Hazard Levels Drink Recipes: How Brewing and Perks Work

How Brewing Works in Hazard Levels

The ingredients you drag out of a rift do more than fill quotas. They're also what you brew with. Hazard Levels drink recipes are what turn a pile of cursed produce into perks that keep your squad alive, or into chaos that gets everyone killed in the funniest way possible. With the 1.0 release on November 12, 2026, the brewing system is complete. Wales Interactive counts more than 70 cocktails on the menu, so it pays to know how the brewery works before your next Crawl.

The loop is simple: rift, loot, survive, brew, repeat. You haul ingredients back to The Fox Hole Arms, research recipes at the Brewing Station, and fill orders to unlock and power up drinks. Then you take those drinks into the next Crawl. Every cocktail is non-alcoholic. The Family runs Brewdragon as "Wales' premier brewer," but what you're mixing is experimental perk fuel, not pints.

Finding Brewdragon's Secret Brewery

The brewery is hidden. To open it:

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1. Head to the cash register inside The Fox Hole Arms.
2. Activate the register to trigger the hidden door.
3. Step into Brewdragon's Secret Brewery and use the Brewing Station.

The station has three jobs. It lets you research recipes, fulfill orders, and turn your otherworldly haul into finished cocktails. 1.0 added a fully integrated tutorial along with more signage and direction, so new recruits get pointed in the right direction on their first Crawl.

Unlocking and Leveling Up Perk Cocktails

You don't have to earn your first round. On your first trip, the drinks cabinet comes stocked with Brewdragon's most powerful cocktails, on the house. After that, you have to unlock recipes yourself.

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• Free drinks in Crawl 1: Grab what's in the cabinet and add it to your inventory before you board the double-decker bus.
• Drinks cost money after your first Crawl. Budget for them alongside equipment.
• Complete orders to learn recipes. Filling orders at the Brewing Station is how you unlock power drinks for future use.
• Order ledgers level up your drinks. Finishing ledgers raises the potency of special perk drinks, which makes them more useful on a Crawl.

All banked money is individual, so each player pays for their own drinks. Decide as a team who carries what before you leave the pub.

Known Cocktails and Their Effects

Some drinks give you useful abilities and others are, in the devs' words, "slightly less sensible." These are the cocktails with known effects:

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Cocktail	Effect	Notes
Magnetonic	Pulls items toward you from up to 5m away for 20 seconds	No limit on how many items get drawn in; started as a community Cocktail Giveaway winner
R.A.D.S	Gives off a toxic aura that damages nearby enemies	Uses rift radiation; added in the Major Summer Update
Teenie Weenie	Shrinks the drinker	Teammates can pick up the shrunken player with the Gravity Gauntlet and throw them
Shapeshifter	Turns you into a prop	Props include a Pickle and a Football

Some drinks can heal a teammate in their time of need, and at least one turns its target into a toilet.

How to get the most from these drinks:

• Drink Magnetonic before you sweep a loot-heavy room. Twenty seconds of pulling everything within 5m fills your arms fast, especially since the Gravity Gauntlet holds only 2 items by default.
• Save R.A.D.S for when you're cornered. An aura that damages anything nearby helps when you're low on ammo, and the Revolver only has 12 rounds before you have to buy it again.
• Use the Shapeshifter Football to hide or to troll. The devs' own advice is "don't just score goals, become the goals."

Throwable Drinks in 1.0

Since 1.0, every Perk Cocktail can be thrown at fellow Rift Crawlers to give them its effect. That changes how you play support:

• Throw heals at struggling teammates instead of running over to them.
• Hand perks out mid-fight. You can throw Magnetonic to whoever is closest to the loot.
• Expect friendly fire. The same system lets a teammate turn you into a toilet.

Key brewing milestones from the developers' update posts:

• November 5, 2026: The brewing system was marked complete, with more than 70 cocktails.
• November 11, 2026: Order ledgers were confirmed as the way to level up perk drinks.
• November 12, 2026: 1.0 launched on Steam, Epic, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with full crossplay, and all Perk Cocktails became throwable.

Getting More Drinks During a Crawl

Your stock isn't limited to what you brought from the pub. Watch for these in the Facility:

• Drink Coolers: These spawn at random during Crawls and let you buy extra drinks.
• Foxy: This helpful fox sometimes appears on a Crawl. Pay a small fee and you get a random drink or piece of equipment.
• Power Ups: Smashing crates and killing enemies can drop instant bonuses, such as a team-wide heal.

Look out for Kevin. This harmless-looking alien's extendable tongue steals equipment, drinks, snacks, and between 20% and 50% of your money. Drink your best cocktail before Kevin gets close rather than carrying it around.

Pairing Drinks With Bar Snacks

Bar snacks are sold at the snack displays around The Fox Hole Arms. They upgrade your stats for the whole session, which makes them a good complement to short-burst cocktails:

• Iron-Hide Pork Rinds: More HP
• Hoarder's Pickled Rings: An extra inventory slot, so you can carry more drinks
• Sharp-Tongue Zappers: More stamina
• Bull-Rush Beef Strips: More speed
• Steady On Nuts: Faster stamina regen

You lose a snack's benefit if you die during a Crawl, so buy snacks when you can afford the risk. Hoarder's Pickled Rings fit well with a drink-heavy loadout.

Want to try brewing before you buy? The free demo is on the Hazard Levels Steam page, and you can follow the game's development on the official Hazard Levels site.

FAQ

Are the cocktails in Hazard Levels alcoholic?

No. Brewdragon's perk drinks are described as non-alcoholic cocktails, even though your base is a pub.

Do I have to pay for drinks?

Not on your first Crawl, when the drinks cabinet is on the house. After that, drinks cost money, and you unlock recipes for future use by completing orders.

Can I give a drink to a teammate?

Yes. Since 1.0, every Perk Cocktail can be thrown at another player to give them its effect, including healing drinks.

Can I play the brewing loop solo?

Yes. Hazard Levels supports 1–4 players, and solo play works offline.