Learn Beer Pioneers
Learn the game in 5 short steps. Everything links to the full rules.
Welcome to Beer Pioneers
Germany, around 1850. You turn a small home brewery into a big one: brew six kinds of beer, improve your brewery, train your workers and deliver beer for points. Known in German as Bier Pioniere.
The first to 20 victory points ends the game at the end of that round. 2–4 players (solo with the Beer Boom expansion), 75–100 minutes. Ready? Open the setup checklist.
One action a turn
Each turn you take one action; each round you have about five: 2 worker actions, a turn order action, a truck action and an administrative action on your own board. A worker whose experience plus the space’s value reaches 6 also earns a bonus action. All actions.
Brew beer
Put a brewing dial on an open coop: it needs the coop’s number plus your progress bonus in rotations. Turn it with rotation actions and at every round end; at 0 the beer goes to your cellar. At first only Alt is open. Brewing and cards.
Cards and orders
Every card has three uses: beige-brown in your display (icons that power your actions), purple order (deliver beer and barrels for points) or white action / brewmaster. Barrels must be in the cellar to deliver. Action cards.
Race to 20
When someone reaches 20 points, finish the round. Then each lightbulb in your display can turn a cellar beer into a point — and at the top brewing level, a coin too. Most points wins. Game end and scoring.