Cards & Components

Every Beer Pioneers (Bier Pioniere) component with a picture: the boards, all 64 action cards with their display icons, orders and white actions, the starting, setup and objective cards, extension and cellar tiles, beer tiles and tokens, the Beer Boom components and the icons.

Card faces come from Spielefaible’s English card sheet; boards, tiles and tokens are scans of the printed components from the public Beer Pioneers Tabletop Simulator mod (its bonus action / round end board is the German print); icons and Beer Boom pieces come from the English rulebooks. Effects are in our own words; the card text wins.

Boards

Picture	Description
	Game board — card display and brewing level track, turn order area, objectives, the 8 worker action areas, truck spaces, exchange and the score track (numbered tour). FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ FAQ Both spaces of an action area may be used in one round if both are free; the turn-order worker blocks its chosen spot. Reaching 20 points starts the final round, and the track can continue beyond 25. FAQ
	Brewery board (4) — coops, barrel depot, progress track, cellar, extension and retirement spaces, brewmaster space, administrative area (numbered tour). The “+” administrative spaces can let you choose one part if the other is unavailable; cellar retirement tiles are set randomly, so you choose the matching space when upgrading. Any tagged worker may advance one step, but you may upgrade only once per round. FAQ
	Bonus action / round end board — basic and improved bonus areas (Bonus actions); the five round end steps and the income track (Round End). FAQ FAQ FAQ Take a bonus only after your worker action when worker plus space experience reaches 6; with 2 lightbulbs you may still choose the basic area.

Cards

Action cards

64 cards, each with a beige-brown display row, a purple order and a white action — one of the three is always empty (Action cards). “Display” lists the icons the card adds to your display: lightbulbs, new barrels, barrels moved and rotations. “Brewmaster” marks a permanent effect when slid under your board (Brewmaster characters). The 12 starting action cards are marked S. FAQ FAQ FAQ

