Cooking - Drinks

Alongside food comes drink. There are many different drinks within RuneScape, some can be dangerous to your health, others will simply alter your statistics temporarily.

Some drinks will raise levels while at the same time lower others, so plan your refreshments well and use the drinks to your advantage.

When drinking any drink such as the unfinished cocktails, the effects that each drink has on your stats will depend on the stat level of the skill that is being affected.


Wine is made by filling a jug with water from a water source. Then using some grapes (from either the Cooking Guild west of Varrock, or from a table in the Phoenix Gang's hideout) with the jug of water. You will then have unfermented wine. Leave the jug of unfermented wine in your inventory or your bank until you have a jug of wine.

Making wine is not always successful. Sometimes you may find that your wine hasn't matured properly and you get bad wine. Half jugs of wine are not now available in RuneScape, however anyone lucky enough to still have one can use it to heal 70 life points.

Drink	Level Required	Heals	Temporary Stat Change	Experience Gained
Wine	35	110	- Attack	200
Half Jug of Wine	Not available to make anymore	70	- Attack	Not available to make anymore
Bad Wine	35	0	- Attack	0

To make chocolate milk, use an empty bucket with a dairy cow to get a bucket of milk. Then take a chocolate bar and use it with a pestle and mortar (or a knife) to get some chocolate dust. Alternatively, you can go to the Grand Tree grocery store and buy some chocolate dust. Use the chocolate dust with the bucket of milk to make chocolate milk.

Drink	Level Required	Heals	Temporary Stat Change	Experience Gained
Chocolate Milk	1	40	No effect	0

To make nettle tea, fill a bowl with water. Next, get some nettles; these may be obtained from a patch of nettles north-east of the Slayer Master in Canifis. Then add the nettles to the bowl of water. Use the nettle-water with a Cooking range or a fire. You now have a bowl of nettle tea. If you want to drink your tea from a cup, use the bowl of nettle tea with a cup. If you take milk, use a bucket of milk with it.

Drink	Level Required	Heals	Temporary Stat Change	Experience Gained
Nettle Tea	20	30	No effect	52

These types of drinks are made by brewing. You can make the different types of ales by fermenting various ingredients. For more information, please see the Cooking Methods section.

Drink	Required Level	Experience Gained	Heals	Temporary Stat Change
				Increase	Decrease
Ranger's Aid/ Ranger's Aid (m)~	n/a	n/a	10	Ranged 2 (3 for mature version)	Defence 2 (3 for mature version)*
Cider	14	182	10	Farming 1	Attack 2* Strength 2*
Dwarven Stout	19	215	10	Mining 1 Smithing 1	Attack 2* Strength 2* Defence 2*
Asgarnian Ale	24	248	10	Strength 2	Attack 2*
Greenman's Ale	29	281	10	Herblore 1	Attack 2* Strength 2* Defence 2*
Wizard's Mind Bomb	34	314	10	Magic 2-3*	Attack 1* Strength 1* Defence 1*
Dragon Bitter	39	347	10	Strength 2	Attack 1*
Moonlight Mead	44	380	40	No Effect	No Effect
Axeman's Folly	49	413	10	Woodcutting 1	Attack 2* Strength 2*
Chef's Delight	54	446	10	Cooking 1-5*	Attack 2* Strength 2*
Slayer's Respite	59	479	10	Slayer 1	Attack 2* Strength 2*

*Please note that the increase/decrease you receive to the skills depends on your level.
~Ranger's Aid can only be bought from the Poison Arrow pub, south of East Ardougne's marketplace. It cannot be brewed; it is only included here for completeness.


Many cocktails can be bought from Blurberry's Bar, in the Grand Tree. You also have the option of creating your own cocktails, using ingredients and alcoholic beverages found in the Grand Tree. For information of the effects when drinking pre-made cocktails bought directly from the Grand Tree, see Flavours Of The Gnome Lands.

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