People take craft beer seriously. Maybe too seriously. We all know that one guy or girl who swears their home brew is the best, and while they are occasionally correct, it can get a little overbearing. Cooking up your own beer should be fun, because beer. Brew Town [Free], by AppBox Media and I Fight Bears, takes a very Joker-esque, "Why so serious"" approach to creating your own libations, taking you from just one person with a lager and a dream to an outfit big enough to take on the giants of beer.
Brew Town definitely qualifies as a beer-brewing sim, but not one that you'd call particularly hardcore. The overall framework of a simulation is all there, from different buildings spread around your pretty spacious plot of land to the way you can improve the recipes of your various styles of beer. What it doesn't do is get bogged down in the details, instead sharing some DNA with idle tappers and keeping things simple and fairly light-hearted. Don't expect to be chasing down recipes and gathering all kinds of ingredients, because everything here starts with just one thing: hops. You can practically see IPA aficionados nodding their heads in agreement right now.
Grown in a field right on your land, hops can be taken to your first brew house to create your first beer, a lager. The short tutorial teaches you how, and it's really just a matter of tapping a button and waiting for the right amount of time to pass. Maybe a little less complicated than brewing in the ...