Blizzard Hops Tavern and Distillery

Formerly known as the Wyvern's end, it is now proudly rebranded as Blizzard Hops Tavern and Brewery.

• Clorthos Crom - Bartender / Half Orc Man
• Parna Eve - Barmaid/ Wood Elf woman with Bard Experience.
• Harv Leder - co-Owner / Human man 55 years old
• Blizzard Hops - Owner

Purpose / Function

Food, Drink, and Lodging
The Food, Drink, and Lodging table gives prices for individual food items and a single night’s lodging. These prices are included in your total lifestyle expenses.
Item Cost Drink Menu -

• Scruf (basic Ale made from Tellenheim Rye grain)
•   Gallon 2 sp
•   Mug 4 cp
• Distilled spirits:
• Blizzard Hops Whiskey- 20sp, Full Glass 1 gp
• Rum-6 cp
• Madiera-6cp
• Sherry- 1sp
• Brandy- 2sp
• cider - 4cp
• mobby (Fermented Acala Fruit) - 1sp
• Beer (Ale or Lager ) - 1sp for a pint
• Wines & wine mixes:
• elderberry
• orange
• gooseberry
• currant
• cherry
• birch
• quince
• turnip
• raspberry
• blackberry
• grape
• apricot
• lemon
• hippocras (wine & spice mix), 
• Stepony
• shrub
• punch & sangria
• Common Pitcher 2 sp
• Bottle 10 gp
• Banquet (per person) 10 gp
• Bread, loaf 2 cp
• Cheese, hunk 1 sp
• Inn stay (per day)
•   Squalid 7 cp
•   Poor 1 sp
•   Modest 5 sp
•   Comfortable 8 sp
•   Wealthy 2 gp
•   Aristocratic 4 gp
• Meals (per day)
•   Squalid 3 cp
•   Poor 6 cp
•   Modest 3 sp
•   Comfortable 5 sp
•   Wealthy 8 sp
•   Aristocratic 2 gp
• Meat, chunk 3 sp

Design

The Wyvern's End is a large wooden building.

Entries

Wine List House Pinot Noir A house-made red wine that is described as sweet and lean. Bottle price: 1 gp, 5 sp Glass price: 5 sp
House Shiraz A house-made red wine with flavors that are toasty and cloying. Bottle price: 1 gp, 4 sp Glass price: 4 sp, 8 cp
Black Artichoke Merlot A locally produced red wine with flavors that are vibrant and green. Bottle price: 2 gp, 7 sp Glass price: 9 sp
House Pinot Noir A house-made red wine with a bouquet that is raisiny and powerful. Bottle price: 1 gp, 3 sp Glass price: 4 sp, 5 cp

Lagers & Ales Moldy Morningstar Hard Cider 4.09% ABV A microbrewed pale cider. Described as a fruity cider with a sweet finish. Gallon price: 4 sp, 3 cp Pint price: 8 cp
Arcane Jackal Porter 5.95% ABV A locally brewed copper-colored porter. Described as a sour porter with a touch of malt and a sour finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 2 cp Pint price: 6 cp
Mauve Mammoth Fruit Ale 5.5% ABV A locally brewed dark amber fruit ale. Described as a robust fruit ale with a bitter finish. Gallon price: 4 sp, 6 cp Pint price: 9 cp
Little Candle Lager 2.73% ABV A poorly brewed light amber lager. Described as a pleasantly bitter lager with an aftertaste of citrus and a smooth finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 3 cp Pint price: 6 cp

Liquors House Whiskey A house-made corn whiskey. Bottle price: 9 sp, 4 cp Shot price: 1 sp, 5 cp
Misshapen Archon Vodka A locally produced sorghum vodka. Bottle price: 1 gp, 4 sp Shot price: 2 sp, 4 cp
House Rum A house-made honey rum. Bottle price: 9 sp, 7 cp Shot price: 1 sp, 6 cp
House Vodka A house-made sorghum vodka. Bottle price: 8 sp, 8 cp Shot price: 1 sp, 4 cp
Food Menu Starters Deep-Fried Sweet Potato Wedges Sweet potato wedges fried in lard. Served with a creamy sauce. 7 cp
Deep-Fried Onion Rings Onion rings fried in cottonseed oil. Served with a tomato-based sauce. 8 cp
Deep-Fried Chicken Strips Chicken strips fried in lard. Served with a spicy red sauce. 6 cp

Soups & Salads Sausage Chowder A savory chowder with bits of sausage and rice. 6 cp
Iceberg Salad Leaves of iceberg tossed with baby kale and cucumbers. Topped with grated cheese. 6 cp

Entrees Herb-crusted Rabbit Herb-crusted rabbit alongside quinoa. 1 sp, 2 cp
Herb-crusted Venison Herb-crusted chunks of venison served over noodles. 1 sp, 5 cp
Pan-fried Rabbit Pan-fried bits of rabbit on a bed of quinoa. 1 sp, 2 cp
Rotisserie-cooked Fish Rotisserie-cooked cubes of fish on a bed of quinoa. 1 sp, 2 cp

Denizens

The Wyvern's End is always full of laughter and drinking. Many of the farmers and laborer's drink here after a hard day's work.