Picture	Description
	Clemens Veltins — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; take 1 card. Brewmaster: 1 each time you place your upgrade marker; 1 at once. Playing him gives 1 point immediately; each later upgrade-marker placement pays another point while he remains your brewmaster.
	Theodor Stauder — Order: 1 Pils + 1 barrel → 3 ; Truck fleet +1 card. Brewmaster: each time you brew only Export, take 1 barrel. A brewing action triggers this only when its sole dial is that beer type; rotations do not count. FAQ
	Johann Fiege — Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation. Brewmaster: pay 1 coin and 1 once; from now on you may use occupied action spaces (place your worker beside the other). FAQ Pay the coin and point only when you install him; later uses of occupied spaces have no extra fee. FAQ Only tagged workers may join an occupied space — not the truck or the turn-order worker.
	Josef Diebels — Order: 2 Alt + 2 barrels → 4 ; Truck fleet +1 coin. Brewmaster: each time you brew only Alt, take 1 coin. A brewing action triggers this only when its sole dial is that beer type; rotations do not count. FAQ
	Anton Dreher — Order: Pils + Export + 2 barrels → 5 . Brewmaster: each time you brew only Lager, gain 1 . A brewing action triggers this only when its sole dial is that beer type; rotations do not count. FAQ
	Josef Groll — Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 2 rotations. Brewmaster: each time you brew only Pils, take 1 card. A brewing action triggers this only when its sole dial is that beer type; rotations do not count. FAQ
	Fritz Brinkhoff — Order: 2 Lager + 2 barrels → 6 ; Truck fleet +1 coin. Brewmaster: 1 coin for every 4 rotations in your turn; when played, X rotations once. FAQ While he is your brewmaster, each complete group of 4 rotations in a turn pays 1 coin; the X rotations are only when played.
	Theodor König — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 card. Brewmaster: 1 if your administrative action is your first action of a round. FAQ This point applies only when the administrative action is your first action of that round.
	Heinrich Beck — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; 1 . Brewmaster: an order with only one type of beer gives 1 more. The order may contain several beers, but all delivered beer tiles must be the same type for the extra point.
	Adolph Coors — Order: Stark + Pils + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 . Brewmaster: your “brew 1 beer” actions brew 2. This changes only an action that explicitly brews 1 beer; a normal brewing action still follows your level.
	Conrad Brüne — Order: Lager + Pils + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 coin. White: complete an order once; +1 if Stark is part of it. The extra point is part of this white-card order completion only when the order includes Stark.
	Frederic Miller — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin. Brewmaster: in orders, Pils, Export and Lager may stand in for one another. In an order, substitute Pils, Export and Lager for one another as needed.
	Conrad Binding — Order: 1 Lager + 1 barrel → 1 card and 3 . Brewmaster: after each truck action also take 1 coin or 1 card. Choose either 1 coin or 1 card after each truck action.
	Gabriel Segelmayr — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 2 rotations. Brewmaster: bonus actions need an experience sum of only 5. The normal bonus-action threshold is 6; this reduces the required combined worker and space experience to 5.
	W. von Hövel — Display: lightbulb; 1 coin, 2 rotations, 1 card. Order: Weizen + Export + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 coin.
	Eduard Vormann — Display: move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin. Brewmaster: in orders you may pay coins instead of barrels. In a purple order, each required barrel may instead be paid with a coin.
	Beer tapping device — Display: 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; 2 rotations. White: 1 for every 2 extensions you have built. Five extensions, for example, score 2 points; an unpaired extension adds nothing.
	First beer truck — Display: move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin, 1 card. White: build the Truck fleet for 2 coins and draw 1 card.
	Yeast cultivation system — Display: 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; 1 card. White: 1 rotation per beer of yours; 3 or more rotations also give 1 . The point is added only if the rotation total is at least 3.
	Flip-top closure — Starting card (S). Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin. White: spend 1 , 1 card and 1 barrel (from the cellar) to build an extension. The barrel cost must come from your cellar, not your depot.
	Beer coaster — Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 card. White: spend 2 and choose 2 different: 1 Pils, 1 Alt, 1 brewery progress. Choose two different rewards from the three listed; pay the 2 points first.
	Glass beer bottle — Starting card (S). Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 barrel. White: place your upgrade marker for free, or 1 brewery progress. Choose one of the two effects: a free worker upgrade or one progress step.
	Beer crate — Display: move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 card, 1 coin. White: spend 1 for 1 beer of any type, or place your upgrade marker for free. Choose one effect: pay 1 point for any beer, or upgrade a worker for free.
	Crown cork — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation. White: exchange up to 2 beers in your cellar for 2 beers from the supply. The publisher’s Kölsch expansion rules clarify this as a two-for-two exchange; the beers may come from either or both cellars. They do not say whether you may exchange only one beer. FAQ
	Barrel filling — Starting card (S). Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel; 1 card, move 1 barrel. White: pay 1 coin and return 1 barrel to your depot, then take 1 beer of any type. Return a barrel from the cellar to your depot before taking the beer.
	Refreshment kiosk — Order: 2 Pils + 2 barrels → 6 ; Truck fleet +1 card. White: move your deployed turn order worker to another space and take its bonus. Move your already-placed untagged worker to a different turn-order space and take that space’s bonus.
	Brew house — Starting card (S). Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel; 1 card. Order: 1 Stark + 1 barrel → 3 ; Truck fleet +1 coin.
