Mybeerbuzz.com Highlights Run A Brewery & Open Bar Video Games (Review)

I should probably admit up front that if there were 25-hours in a day, I’d probably spend that extra hour playing video games. I was a child of “Pong” and “Atari” and before I found my way into a real arcade, I was busy overworking my home gaming systems.

With that in mind, I was excited to get a chance to try out some new video games, and better yet, to try out some video games related to the beer business. While I was shopping for home mortgage calculator info for my mother’s house, I stumbled onto a site called Money Games by Mortgage Calculator.  This site contains all sorts of real estate games, money games, cryptocurrency games, farming simulation games, restaurant simulation games and much more. Of course, after a few minutes of checking out the mortgage-related games, I quickly found some other games that related to beer, so naturally I got distracted from my original mission and started playing some beer games.

Up first, I tried out Run A Brewery because what self-respecting beer guy doesn’t think they want to run a brewery? The game is relatively simple to start, but gains strategy and complexity as you go. You start with a timer and a liter measurement of the beer you’re brewing. To be successful, you have to press the appropriate buttons in the sequence you need to brew a beer…adding the grains to the malt silo, milling the grains, mashing in, lautering, boiling, cooling and packaging. This game is like spinning plates but in a good way. It offers up the steps I mentioned above, and you have to work your way through each step to produce as much beer as you can in 3 minutes. The trick is that you have to juggle all of the steps and keep them moving at the same time, so as you fill the malt silo and start milling, you’ll note that you have to fill the silo again and again as you work your way through all 8 steps….so while you’re packaging the beer, you have to remember to run back and add more grain, fire up the broilers over and over again and just keep everything in the brewery moving to produce beer.

In the end, you’re rated on how many liters of beer you can produce….and after 10 or 15 tries, I was able to get up to 2,300L produced. I’m sure I can do better and the game is addictive enough that I’m sure I’ll keep trying.  As a game tip, I found that running through the 8 steps in sequence and as soon as you start packaging, jump back to step one and send more grain and continue through the remaining steps. I repeat this process as fast as I was able to and quickly started getting higher scores.

Next up I played the Open Bar game. In this game, you’re the bartender, and your profit depends on how quickly (and neatly) you can serve and clean up after customers. Bar patrons come in an choose a drink. The drink can be a cocktails or draft beer, which can also be different glassware depending on different beers. The pour requires you to pull and release the tap handle without under pouring or spilling beer in an overpour. After a bit you get the hang of doing it quickly, but then a patron comes in and orders a cocktail. With the cocktail you have to shake the mixer and pour the drink, again being sure to not under or over pour the drink. If that’s not challenging enough, you also have to clean up the bar by wiping it back and forth with a green towel between customers. In the end you get 3:50 of play time and a dollar total that you earned. Perfectly poured drinks get you more money and customers leave if you don’t serve them quickly enough.

In the end, after a dozen tries, I was able to get to $2,850 and kept most of my bar crowd happy. One of the tricks I learned is that the movement of the bartender is slow, so sometimes taking care of a patron that is nearby rather than taking care of a patron that has been waiting longer but is further down the bar can pay off. I can say the wiping of the bar is challenging because it’s a slow, but necessary process in the game.

After playing both games, I realized that 3-hours had passed and over time, I was actually getting better and better at each game. I really liked how the games managed to be challenging but easy to learn. I like a game that I can start playing immediately but a game that is still challenging to get better at. With both games, I was playing in minutes and scoring better and better each time.

There are hundreds of games available on Money Games by Mortgage Calculator, so even if you’re not interested in running a brewery or pouring beers at a bar, there are all sorts of games to try out and all sorts of games that fall into your area of interest..in fact I became completely addicted to Bomb The Bridge (and I’m still playing it as we speak).

Be sure to check out Money Games by Mortgage Calculator and all of the cool games they have to offer. There’s something there for everyone, so when you do try out some of the games, be sure to let us know what YOU think.  zzubreebym