Brew Brothers Xmas Brew

Brew Brothers Xmas Brew: Slot Overview

Software provider Slotmill has gotten into the seasonal swing of things by designing its first Christmas slot. For the occasion, the studio has pulled out Brew Brothers, released in early 2024, and transformed it into Brew Brothers Xmas Brew. As you will see, the features have remained the same; however, after receiving player feedback, the team has retuned the mathematics to produce what could be seen as an enhanced version of Brew Brothers. Max win has been expanded as well, so we've got an Xmas reskin on our hands that's kinda the same yet tweaked in critical areas, too.

The outer shell is an important cosmetic tweak for any Christmas reskin, and while Brew Brothers Xmas Brew is held in the same location as before, the season has changed. Now, snow coats the brother's back of nowhere house, built deep in the woods where no one can see them brewing up their concoctions. A Christmas tree and a snowman have been placed up front, ensuring gamblers are well and truly aware as to what part of the year Brew Brothers Xmas Brew takes place in.

A wooden framed gaming grid adorned in Christmas decorations sits in the middle of the screen, displaying 4 rows of symbols on each of its 5 reels. Players may wager 20 c to $/€60 per spin, either in the regular mode or in the faster-than-fast Burst Mode. Another thing you can do is activate the Xtra-Bet to increase the chance of triggering free spins by 2.5x. Doing so adds 50% extra onto the stake. Brew Brothers Xmas Brew's RTP is slightly higher than Brew Brothers' at 96.14%, while the volatility remains high.

Brew Brothers Xmas Brew makes use of 40 paylines awarding winning combinations from the leftmost grid side, and there are 10 pay symbols in the game. They are J to A, a bucket of ice, corn, yeast, sugar, and 2 brother symbols. The rewards for hitting 5-of-a-kind combos vary from 1.4 to 12.5 times the stake.

Brew Brothers Xmas Brew: Slot Features

Brew Brothers Xmas Brew reuses the same group of features as Brew Brothers, meaning wild multipliers, Old Betty, free spins with sticky wilds, a Tractor feature, and Fast Track bonus buys are back.

The Wild Symbol

Wilds substitute for all regular pay symbols and appear on the three middle reels. Wilds may land with an x2 or x3 multiplier, which applies to all wins the multiplier wild is part of. If more than one multiplier wild is part of the same betline win, their multipliers are added together. Lines of 5 wilds pay 25 times the bet. Moreover, when scatters do not trigger free spins, they convert to single wild symbols.

Old Betty

The Old Betty symbol is also wild, substituting for all symbols except scatters. It is present on the leftmost and rightmost reel. Upon landing, there is a chance Old Betty activates, adding 1 to 9 wild symbols to reels 2, 3, and 4. If the Old Betty adds wild symbols to positions that already have a wild symbol, the multiplier of that wild increases by +1. Only one Old Betty may be present per reel.

Free Spins with Sticky Wilds

Landing 3 scatter symbols awards 7 free spins. In the free spins round, all wild symbols landing on reels 2, 3, or 4 remain in place for the duration of the feature. Landing the Old Betty symbol during free spins or once the round has started, upgrades the symbol to a Gold Betty symbol. Gold Betty symbols remain in place for the duration of the free spins round and have a chance of activating every free spin. Scatter symbols are not present during free spins, so the bonus cannot be triggered.

Tractor Feature

During free spins, filling reels 2, 3, and 4 totally with wild symbols triggers the Tractor feature. The Tractor feature creates a Giant Wild symbol covering the middle three reels. The giant wild symbol counts as a single wild on all positions on the three reels. Existing wild symbol multipliers above x1 are added to the Giant Wild symbol, applying to the wins the wild is part of. Each extra wild added from a Gold Betty increases the Giant Wild multiplier by +1.

Fast Track

By opening up the Fast Track menu, players can activate these options: Gold Betty Free Spins (750x the bet) - buys a game round, triggering free spins with 2 Gold Betties, Random Gold Betty Free Spins (375x the bet) for a game round triggering random Gold Betty Free Spins, Free Spins (100x the bet) buys a game round triggering free spins, Old Betty (30x the bet) buys a game round triggering Old Betty, and 2+ Bonus Symbols (10x the bet) buys a game round triggering 2+ scatter symbols.

Brew Brothers Xmas Brew: Slot Verdict

The warm fuzzies return as Slotmill continues to refine its products based on player feedback. We've seen this occur in past Slotmill releases such as Coin Quest 2, and Brew Brothers Xmas Brew is another example of this game maker/player symbiotic interaction. Of course, the provider still aims to create games that, in the long run, collect more cash than they dish out, but when it comes to dishing out, changes have been made between Brew Brothers and Brew Brothers Xmas Brew that theoretically help sweeten the experience.

According to Slotmill, enhancements in this Xmas version include more wild action in the bonus round and more wilds from Gold Bettys. Hence, several increased Fast Track buy prices. This should, in theory, lead to more Tractor feature triggers, as well. Don't be thinking it will be easy to drag in the Tractor though, it wasn't during testing. But there could be a lot of wild symbols thrown at the reels in bonus rounds, though those stingy 0 wild Gold Bettys remain exasperating. You still don't get a huge number of free spins when the bonus triggers, so it might have been swell if there was a way of winning more free spins while the round was active. But, if Slotmill added those, it would likely have had to remove something else to balance the game out, and as it is, when wilds are stacking up, even 7 non-retriggerable free spins can be a thrill.

They can also produce bigger max wins now, too, topping out at 15,000x compared to Brew Brother's 12,000x. To sum up, Brew Brothers Xmas Brew diverts from its predecessor in perhaps subtle yet critical ways, and it's just like Slotmill to release an enhanced version of a previous slot for Christmas rather than just switch skins and call it job done.