	Hop depot — Order: 1 Weizen + 1 barrel → 3 . White: reset your administrative worker to its starting space and use it again for 1 administrative action. Resetting the administrative worker lets you take that one-use action again this round.
	Ice cellar — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation. Order: Export + Lager + Pils + 3 barrels → 8 .
	Beer city Dortmund — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation. Order: Alt + Export + Pils + 3 barrels → 7 ; Truck fleet +1 coin.
	Beer city Milwaukee — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation. Order: Weizen + Stark + Pils + 3 barrels → 8 .
	Oktoberfest Munich — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel; 1 card. Order: any beer + Weizen + Stark + 3 barrels → 7 ; Truck fleet +1 card.
	Parade float — Display: lightbulb, 1 rotation; 1 card. Order: 2 Export + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 coin.
	Farrier — Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel; 1 card. Order: Lager + Weizen + Export + 3 barrels → 8 .
	Beer garden — Order: any beer + 1 barrel → 2 . White: take 2 coins and 1 card.
	F. J. Wicküler — Starting card (S). Order: Pils + Alt + 2 barrels → 5 . White: discard 1 Alt or spend 1 ; then take 1 Lager or 1 Pils. Choose either to discard an Alt or spend 1 point, then take a Lager or Pils.
	G. A. Heineken — Starting card (S). Order: Export + Lager + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 . White: choose up to 2 different: 1 coin, 1 card, 1 barrel, move 1 barrel. Choose up to two different benefits; you may take only one, and cannot repeat an option.
	E. E. C. Guinness — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin. Order: 1 Stark + 1 barrel → 1 card, 2 and 1 coin.
	F. W. Müser — Starting card (S). Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 2 rotations. Order: 1 Export + 1 barrel → 2 coins; Truck fleet +2 .
	Franz H. Wenker — Starting card (S). Order: 1 Export + 1 barrel → 1 coin and 2 . White: discard 1 Alt, take 1 Export or 1 Pils, then draw 1 card. Discard an Alt first; then take one listed beer and draw from the pile.
	Adolf I. Mautner — Starting card (S). Order: Export + Stark + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 coin. White: pay 1 coin for 1 , or place your upgrade marker for free. Choose either the paid point or the free worker upgrade.
	Carl von Linde — Order: Lager + Weizen + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 . White: 2 rotations, then you may build the Cooling system for 2 coins. Take the two rotations first; building the Cooling system is optional and costs 2 coins.
	Wilhelm Overbeck — Order: Pils + Weizen + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 barrel. White: build the Machine Hall for 2 coins and take 1 barrel or move 1 barrel.
	Joseph Schlitz — Order: Lager + Stark + 2 barrels → 6 ; Truck fleet +1 coin. White: pay 2 coins and choose 2 different: 1 beer, 2 cards, remove 1 blocking token, X rotations. After paying 2 coins, choose two different options; X rotations uses the rotation total in your display.
	Lorenz Enzinger — Order: any beer + Pils + 2 barrels → 4 ; Truck fleet +1 coin. White: discard 1 card and spend 1 to build the Beer filter.
	Louis Pasteur — Order: Weizen + Pils + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 card. White: build the Laboratory for 2 coins and draw 1 card.
	Emil Ch. Hansen — Starting card (S). Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel; 1 . Order: 1 Alt + 1 barrel → 1 card and 2 .
	The Eagle — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin. Order: Stark + Alt + 2 barrels → 1 card and 5 .
	Karl J. N. Balling — Order: 1 Pils + 1 barrel → 3 . White: discard 1 Alt and take 1 barrel, 1 and 2 coins. Discard an Alt to take all three listed rewards.
	Luise Wenker — Order: 2 Pils + 1 barrel → 1 card and 5 (one barrel only: a typo the designer lets stand). White: remove 1 blocking token and take 1 coin, or 5 rotations. FAQ The printed order asks for two Pils but only one barrel; the designer says you may use it as printed. You may complete it as printed with one barrel.
	Robert Sputh — Order: Export + Alt + 2 barrels → 5 . White: complete an order once, gaining 1 more or delivering 1 barrel less. Complete the order, then choose either 1 extra point or deliver one fewer barrel.
	Theodor Fetköter — Order: Pils + any beer + Export + 3 barrels → 2 cards and 7 . White: complete an order once, then take 1 coin or 1 card. Complete the order first, then choose one extra coin or one card.
	Beer pioneers — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation. Order: 1 Lager + 1 barrel → 1 coin and 3 .
	Schützenliesl — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, 1 rotation; 2 rotations. Order: 2 Weizen + 2 barrels → 5 ; Truck fleet +1 coin.
	Barrel porter — Display: move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 card, 1 coin. Order: 2 Stark + 2 barrels → 6 .
	Cooper — Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 coin. Order: Lager + Alt + 2 barrels → 1 coin and 5 .
	Hop farmer — Display: lightbulb, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 card. White: discard 1 Alt and make up to 8 rotations. Discard an Alt to make any number of rotations up to 8.
	Gatekeeper — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel; move 1 barrel, 1 card. Order: Weizen + Alt + 2 barrels → 4 ; Truck fleet +1 coin.
	Beer mug — Starting card (S). Display: lightbulb, 1 rotation; 1 card, 2 rotations. Order: Stark + Weizen + 2 barrels → 1 barrel and 5 .
	Innkeeper — Display: lightbulb, 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel; move 1 barrel. Order: Pils + Export + 2 barrels → 5 .
	Beer cart driver — Display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; move 1 barrel. Order: Export + Alt + 2 barrels → 2 barrels and 4 .
	Beer city Pilsen — Starting card (S). Order: 1 Export + 1 barrel → 2 coins and 2 . White: play a card once as a purple order or as a beige-brown card. Choose one hand card and play it once as an order or into your display.
	Brewer — Display: move 1 barrel, 1 rotation; 1 barrel, 2 rotations. White: make X rotations, then brew exactly 1 beer. Make your chosen rotations first, then add exactly one brewing dial, even at a higher brewing level.
	Maltster — Display: lightbulb, 1 rotation; 2 rotations, 1 card. Order: 1 Pils + 1 barrel → 3 .

