Distilled

Setup and seven-round structure: Choose one Tasting Flight shared by all players. Each receives a Distillery board, recipe clipboard, starting Metal Barrel and Glass Bottle, three private goals, and a choice of two paired identities with their starting resources, powers and signature recipe. Moonshine, Vodka and your signature recipe are known from the start; buy cubes for other recipes. A signature recipe can be made once per game. Resolve Market, Distill, Sell and Age in that order, then round-end effects and pass first player clockwise, for seven rounds.

Market phase: Players take turns clockwise, buying one recipe cube, Basic or Premium ingredient/item card, or upgrade card, or passing. Players can make multiple purchases, one at a time, but passing ends their purchases for that round. Each player may buy at most two Basic Market cards per round. Premium cards refill immediately after a purchase; at phase end, discard the rightmost card from each Premium row (two cards in a two-player game) and refill the rows. Recipe cubes permanently unlock recipes.

Distill preparation: Each player distills one batch per round, concurrently if desired. At the start, optionally exchange one ingredient or item for a Basic ingredient of equal or lower printed market cost, never an item; do not trade away Yeast, Alcohol or starting items. Fill Yeast, Sugar and Water slots with at least one card each, with no upper limit. Recovered Alcohol can replace or accompany Yeast or Water. Add one new Alcohol per card in the central Sugar slot, then shuffle all slots together. These are game procedures, not a production guide.

Distill and label: Remove the shuffled top and bottom cards to the pantry. Match surviving sugar types, quantity, prohibited sugars and a suitable barrel to a known recipe; choose if several match. Any surviving sugars allow Vodka and no sugars means Moonshine, both with a Metal Barrel. Neither needs a purchased cube. Add the barrel and claim the label; turn order settles shortages. You may still make a spirit with no label available, but receive no label bonus when selling it. Yeast, Water and Alcohol need not survive the cut.

Sell phase: Non-aged spirits must sell this round; newly distilled aged spirits cannot sell yet, while older warehouse spirits may sell. In clockwise order sell one batch per turn, waiting for the order to return before another. Add a bottle, total printed sale money and SP from the applicable cards, barrel, bottle and recipe, and add the warehouse flavor-count bonus for an aged spirit. Gain money and SP, then use its label on an unused immediate bonus space. Starting barrel and bottle return for reuse; Premium bottles become collection pieces, Premium ingredients and barrels go to the truck, other cards return by type, and signature ingredients go to the box, not the truck.

Age phase: After selling, in player order place newly distilled aged spirits into the two warehouse spaces, stack face down with barrel and label face up. Add exactly one unseen Flavor card to each warehouse spirit, including newly stored and older batches. Do not add a Flavor during distillation and then a second for the same round’s Age phase. You may inspect a barreled stack except hidden Flavors. If full, sell an older batch during the preceding Sell phase. A final-round aged spirit still enters the warehouse and cannot sell later this game.

Round-end rewards: After everyone sells or ages, check the public Spirit Awards. If multiple players complete the same award in a round, divide its SP among them, rounding up, and flip the award so it cannot score again. A player who sold no spirit that round may trade up to 4 SP for the same amount of money. At the end of round three, discard one private Distillery Goal and keep two; after round seven, proceed to final scoring.

Final scoring: After seven rounds add warehouse ingredient, barrel and recipe SP, plus 1 SP per Flavor, without sale money, a bottle, label bonus or the aged-sale flavor-count bonus. Premium bottles of the same region score 2/4/7/10/15 SP for 2/3/4/5/6+ bottles, with another 5 SP for at least one bottle from each of three different regions; unregional bottles do not count. Add upgrade SP, achieved private goals and 1 SP per full 5 money. Exchange whole groups and retain the remainder for ties: most SP wins, then most remaining money, then share victory. A goal cannot be achieved with a zero result.

Solo path: Solo still has seven rounds but omits multiplayer Distillery Goals and Spirit Awards. Arrange the five A/B/C goal rows and reveal rows 1, 3 and 5. Start at the bottom, continuing beside a completed goal in the active row or above one into the next row; after moving up you cannot return below. Complete at least one per row and reach the combined completed A/B target. Once per game swap two goals within a row for +5 target score. Claim distill and sell goals immediately after their events, using a spirit for only one goal of that event type. A B-card back replaces normal market cleanup.