After some slow months, things seem to be really heating up for Cryptobrewmaster. Just today, the game introduced a second beer to the brewery - the Bella, a Wheat IPA.

The Bella is using two new ingredients that have been introduced to the pub last week, the rest of the ingredients are shared with the already available beer, the European Lager. Together with the recently added market, this new addition is really shaking things up.

One of the core issues Cryptobrewmaster had, was that there was nothing to spend your CBM on. Prior to the market, the only thing to spend CBM on was to speed up your actions or to drink beer from the pub. This in turn did refill some of your energy which can be used to complete tasks in the pub. The thing was - you recovered enough energy to do all free quests without the need to ever drink any beer.

Thanks to the new ingredients added to the pub together with some additional tweaks to balance, this issue is no more. Without spending CBM on beer, there's no way to complete all tasks on a daily basis. Good Wheat Malt alone needs 24 energy (so a whole day worth of energy recovery) to get from a task.

I really like how the game has been progressing recently, as these new changes help to make several different play styles viable. Some of them are more profitable than others, so depending on how much you want to interact with the game, different approaches might be the best choice for you. Let's have a look at what these different strategies might look like:

The Freeroller

This would be the most basic level of involvement with the game. This is where you'll make the lowest profit but you'll do so without any risk and you will only have to interact with the game on a very basic level. The idea is simple really - do as many of the free tasks each day, list the ingredients at the market (undercutting the cheapest offer by a fraction), and return the next day to claim your rewards and start the next task.

The good thing about this strategy is that you don't risk any of your CBM (or Hive) and you only need to spend a couple of minutes on the game each day. You can expect your sales to amount to about 10 CBM each day just selling these normal ingredients. At current pricing, that's about 0.6 Hive daily. Not much, but also a lot more than what you would earn from most faucets out there. Still, it's nothing I'd advise you to do since there's a way better option to follow:

The Premium Seller

Much like the Freeroller, the Premium Seller is not interested in brewing beer himself. Instead, he aims to sell as many high quality ingredients as he can for the best price possible on the market. The key difference is that the Premium Seller is willing to reinvest his CBM in order to get higher returns on the ingredients he's collecting from the pub tasks.

As you can see, you can expect to earn way higher returns on higher quality ingredients than what you get for the normal ones. So what you want to do is take a look at the market and check the different ingredients, picking the ones with the highest prices for good/outstanding quality ingredients. You'd then do the corresponding task, get the ingredient, and list it at a price slightly below the currently lowest offer.

Alternatively, you could also get all available ingredients by drinking some beers each day. This way, you wouldn't have to worry about what ingredients to get when but your return per energy would be a bit lower than by doing the tasks selectively. On the bright side, you'd compete for the Busy Bee Event, potentially netting you even more ingredients to sell.

Either way, the risk of actually loosing CBM that way are negligible in my opinion and you'll certainly earn more CBM per day than what the Freeroller will earn. The main risk involved with this strategy is that too many people might be picking it up, thus reducing the market prices to a level where it's no longer profitable to sell ingredients. Since this should in turn move more players to the next category, that should only be a temporary problem, though.

The Top Manufacturer

For this strategy, you won't sell your ingredients but instead use them to brew beer yourself. This strategy is potentially the most profitable but it's also the most competitive one. The idea is to brew enough beer to compete in the Top Manufacturer, Wholeseller, and the Top Brewery events simultaneously.

To do so, you'd brew as many beers as possible during the event and sell them all at the same time, ideally making people drink your top beer in the pub. If done right, you can compete in all 3 of the above mentioned events in one go and get premium ingredients from all of them. These ingredients will then be used to attack another round of events or to be sold at a premium.

To be perfectly clear on that topic - don't just brew a beer and sell it whenever you have the ingredients or finished a beer. By doing so, you miss the chance to compete in these events. The ingredients you can receive from these events are worth a lot CBM and it can make or break this strategy. There are some really active brewers competing each week and you only have a chance to beat them if you gather enough ingredients before going for the event. So you absolutely will have to invest CBM/Hive first in order to get enough high quality ingredients.

Following that route certainly is a high risk high reward strategy. If done right, you get a great ROI on your investment but if done wrong, you might loose some CBM in the process. Personally, I'd only follow that route if you are prepared to invest both time and CBM into actually playing the game. To me, that strategy is certainly the most entertaining but since it's also the most time consuming, I mostly switch between the Top Manufacturer and the Premium Seller.

No matter what what strategy you follow, there's one thing you always want to do: Bring new players to Cryptobrewmaster! The referral reward program is extremely generous and I already received ingredients worth hundreds of CBM from bringing new players to the game. The cool thing is that you don't even need a Hive account to register with the game. Since it's free to join as well, bringing new players to the game is a lot easier than what you might be used to from other games on Hive.

That's all from me today, thank you all for reading and please let me know what you think of the game and (if you mind to share) what strategy you are following.