Distilled FAQ
221 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Components
- How many spirit labels are set out in a multiplayer game?
- Do the signature ingredients of distiller identities not in play go into the premium ingredient stack at setup?
- Are recipe cubes a limited resource, and what if I run out of one colour?
- Does the starting money on a character card change in the first game?
- If a drawn goal relies on a region not in play, can I still complete a goal for bottles of that region?
Distillery Boards and Distiller Identities
- Does Angus Douglas's extra draw apply to flavour from the Metal Rickhouse or other upgrades during aging?
- Do Ruthless Ajani's bottle discount and the Glass Blower's bottle discount stack, so one bottle can be discounted by 2 coins?
- Can I use distiller identities that are not paired with the tasting flight I chose?
- If my signature ingredient is removed during distilling, can I put it back into the spirit?
- Can I make my signature recipe with a premium ingredient of the same type instead of my signature ingredient?
- Can I distill my signature recipe more than once in a game?
- Where does my signature ingredient go after the spirit that used it is sold?
- Can I use my signature ingredient from the start of the game?
- Where is a signature spirit's label placed, and do signature labels count toward awards and goals?
- If a failed signature recipe becomes Vodka, do the signature ingredient's points and money still count?
- If a start-of-round ability, such as Yousef Hajjar's, buys a card, when does it happen and can that card's own power trigger?
- Can I use two start-of-round abilities, such as Fang Xin's and Market Buyer's, in the same round?
- Does Jacqueline Booker's green icon mean start of game or start of round?
- Can I meet a distillery goal by having the most labels from a region when I have none of them?
- How does Juliana De La Cruz's ability interact with the Coffey Still's double pull?
- Can non-aged spirits go into the warehouse, and does a full warehouse block distilling a non-aged spirit?
- How many aged spirits can the warehouse hold, and can I distill a third aged spirit?
- What is my home region, and does it count for scoring?
- Can both USA distiller identities, the World and Collector characters, be included at setup?
- How long must a signature recipe be aged before its spirit scores?
- What does Angus Douglas's ability do, and does it apply every time I age a spirit?
- Can a signature recipe's sugar requirement be met by any agave or grape, not just the character's special ingredient?
- Do I get the signature recipe label bonus when I distill the spirit?
- Do spirit labels placed on the spirit label bonus spaces stay there for the rest of the game?
Ingredient and Item Cards
- Can Drone Camera copy a start-of-round power, and when can it be used?
- After I sell a spirit, do its barrels return to my storeroom or get discarded?
- Can a reusable barrel be used again in the round right after I sold the spirit it was in?
- How many flavour cards does an Ex-Bourbon Hogshead add to a spirit?
- Do the star ratings on flavour cards have any effect in the game?
- Do premium bottles with a region bonus pay out for a spirit from my home region?
- Does the number on a card show its purchase price or the money it earns when sold?
- Can I use my starting Glass Bottle for more than one sale in the same sell phase?
- Can I trade a spare ingredient for the yeast I need before I distill?
- Does taking Water or Yeast from a power, upgrade or start-of-round effect trigger its purchase bonus?
- Where do premium bottles go after I use them to sell a spirit, including bottles without a region icon?
- Does the Mason Jar's minus-20-point benefit apply to a signature Moonshine as well as the base Moonshine?
- Can I use a plastic litter bottle when I have zero victory points?
- Does the American Standard Barrel's once-per-age-phase coin apply in the round I distill with it?
Recipes
- Can a sugar marked with the not-allowed symbol for a recipe be in that spirit's stack?
- Do a signature recipe, Vodka or Moonshine count as a bronze, silver or gold spirit for goals and awards?
- Does Moonshine use the distiller's region icon?
- Can I pick a recipe that needs fewer sugars than the cards I revealed when distilling?
- Can Aquavit be distilled with a mix of grain and plant sugars?
- If my batch fits no recipe I can make, can I still make Vodka or Moonshine, and what happens to the label?
- If I lack the barrel a recipe needs, can I still distill that recipe?
- Does the specific ingredient in a signature recipe count toward the sugar total or on top of it?
- Does a recipe's region matter in the game?
- Can I distill any recipe regardless of my distiller identity's region?
Distillery UpgradesExpansion
- Can an unaged spirit receive flavour cards from the Doig Ventilator or Malting Floor, and does it get the flavour points?
- With the Doig Ventilator, does an aged spirit end the round with two flavour cards: its normal aging card plus the Ventilator's draw?
