How to Get and Sell Pale Ale in Stardew Valley

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Whether you’re completing Pam’s quest or trying to rake in a little extra gold for your Farm, making Pale Ale is a must. Thankfully, only Hops and a Keg are required to make this lucrative Artisan Good—and we’re here to walk you through the entire process. Read on to learn everything there is to know about making Pale Ale in Stardew Valley, including how to age it in a Cask to maximize your profits.

Things You Should Know

Place Hops in a Keg and wait 1-2 in-game days to produce Pale Ale.
Upgrade your Farmhouse and place your Pale Ale in one of the cellar Casks to increase its quality and selling price.
Standard-quality Pale Ale sells for 300 gold in game, while higher-quality products can sell anywhere from 375 to 600 gold.

How to Make Pale Ale

Grow Hops on your Farm during the summer. Head over to Pierre’s General Store and pick up a Hops Starter. Then, plant the Hops Starter in tilled soil on your Farm and water it consistently. In 11 days, harvest your first Hops plant—it will continue to yield a new Hops plant every other day after this point. A Hops Starter costs 60 gold at Pierre’s General Store, 75 gold at JojaMart, and anywhere from 100 to 1,000 gold at the Traveling Cart. If you go shopping at the Night Market during 16th day of Winter, you can purchase a Hops Starter for 60 gold. Want to speed up your harvest time? Place Speed-Gro, Deluxe Speed-Gro, or Hyper Speed-Gro to speed up the growing time by 10% (9 total days), 25% (8 total days), or 35% (7 total days) respectively. You can grow Hops throughout the year if you’ve unlocked the Greenhouse (by completing the Pantry Community Center Bundle or buying it from the Joja Community Development Forum). You can also grow Hops year-round on Ginger Island (unlocked by fixing up Willy’s boat after finishing the Community Center or Joja Warehouse).

Place the Hops in a Keg and wait 1-2 in-game days to get a Pale Ale. Set up a Keg anywhere on your farm and put your harvested Hops inside. In about 1-2 in-game days, your Keg will produce a Pale Ale. Get a free Keg by finishing up the Artisan Goods bundle in the Community Center. To make your own Keg, reach a level 8 skill level in Farming and use 30 Wood, 1 Copper Bar, 1 Iron Bar, and 1 Oak Resin to construct one.

How to Age Pale Ale

Upgrade your farmhouse so it has a cellar filled with Casks. The final upgrade available to your Farmhouse adds a cellar to your home, which has Casks. If you have at least 100,000 gold, visit Robin to complete this upgrade—she operates out of the Carpenter’s Shop close to the mountains. It takes her 3 in-game days to completely finish a requested upgrade. Robin’s store is open every day except Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (in-game hours). On Fridays, she closes an hour early. You’ll need to upgrade your Farmhouse twice before the cellar upgrade is available. The first upgrade costs 10,000 gold and 450 Wood, while the second upgrade costs 50,000 gold and 150 Hardwood.

Place a Pale Ale into one of the Casks and wait 9-34 in-game days. Aging Artisan Goods can take a long time, especially if you’re aiming for Iridium quality. Once the Pale Ale has aged, return to cellar to retrieve it from the Cask. Here’s how long you can expect to wait, depending on the quality you’d like: Silver quality: 9 in-game days Gold quality: 17 in-game days Iridium quality: 34 in-game days

Pale Ale Selling Guide

Pale Ale sells for a base price of 300 gold when put in the Shipping Bin. Once you’ve acquired your Pale Ale (either default quality or aged), stick it in the Shipping Bin so you can get money for the item during the next in-game day. Default price: 300 gold Silver-quality price: 375 gold Gold-quality price: 450 gold Iridium-quality price: 600 gold

Where to Buy Pale Ale

Traveling Cart Due to its wide and unpredictable range of stock, the Traveling Cart can be a lifesaver when you’re first trying to complete Community Center bundles. If you need Pale Ale (like for the “Pam Is Thirsty” quest) but you don’t have the resources to make it yourself, check the Traveling Cart that’s located southwest of your Farmhouse on Friday and Sunday (between the in-game hours of 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM). If you’re especially lucky, Pale Ale might pop up in the shop. You’ll have to play the long game when shopping from the Traveling Cart. Since so many items have a chance at showing up, there isn’t a high chance of Pale Ale appearing right away.

Ginger Island Once you’ve completed the Community Center or JojaMart bundles and fix up Willy’s boat, you can travel to Ginger Island for 1,000 gold. On the island, completing random tasks nets you with Golden Walnuts, a special currency you can use to pay the Parrots on the island. For 20 Walnuts, the Parrots will build the Beach Resort, which has a special bar where you can buy Pale Ale for 1,000 gold.

Other Uses for Pale Ale

Complete the “Pam Is Thirsty” quest by giving Pam a Pale Ale. In the middle of your first in-game summer (on the 14th in-game day), you’ll receive a letter from Pam requesting a Pale Ale. Once you deliver the drink to her, she’ll reward you with 350 gold. You’ll gain a Friendship heart with Pam by completing this quest. Pam lives in a trailer that’s a little ways east of the Stardrop Saloon.

Moderately raise your friendship with other NPCs by gifting them Pale Ale. Are you angling to boost your Friendship level with certain characters in the game? Gifting a Pale Ale to Pam nets you 80 Friendship points, while gifting a Pale Ale to Abigail, Alex, Caroline, Clint, Demetrius, the Dwarf, Elliott, Emily, Evelyn, George, Gus, Haley, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Krobus, Leah, Lewis, Linus, Marnie, Maru, Pierre, Robin, Sam, Sandy, Shane, Willy, or the Wizard will earn you 45 Friendship points. It takes 250 total points to level up in Friendship with someone. Keep in mind that you can only give 2 Gifts to a character per in-game week. Jas, Leo, Penny, Sebastian, and Vincent all hate Pale Ale—if you Gift them this item, you’ll actually lose 40 Friendship points.