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Stardew Valleyplayersknow that there are a large number of items that can be crafted in order to either make farm life easier or more profitable. One such item that falls into the latter category is the keg, which can turn a variety of items into artisan drinks, usually vastly increasing the sell price of the item. They are a near-essential item to have inStardew Valley.
Updated June 05, 2025, by Artur Novichenko:Crafting various artisan goods can make you rich, and fortunately, there are many ways to do this in Stardew Valley. One of the most effective is placing various resources in Kegs. To make it easier for you to set up production, we have added to this guide all the ways to unlock this artisan equipment, as well as recipes for using it.
Making Kegs
Unlocking the crafting recipe forKegsrequires players to reach level 8 in farming. Once that is done, a keg can be crafted with 30 wood, 1 copper bar, 1 iron bar, and 1 unit of oak resin. The first three components should be easy to get as players will just need to chop down some logs and/or trees andgo mining, and then smeltthe ore. Smelting a bar will require a furnace (crafted with 25 stone and 20 copper ore), 5 of one type of ore, and a piece of coal.
Once players have the wood and metal bars, the oak resin is all that remains. Players will thenneed to construct a tapper, which can be crafted after reaching level 3 foraging and with 40 wood and 2 copper bars. The tapper can then be placed on an oak tree to produce oak resin about every week.
Besides these, you have a few more options to get Kegs in Stardew Valley without crafting:
Using Kegs
Kegs can be used to make seven different items, which are as follows:
Beer is produced by putting wheat inside a keg and waiting a day. Beer will sell for 200 gold. Coffee is produced by putting five coffee beans in and waiting 2 hours. One cup sells for 150 gold. Notably, though, coffee can be used toincrease the player’s speedto get around faster. Green tea is made by using one bunch of tea leaves and waiting 3 hours. Green tea sells for 100 gold, but can also temporarily increase max energy by 30 points for 4 minutes and 12 seconds of real time. Additionally, Green Tea gives a +0.5 bonus to Speed.
Putting any vegetable in a keg and waiting four days will result in juice, which has a sell price that will be 2.25 times the base sell price of the vegetable used. It is worth noting that the Health and Energy of the finished Juice are double the basic Health and Energy of the ingredients used.
Processing honey with a keg will result in mead after 10 hours that sells for 200 gold. Pale ale is created in one to two days by using hops and sells for 300 gold.
Using any fruit with a keg will result in wine in 6.25 days that will sell for 3 times the base price of the fruit. As with Juice, Wine’s Health and Energy scales with the ingredient stats, multiplying them by x1.75.
Finally, by placing 1 Rice in the Keg for 10 hours, you will get Vinegar worth 100 gold. Although it is not very effective in restoring Health or Energy, it will be useful for you to cook various dishes.
It’s worth mentioning, however, that obtaining tea leaves can be a little more roundabout than some of the other items. Tea leaves come from tea saplings that are sold occasionally by the traveling cart inCindersap Forest inStardew Valley. They can also come from Caroline’s tea sapling, but to gain access to that, players will have to have 2 hearts of affection from her. Gaining access to this sapling will also result in her sending players the crafting recipe to make their own tea saplings, though, which require 2 bags of wild seeds, 5 fiber, and 5 wood.
Wine, mead, beer, and pale ale are also special in that, after they are produced in a keg, their quality can be increased byusingStardew Valley’s casks. Multiple casks are obtained with the final house upgrade, but more can be crafted using 20 wood and 1 hardwood. The value of these four drinks will be doubled if they reach iridium quality using a cask.