- Can I look at the flavour cards the Doig Ventilator draws before choosing which to keep?
- Can Angus Douglas's aging draw and the Charring Furnace's aging draw be combined into one draw?
- How does the Charring Furnace change aging, and does it apply to every spirit I age?
- When the Advertising Agent's ability spends 1 VP to buy a card from the premium market, do I still pay the card's cost?
- Does Tropical Warehouse's extra flavour card count toward a spirit award that needs a set number of flavour cards?
- Can Tropical Warehouse's extra flavour be applied to every aged spirit I sell in one round?
- Can the Worm Tub's extra alcohol replace water or yeast in the washback, and does it skip buying them?
- When I sell an aged spirit through Cask Sales in the round it was distilled, do I need a bottle?
- Can I look at the flavour card the Malting Floor adds to a spirit?
- Can a spirit that got a flavour card from the Malting Floor be sold in the round it was distilled?
- Does a basic ingredient gained at the start of the round from a specialist count toward the basic market purchase limit?
- Can a card I buy with the Trucker upgrade use its start-of-round power right away?
- Does the upgrade copied by the Drone Camera have to be face up when I use the Drone Camera?
- Can a Drone Camera claimed from a spirit label bonus copy a sell-phase ability for the same spirit?
- Does the Tour Guide's money-to-SP exchange count as SP from a specialist upgrade for the Delegation goal?
- Does the Architect's discount still apply when I buy a card that replaces the Architect?
- How does the Mixologist work when I sell an aged spirit, and can I look at the flavour cards it replaces?
- Where do replaced distillery upgrades go, and how many points can the Architect score?
- Does the Large Storage discount apply to barrels and bottles, and only to premium items?
- Does the Glass Blower's once-per-market bottle discount work at the start of the round?
- Does a signature spirit label count toward a region-based award, such as the Farmer's Asia labels?
- When I sell a non-aged spirit from the 55 Gallon Drum, do I earn the per-age-card victory points?
- Does the Master Blender give a bonus each time I make Moonshine or Vodka from my home region?
- How do the Column Still and the Spirit Safe differ when removing cards during distillation?
- When I sell an aged spirit through Cask Sales, is its barrel discarded or returned to my storeroom?
Gameplay and End of RoundExpansion
- How many basic market cards can you buy each round, and do free items or cards from powers count?
- Is there a limit on how many cards you can buy in the market phase, or on premium cards?
- After taking the Water ingredient, what can you buy from the revealed card?
- What is the minimum in the washback to distill a spirit, and do you need a barrel?
- Do yeast and water have to remain in the washback for a distillation to succeed, and can you still sell or age the spirit?
- Can alcohol from an earlier distillation stand in for water or yeast, and can you add several of them?
- Can you distill more than one spirit per round, and how many spirits can you make in a game?
- Can you distill your signature recipe more than once in a game?
- Can you take the same spirit's label more than once, and who gets the bonus when two players distill the same spirit?
- If no spirit label is left for an aged spirit I distill again, how do I mark which spirit it is?
- Do the washback ingredients have to be face up when you distill?
- Are the top and bottom cards you pull while distilling public?
- Are the contents of your pantry public information?
- Why are the top and bottom cards removed when you distill?
- Can you choose which sugar cards to keep when you distill?
- Can you leave out a sugar card you do not need, and does a sugar the recipe does not allow change the spirit?
- What does the spirit label bonus that lets you take one card from the truck allow?
- Can a double-sugar card from the Africa & Middle East expansion help with the Sweet spirit award?
- When you sell a spirit, what is scored, what goes back, and are label bonuses taken before the next sale?
- Can I reuse my starting glass bottle for another sale in the same sell phase?
- Can your starting metal barrel age a spirit, and when is a bottle added?
- Can you distill something other than Vodka or Moonshine in round one?
- How do you make Moonshine?
- Can you sell a non-aged spirit when your warehouse is full, and must you sell one to distill another?
- Can I age two spirits at the same time, or must I sell one each round?
- Does Distilled change any rules with two players?
- Can you hold a tasting after selling a spirit that round, and can you turn victory points into money with one?
- Can you satisfy a distillery goal by tying at zero?
- Does a distillery goal to have or tie for the most of a region compare you only with players in your own region?
- Do distillery goals that count spirit labels mean total labels or unique labels?
- For the distillery goal Skip the Easy Stuff, do you need the most bronze, silver and gold labels together, or in each tier?