Starting cards

Rulings that apply to every row below: The rulebook’s display examples leave out the starting card — can I remove it?.

Picture	Description
	First player — display: 1 new barrel, move 1 barrel, 2 rotations. Start with 2 barrels in the depot, 3 starting action cards and 4 coins.
	Second player — same display; 1 barrel in the cellar and 1 in the depot, 3 cards, 4 coins.
	Third player — same display; 2 barrels in the cellar, 3 cards, 4 coins.
	Fourth player — same display; 2 barrels in the depot, 3 cards, 5 coins. FAQ Not a misprint: the extra coin makes up for starting with no barrel in the cellar.

Setup cards

Each lists the action spaces covered for the game (number + A upper / B lower space; 9 = truck coin space); some add a first-player bonus on a space (setup).

Picture	Description
	2 players — covers 1A, 2A, 3B, 4B, 5A, 6B, 7A, 8B.
	2 players — covers 1B, 2B, 3A, 4B, 5B, 7A, 8B and 9.
	3 players — covers 1B, 4B, 7B, 8B.
	3 players — covers 1B, 5B and 9; also shows the “first: + move 1 barrel” symbol.
	3 players — covers 3A, 6B, 7B; also shows the “first: + move 1 barrel” symbol.
	3 players — covers 2B, 6B, 8B; also shows the “first: + 1 coin” symbol.
	3 players — covers 2A, 4A, 7A; also shows the “first: + 1 coin” symbol.
	3 players — covers 5B, 7A and 9.

The rulebook does not explain the first-player symbols on four 3-player cards (they match the first-truck bonuses of the two order and barrel truck spaces): check against the physical component.

Objective cards

One is placed each game beside the two printed objectives (Objectives): 3 for the first, 2 for the second. FAQ FAQ

Picture	Description
	Brewing level 4.
	4 lightbulbs in your display.
	7 barrels in depot and cellar.
	6 blocking tokens removed.
	4 extensions built.

Beer Boom cards

Pictured as groups. Individual faces: to be added.

Picture	Description
	13 new action cards (beer mug symbol) — usable with or without modules (Beer Boom). If Julius Bötzow or The Thirsty Man lets you play a card into your display, it may be any card from your hand, not necessarily the one just taken. FAQ
	16 Brewing waste cards (Module 1).
	2 new setup cards — 2 players: 1A, 3B, 5A, 6A; 3 players: 1B, 2A, 3B, 4A, 5B, 6B, 8A, 9.
	16 Automa cards (8 blue, 8 red, A and B) (Solo).
	6 solo setup cards (Solo).

