grain (both of which can be bought by the player and possibly gain a higher profit). The initial cost is 2,500 denars and the weekly cost is 50 denars. The average profit is 160 denars and thus has a profit margin of 6.4%.
Ale can be cheaply purchased in Praven and sold for high amounts in Khudan.
In With Fire & Sword, it is replaced with the consumable beer.
In Viking Conquest[]
if your party morale is low (generally under 50), an event will trigger in which you will lose one item which will however increase the party morale with 2.
Economy[]
In general, you can buy it in any town cheap (~130 for up to ~200) and sell it for sometimes double in villages.
There are some exceptions where you can make a ~100 profit (e.g. Dorestad, Ribe) from it.
Productive Enterprises can make Ale from wheat and barley.
| Goods | |
|---|---|
| Foods | Barley • Beef • Beer • Bread • Boar Meat • Butter • Cabbages • Cheese • Chicken Dried Meat • Flour • Fruit • Grain • Grapes • Honey • Olives • Pork • Sausages Smoked Fish • Vegetables |
| Trade | Ale • Amber • Date Fruit • Dyes • Flax Bundle • Furs • Hemp • Hides • Iron Jewellery • Leatherwork • Linen • Mead • Oil • Pottery • Powder • Raw Silk • Salt Shag • Silver • Soapstone • Spice • Stone • Tar • Timber • Tools • Velvet • Vodka Walrus Ivory • Wine • Wool • Wool Cloth |