- Do flavour cards added to a non-aged spirit score the aged flavour bonus SP?
- Does an aged spirit get extra SP for more than five flavour cards?
- Are the cards of an aging spirit face up or face down?
- Does an aged spirit gain another flavour card each round it is not sold?
- Can you exchange a premium ingredient for a basic one more than once per round at the start of the distill phase?
- Can a discount reduce an ingredient or item cost to zero, and how often can discount abilities be used?
- Can the washback hold mixed sugar types, and what does the same-type rule limit?
- Do the three labels for a Europe goal have to be different spirits, or can one European spirit count each time?
- Can free ingredients, items or upgrades from a label bonus come from the truck?
- If the signature ingredient is removed as head or tail during distillation, must it be discarded?
- If you buy the Water ingredient's revealed card and decline it, where does it go?
Spirits and Tasting Flights
- Which distiller identities should I use with a custom tasting flight made in the online generator?
- Does Moonshine count as a non-Vodka spirit for goals and awards?
- What happens to a Spirit Award that cannot be achieved with the regions in the tasting flight?
- Can one spirit satisfy two spirit awards, and can several awards be claimed in the same round?
- Does a spirit's total SP, including bonuses, count toward the High Class public goal?
- Do all players use the same tasting flight, and can you mix flights or distiller identities?
- Can another player block you from distilling a recipe by taking its last label?
- Do unique or signature spirit labels count toward spirit awards that name a spirit or a tier?
- When is a spirit label counted as collected for spirit awards and solo goals?
- If the spirit labels run out, can you still distill or age a spirit?
Solo Mode
- Can I complete a solo goal as soon as it is revealed if I already meet its requirement?
- Can one spirit count toward both a Distill solo goal and a Sell solo goal?
- When must a solo Distill or Sell goal be claimed, and can a newly revealed one be claimed afterwards?
- Do Earn solo goals count money or points gained in earlier rounds?
- Does money from a tasting count toward a solo Earn goal such as earning $8 in a round?
- Can you lose a solo game early, for example after round 3, and can that be avoided?
- Does a Vodka label count toward a solo A goal that asks for non-aged spirit labels?
- Do duplicate spirit labels count toward solo goal cards?
- In solo setup, do you include all spirit labels for the tasting flight recipes, or only one of each?
- Do you have to complete both A goals in a solo game, or only one?
- Does a signature spirit count toward a solo goal that asks for a spirit type, such as three labels of the same type?
- Does a spirit-type goal need actual labels, or is a spirit made without a label enough?
- Does the solo goal to collect 2 spirit labels from 3 different regions need six labels?
- If a Sell goal and an Earn goal are both available, can you claim both in the same round?
- Can you score more than one solo goal in the same round, or can one sale satisfy two goals?
- In Solo mode, can you complete more than one goal in the same row, such as both row 1 goals in one round?
- When a completed solo goal is at the edge of its row, how many cards do you flip?
- In solo setup, do you choose the tasting flight before or after the solo goals are revealed?
- Can you replace a solo goal that cannot be achieved because the tasting flight has no gold spirits?
- Are spirit labels limited in solo mode?
- If you complete more than one B solo goal, does each one add to your points target?
- Can alcohol stand in for water when a solo goal asks you to sell a spirit containing water?
- Does a gold-tier spirit also count toward a silver or bronze tier solo goal?
- Can one label fill two requirements on a solo goal, and does an Aquavit count toward a grain or plant sugar requirement?
- Does a spirit that needs aging count toward a solo goal to collect its labels before you can sell it?
- In solo goal C14, does a spirit made with two water cards still count if one water is removed during distillation?
- For a Sell goal worth 12 or more points, is the points value at sale used, or the printed value?
- In solo mode, are points from the warehouse, bottle collection, upgrades and leftover money scored at the end?
- Can you complete a face-down solo goal in your active row?
- In solo mode, can you complete goals in a lower row after you have advanced to a higher row?
- Can you claim a solo collect goal you met earlier, after the row has changed or after you discarded some of the items?
- Do the icons on solo goal cards, such as upgrade or bottle icons, give a free reward?
- Does Svetlana's extra money on each sale count toward a solo goal such as selling a spirit worth 8 or more?
- In solo mode, can you swap two goal cards in a row above your active row?
Sequence of a Round
- Must you sell the spirits you have in a particular order during the sell phase?
