While exploring the deep and treacherous corners of Hoxxes, the dwarves who work at Deep Rock Galactic must face a large variety of intense challenges that really put their skills to the test. Although partially included in the game as a recreational activity, drinking Deep Rock Galactic beers can really benefit these hard-working miners.
Beers provide a wide variety of effects that may or may not provide benefits when consumed. The Daily Special beer is the only beer that is constantly changing between levels, and it might be the key to surviving when struggling against a rough mission.
These eight drinks provide a wide range of buffs that impact the next mission you enter. These beers require upgrading your beer license to unlock these buffing drinks and are the only beers that require Barley Bulbs to be poured.
BackBreaker Stout
This stout increases your movement speed while carrying heavy items such as Aquarq or Error Cubes. This perk is helpful for missions where moving large objects will be required, but might be seen as useless outside of some niche situations during other missions.
Depending on your playstyle, you may never need to drink this Deep Rock Galactic beer special since you can throw heavy objects, making carrying them slower instead of depositing them into Molly or throwing them down to the Mine Head.
Dark Morkite
Dark Morkite is another situational beer; as its name implies, it only affects Morkite. Drinking this beer multiplies the amount of Morkite you mine, making Mining Expedition missions go by faster. Morkite mining missions can take a long time, and veins of this blue mineral tend to be highly spread out until you reach the end of the mission’s cave. Since Morkite only really impacts Morkite-based missions, it would be a waste to get this beverage. Other beverages might have some utility outside of missions that prefer them, but this one would be a pure waste.
Pots O’ Gold Deep Rock Galactic Beer
This golden beer is perhaps the best buff beer you can acquire. After drinking Pots O’ Gold, you will get all gold that you mine will be multiplied by four during your next mission. One small gold vein will fill your bags before mining halfway through it. Although this drink is useful in nearly every situation, pairing this drink with certain mission Anomalies like Golden Bugs or Gold Rush will take full advantage of the buff. If you happen to kill Glyphid Crassus Detonator, the resulting death explosion will coat the walls in gold, giving you tons of credits if you find one.
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Red Rock Blaster
For the small price of one Barley Bulb, your dwarf will get a max health buff for the next mission. This buff isn’t small, it is massive. You nearly get 70% extra health by drinking this beer at the Deep Rock Galactic bar. This includes modifiers from armor that are added to the total of your dwarf’s health.
Having what is virtually an extra half of your health tacked onto itself isn’t to be underestimated. There are a plethora of attacks that special enemies can do in the game that could kill you in one shot. But, this beer will most likely keep you hanging on by a sliver. Moreover, fall damage isn’t calculated by health, but actually by distance fallen. Therefore, dwarves might survive falling into a pit that they normally might not have.
Rocky Mountain Beer in Deep Rock Galactic
Rocky Mountain is another quality-of-life beer that causes your pickaxe to break through terrain much faster. Most materials will take two fewer swings to mine, one swing at a minimum. Useful in all missions except when traveling to the Sandblasted Corridors since the sand terrain already breaks in one pickaxe swing. Rocky Mountain is perhaps the only specialty beer that only aids the other Deep Rock Galactic classes beyond Driller. This beer only buffs the pickaxe and not Driller’s Reinforced Power Drills.
Skull Crusher Ale
This ale increases your base pickaxe damage by 20, which can save you some extra bullets. However, this ale in Deep Rock Galactic doesn’t increase the damage of the pickaxe’s power attack damage. Base damage and power attack damage are two different stats.
This ale goes well with the Vampire perk. Aside from that, you would likely only benefit from using it in situations where you are forced into melee range.
A fun easter egg in this beer’s description is that Skull Crusher Ale may be responsible for what happened to Karl in Deep Rock Galactic.
Slayer Stout Deep Rock Galactic Beer
Since we are talking about pickaxe damage, the Slayer Stout divides the cooldown of your power attack by four. While this doesn’t increase the damage of the power attack, the cooldown reduction makes soloing Glyphid Praetorian with just power attacks a breeze.
Having 25% of the original cooldown on a power attack makes killing hordes of swarmers with an AOE power attack easy. Yet, it also makes mining slightly faster due to the power attack counting as a swing on minerals.
Tunnel Rat
Lastly, another quality-of-life beer is Tunnel Rat; making your dwarf only take 40% of the natural damage they would take by falling. Tunnel Rat shines if you are playing Scout or going into a mission with max cave complexity.
You never plan to take fall damage unless you are rushing or going deep into a cave, so this beer is more of a preventative safety net and isn’t as noticeable as other beers unless you are going out of your way to take fall damage.
Wrapping Up Our Guide to Daily Beer Specials in Deep Rock Galactic
Although a large portion of these daily special beers will immediately introduce you to their benefits, some of the more niche or discreet options could benefit you and your team in more ways than one. It is hard to state which Deep Rock Galactic beer is the best.
There are a lot of great choices to choose from, including the craftable beers in Deep Rock Galactic we’ve had to feature on a separate list. Even the ones that are extremely situational do a fantastic job at what they are designed to do. Remember that all of these beers will run you dry on a rare resource, so redeeming them while in a team is probably the best course of action. Rock and Stone.