Tiles

Extension tiles

As many of each as players; the top tile of each stack shows the first-builder (Extension tiles).

Picture	Description
	Beer filter — remove a cover tile; up to 3 rotations. Remove one cover tile of your choice; this also gives up to 3 rotations immediately.
	Truck fleet — improved barrel depot and 1 coin; order bonuses. FAQ
	Laboratory — sacrifice a bonus worker: a second rotation per dial at round end; up to 2 rotations now. FAQ After you sacrifice a small bonus worker, each dial must turn once and may turn a second time at each round end; building it also grants up to 2 rotations.
	Cooling system — remove a cover tile; brewing level +1. Choose one of the large or small cover tiles; removing it unlocks those beer types after their blocking tokens are gone.
	Malt factory — a beer of your choice into the cellar; move 1 barrel. The beer can be a type you cannot brew yet; move the barrel as a separate reward.
	Machine Hall — your 2 extra small bonus workers. These two additional workers join your supply for later bonus actions and objectives.
	Improved barrel depot (from the Truck fleet) — 5 spaces and a permanent virtual barrel (Barrel depot and cellar). Only cellar barrels pay or fulfill orders; depot barrels still count toward the 7-barrel objective. FAQ

Cover and cellar tiles

Picture	Description
	Large cover tile — over Pils, Export, Lager, with 3 blocking token slots (Blocking tokens). Removing its blocking tokens alone does not uncover the three beers; an extension must remove this cover tile.
	Small cover tile — over Stark and Weizen, 2 slots. Removing its blocking tokens alone does not uncover Stark or Weizen; an extension must remove this cover tile.
	Large cellar tile — brewing level +1 and income +1 (Cellar tile bonuses). Apply its brewing-level and income increases when the matching worker reaches the retirement space at round end.
	Medium cellar tile — 1 progress or play a card as beige-brown. FAQ Choose one of the two printed benefits when the matching worker retires at round end.
	Medium cellar tile — 1 barrel and move 2, or remove a blocking token. FAQ
	Small cellar tile — a beer of your choice, or brewing level +1. Choose one of its two benefits when the matching worker retires at round end.
	Cover tile (8) — blocks an action space with 2 or 3 players.
	Truck cover tile — blocks truck space 9.

Beer tiles

These numbers are the base rotations for a brewing dial; add the brewery progress value. Beer tiles return to an unlimited supply when delivered or exchanged.

Rulings that apply to every row below: Are coins, barrels and beer tiles limited?.

Picture	Description
	Pils — coop 3 (+ progress).
	Export — coop 3.
	Lager — coop 4.
	Stark — coop 4.
	Weizen — coop 3.
	Alt — coop 3; the only type open at the start.

Tokens & pieces

Picture	Description
	Coin (40). FAQ The printed quantity is not a limit; the supply is unlimited.
	Barrel (36 brown; a coloured one per player marks turn order). FAQ FAQ FAQ The printed quantity is not a limit; the supply is unlimited.
	Blocking token (32).
	Brewing dials — one set of 6 per player; the bar shows the rotations left (Brewing time). Advance each dial separately at round end. FAQ
	Workers — per player 2 tagged (1 and 2; 3 and 4 by upgrade), 2 untagged, 2 small bonus workers (+2 from the Machine Hall); plus the neutral grey worker (experience 2) and truck. FAQ FAQ

Icons

Picture	Description
	Victory point.
	Coin.
	Barrel — green number: take new; black number with arrow: move to the cellar.
	Lightbulb — improved bonus actions and final scoring.
	Flash — immediate effect when the card is played.
	Blocking token — with a curved arrow: remove one.
	Action card — take (or draw) that many.
	Truck — truck action.
	Brew — “1!” brews exactly 1 beer.
	Extension — build an extension tile.
	Beige-brown card — play a card into your display.