Hazard Levels Brewing Guide: Recipes, Orders & Perk Drinks

Every crawl in Hazard Levels ends at the same place: the bar. The pulse berries, horror worms and cosmic apples you drag out of a collapsing rift turn into perk cocktails, and those cocktails decide how well your next crawl goes. This Hazard Levels brewing guide covers how to find Brewdragon's Secret Brewery, how recipes and orders work, which drinks are worth brewing, and how the 1.0 throwable-drink change turns your whole squad into bartenders.

How Brewing Works at The Fox Hole Arms

The brewery sits under the pub. To find it, activate the hidden door by the cash register in The Fox Hole Arms, and the secret area opens up. Inside is the Brewing Station, where you can:

• Research recipes using the ingredients you've gathered
• Fulfill orders from the order ledgers
• Brew your haul into experimental cocktails

The full loop is simple. Crawl, loot, hit your quota, escape on the double decker bus, then brew. The brewery opened during Early Access in the "IT'S BREWING TIME" update. By the 1.0 launch on November 12, 2026, the system had grown to more than 70 cocktails.

All of Brewdragon's drinks are non-alcoholic. "Experimental" is the warning label you should pay attention to, because some brews give you powerful abilities and others cause pure chaos.

Gathering Ingredients Without Wrecking Them

Brewing starts in the rifts. Your Gravity Gauntlet is the harvesting tool. It can carry two items at once by default. The Upgrade Bench in the pub has five upgrade levels for both the Gauntlet and the scanner.

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Ingredients you'll see in the brewing menu include:

• Pulse Berries
• Rift Plants
• Glow Cap Spores
• Cryo Cubes
• Horror Worms
• Monster feces
• Cosmic Apples
• Entropy Pearls
• Assorted crystals and minerals

Handle them carefully, because physics damage lowers an ingredient's value. A Cosmic Apple worth 6,200 can drop to 5,600 after one bump into a toilet. Crushers, fire traps and teammates who "help" by hurling loot all eat into your haul.

Tips for a cleaner harvest:

• Ping your collection station. Then the whole team carries loot to the same spot instead of wandering.
• Watch for Kevin. His extendable tongue steals equipment, drinks, snacks, and 20% to 50% of your money.
• Grab the Magnetonic once you can brew it. It pulls items to you from up to 5m away for 20 seconds, with no limit on how many items it draws in.

Recipes, Orders and Leveling Up Your Drinks

On your first crawl, powerful cocktails come free from the drinks cabinet, so stock up. After that, drinks cost money, and you have to unlock recipes before you can use them again.

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Here's how progression works:

1. Follow a recipe at the Brewing Station using your gathered ingredients. A Mint Jupiter, for example, takes Pulse Berries and two Rift Plants.
2. Complete orders to learn the recipes for the power drinks.
3. Finish order ledgers to level up the potency of your perk drinks, so they hit harder on future crawls.

You can mix ingredients freely without a recipe, but those brews come out as failed drinks. Follow recipes when you want a real result, and save your experiments for when you have spare stock. The menu also tells you which ingredients you're missing, such as Cryo Cubes, Glow Cap Spores or Rift Plants. Check it before each crawl so you know what to grab.

Bar snacks are a separate system. Iron-Hide Pork Rinds (+HP), Hoarder's Pickled Rings (extra slot), Sharp-Tongue Zappers (stamina), Bull-Rush Beef Strips (speed) and Steady-On Nuts (stamina regen) are bought in the pub, not brewed. If you die during a crawl, you lose the snack's benefit and have to buy it again.

Perk Cocktails Worth Knowing

The menu holds dozens of drinks with names like Cosmo, Mars Tini, Nebula Negroni, Spectral Spritz, Pulseberry Daiquiri and Repel Remix. These are the ones whose effects are clear:

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Cocktail	Effect
Magnetonic	Magnetizes items to you from up to 5m away for 20 seconds, with no item limit
R.A.D.S	Gives you a toxic aura that damages nearby enemies
Teenie Weenie	Shrinks you, and teammates can pick you up and throw you
Shapeshifter	Turns you into a prop, such as a Pickle or a Football
Wormhole Sour	Makes you float, with nearby objects orbiting around you

The Magnetonic started as a community entry in a cocktail contest the developers ran in their Discord. R.A.D.S arrived with the Summer Update.

Throwable Drinks and Co-op Tricks

Since 1.0, every Perk Cocktail can be thrown at a fellow Rift Crawler to give them its effect. That changes how you plan a crawl:

• Bring a support drink for the team. If a teammate is about to go down, throw a heal instead of running it over to them.
• Use Teenie Weenie for physics plays. Shrink a teammate, then carry or launch them across hazards.
• Lean into the chaos. Throwing the wrong brew can turn a friend into a toilet. Proximity chat makes sure everyone hears about it.

Hazard Levels costs $12.99, and crossplay works across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. You can pick it up on the Hazard Levels Epic Games Store page or the Hazard Levels Steam page.

FAQ

Are the cocktails in Hazard Levels alcoholic?

No. Every drink in Brewdragon's brewery is non-alcoholic.

How many cocktails can you brew?

The completed 1.0 brewing system has more than 70 cocktails.

Can you brew when playing solo?

Yes. The game is balanced for 1–4 players, and you can launch and play it offline when playing solo.

Why did my drink come out as a failure?

You mixed ingredients without following a recipe. Use a researched recipe at the Brewing Station to get a working perk cocktail.