- How many spirits can you sell in a game?
- Can you sell more than one spirit in a single round?
- Can your starting Glass Bottle be used again to sell a second spirit in the same sell phase?
- When do you claim a spirit label, and when do you take its label bonus?
- Can you sell a spirit and age the same spirit in the same round?
End Game Scoring
- Do the red, blue and green glass goals count bottles with the distiller's region icon?
- Is the bottle collection scored per region, regardless of your distiller's region?
- Is the bonus for bottles from three different regions scored once, even if you have three bottles of each region?
- How is the 'Skip the Easy Stuff' private goal scored?
- How is the 'Close to Home' private goal scored?
- Do bottles you own but have not used count toward the bottle collection at game end?
- Do bottles count toward region goals and awards, or only spirit labels?
- Does Aquavit count toward the Photosynthesis or For the Farmers goals?
- At game end, are leftover coins converted to points before the tiebreak, and does the leftover money break ties?
- If a Distillery Tour Guide upgrade converts money to SP at 3:1, is that money still counted in the end-game money step?
Icon Glossary and Running Out of Cards
- Do basic market ingredient, item and alcohol cards run out?
- What happens when a premium market deck runs out?
- How do you tell from a recipe's icons whether a spirit needs a metal barrel and whether it must be aged?
- Does a distiller's home region icon count toward region goals and awards, including on signature recipes?
Distilled: CocktailsExpansion
- Does Alderic Ivanescu's start-of-round free mixer come from the refrigerator or the supply?
- When can you claim a world-map or collector bonus tile, can you take both, and is there a limit on them?
- Can a cocktail be made from any spirit label already sold on the bonus spaces, or only from the four new spaces?
- Can you choose which collector tile to claim from a collector?
- Does each Tiki glass count as any one of the glass types for the end-game renown multiplier?
- If a world-map bonus gives a cocktail order and both your order slots are full, is a slot free once you serve the cocktail?
- Why does the second washback need its own starting barrel when a barrel also returns to the storeroom after each sale?
- With the second washback, can you distill and sell a non-aged spirit before distilling the second spirit?
- Can the second washback expansion and the Cocktails expansion be played together, and do you get extra warehouse space?
- If I buy a new ingredient from the truck with the Trucker's ability, can I then use a purchase-above-or-below ability on the truck?
- Can the World Renown map be used in solo play?
- Does the Secondhand Washback equipment's extra sugar purchase count toward the basic market limit?
- Can ingredients removed from one washback be used in the second washback in the same round?
- When two players distill in one round and one has a second washback, who claims the spirit labels first?
- Can the Worm Tub's two extra alcohol be added to both washbacks in one round, or split between them?
- Do neutral renown tokens count when working out a renown-based distillery goal?
- Does an unlocked second washback lock again if you do not use it in a round?
- With the second washback, is unlocking it an extra option in the market phase or a third choice?
- Can you play Cocktails with any distiller identity and any tasting flight?
- How many spirit label spaces are there in Cocktails, and can any label be useless?
- How many cocktails can you serve in a game, and must the label be on a spirit label bonus space?
- Does a collector tile's spirit points requirement use the base value or the total including bonuses?
- Do second washback spirits that combine into the same spirit still use up the second washback?
Distilled: Cask StrengthExpansion
- Is Distilled: Cask Strength compatible with solo mode?
- When a Cask Strength special flavour lets you replace a flavour with the top card of the draw pile, can you look at that card and then decline it?
- Does Dynamic Market pricing apply to basic market cards, and to cards swapped in by Black Market Dealer?
- With Cask Sales, does an aged spirit's barrel return to your storeroom even when it normally would?
- Can a spirit sold through Cask Sales in the round it was distilled still earn the aged spirit flavour bonus?
- Do upgraded premium ingredients from Cask Strength cost an extra coin on top of their printed price?
Distilled: Africa & Middle East ExpansionExpansion
- Can I use Africa & Middle East distiller identities with the base game tasting flights?
- Does distilling Arak count toward the three barrel types needed for solo card B17?
- Does the Saeed bin Tariq al-Rashid sell bonus count sugar types as grain, plant and fruit, or as each unique ingredient?
- With Charring Furnace, can you look at the two flavour cards before choosing which one goes into the spirit?
- What happens to flavour cards under the Mixologist when you do not replace any, and where do replaced cards go?
- Are the Africa expansion's signature ingredients shuffled into the premium ingredient deck?