Upturned Keg

The Upturned Keg is a brewery in Sloop in Betrayal at Krondor. It is also mentioned in the game's novelization, Krondor: The Betrayal.

Overview

The Upturned Keg is advertised as the best brewery this side of Romney. The brew master, Harlan, is a sharp-faced person dedicated to his work. They make, among other things, apple wine.

Wares (Chapter 3 only)

• Days Rations: 1g 1s
• Quegian Brandy: 5g 5s
• Ale: 1g 1s
• Keshian Ale: 3g 3s

Chapter 1-2

Harlan offers to decant something for the party, but they refuse due to needing a clear head for their journey.

If they return, the brew master is busy with the next batch and has no time to interact, so provisioning is unavailable.

Chapter 3

The party can learn from Jason that a special delivery of wine from the Upturned Keg was delivered to the Black Sheep Tavern for the King's soldiers quartering there on the night when they were murdered.

If they visit the brewery, a sharp-faced person welcomes them and offers samples of its products. When asked about the special delivery, he reports that Mitchel Waylander made the purchase order, paying with rubies. He shows the party a small bin of black tarweed and explains that Waylander asked for some to be added to the kegs.

Gorath, disgusted, recounts the effects of black tarweed on otherwise-competent warriors in the Northlands, and James remarks that the Nighthawks, who must have wished to keep their targets from fighting back, are not what they used to be. Alarmed at their account of the murders at the Black Sheep, the brew master says that the Keg has never been associated with anything like this and assures the party that anything they might purchase anything will not include black tarweed. The brewery's wares are then briefly available for purchase, although if the party leaves and returns, the brewer is once again busy with the next batch and cannot attend to them.

Krondor: The Betrayal

Jason tells the party that the Black Sheep Inn buys its ale from the Sign of the Upturned Keg in Sloop. Although he knows the usual wagon drivers, the tainted ale was delivered by strangers, but he had obeyed their threatening order to ignore the incident's peculiarity. The party learns about the tarweed because James recognizes the smell of the tainted wine, but they do not visit the Upturned Keg.^[1]

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