Alterations

The back of the building has been expanded and distilling equipment has been added.  The front end has been cleaned and refurbished with a new brightly colored sign depicting the great cleric Blizzard Hops with one foot on a barrel and his hammer in hand.

Architecture

The main bar is a large open space with seven mismatched tables surrounded by

History

“I need all bottles, stored and sold stamped with a unique date stamp that can be identified as unique. I also need you to keep communications with Corralon Township and utilize all profits, that do not get reinvested into upkeep and expansion, into security for both this tavern and the Corralon Tavern. If this ( or Corralon) tavern is ever sold or turned over in any way the vaults must be immediately buried and concealed. Feel free to open new locations elsewhere, but they must follow the same specifications.”

Tourism

Business Rules for Player owned operations -

There are a number of documents on the DMs Guild that give options for this. Check there if you want. Here is my personal rule set for it. When running the business as downtime add +1 to the running a business roll for every GP spent promoting or investing in the business up to +30.

Additionally, I allow players to make upgrades to the business. For example one of my players is running a tavern and he just invested 1,000 gold in the business by expanding the kitchen and offering a wider variety of foods. Any upgrade must be of significance and beneficial to the business (while nice, a new anvil will not help a tavern as much as it would a blacksmith), every 100 gold spent on the cost of upgrades becomes a +1 bonus to the business roll. This bonus remains as long as the owner uses his downtime to run the business. Every workweek not spent running his business degrades this bonus by 1, as the owner is not overseeing his business and wear and tear damages the upgrade, this stops when the upgrade bonus reaches 0.

Just as with promoting and investing this upgrade bonus is capped at +30 however the two stack. So with his 1,000 gold investment and 30 gold spent during the week promoting the business my player will make his business roll with +40 meaning even if he rolls a 1 the business covers its own maintenance cost. As the player upgrades other parts of the tavern (costing 2,000 gold) and continues to promote the business he will make the roll with +60, meaning even if the player rolls a 1 the business will cover its own maintenance cost and earn an average profit of 20 gold (or 1d6x5 gold for those of you who like to roll). At this point, the player may very well be spending more time as a tavern keep/owner than an adventurer. If this hasn't forced him into retirement, or the game is focused on running a tavern there is a third path to be explored.

Once a business (in this case a tavern) is fully upgraded and fully promoted you would think that there is not much more to be done. Yet the actions of the owner, their friends, and their staff can all come into play. This is only suitable in games where the focus of the roleplaying is the running of a business. When role-playing track actions that are beneficial to the business (buying rounds on the house, blessing merchandise, holding tournaments) and actions detrimental to the business (bar fights, selling cheap/shoddy goods), at the end of a workweek if the number of beneficial actions is larger than the number of detrimental actions make a roll on the business table with advantage. If the number of detrimental actions are larger than the number of beneficial actions roll with disadvantage. If the number of beneficial actions is larger than the number of detrimental actions by five or more double all profit earned on the business roll, if the number of detrimental actions is larger than the number of beneficial actions by five or more half all profit earned on the business roll. This ruleset should only be used if the players have already maxed out their upgrades and promotions and only if running the business is the focus of the game.

So our dedicated tavern owner has spent 3,000 gold expanding the kitchen, hiring in house musicians, purchasing expensive fixtures and adding private dining/drinking areas for a +30 to his business roll. He has spent 30 gold hiring barkers to sing the praises of his tavern and spread flyers throughout the town for another +30. Finally, he holds weekly events, a brewers competition, dice tournaments, has up-and-coming musicians come and perform, and donates leftover produce and food to the local church to help feed the needy. At the end of the workweek, he rolls 1d100+60 with advantage and doubles the total profit he receives. If he rolls a 40 or better he is on average looking to clear more than 160 gold for a single workweek.

Alternative Names

The old Wyvern's End

Type

Room, Hall, Mead

Parent Location

Tellenor

Owner

Harv Leder

Characters in Location

• Clorthos Crom
• Harv Leder
• Istred Allfeather
• Parna Eve

Related Tradition (Primary)

• Festival of the Two Spheres, Big Balls day