Use the Reins to Trot.

Keep using them to gain speed, up to Canter and Gallop. Canter gathers fatigue gradually, Gallop gathers fatigue very quickly.

If your rams fatigue exceeds 100, it will become exhausted and you will move very slowly for about 13 seconds. You can lower your fatigue by Trotting or having your ram touch the apple barrels. I don't know about hordeside, but in Dun Morogh there's an apple barrel at the Brewfest camp, and there's a barrel under the signpost on the road from the camp to Kharanos.

To keep your ram from getting exhausted I'd recommend you generally keep him at a canter, switch to a gallop if you need a quick burst of speed or if you're near an apple barrel, trot if your ram's fatigue gets close to 100. Have fun!

Комментарий от Dandy

How does the "barker" quest work? (the one to advertise for the breweries - can't get it to work)

Комментарий от 40483

My question is: How do you use the reins the apprentice gives you? There seems to be people repeating the quest continuously but I only seem able to do it once in awhile after the Ram Racing Master gives me another shot at it.

Комментарий от Therax

There's a series of quests that opens the daily beer run event, as well as the Daily barker quest.

First, you're required to demonstrate the ability to maintain each of the three speed levels for eight seconds. Your speed is determined how frequently you "use" the reigns.
In the second quest Neill Ramstein has you make three trips to Kharanos.
The third event is repeatable event, once per day. It doesn't count against your 10 "Daily" quests, though. The event isn't actually a quest. You have 4 minutes to race back and forth, with as many keg turn-ins as possible. Alliance run to Kharanos. Horde travel to a cart that's just a short distance into Drygulch Ravine, south of Orgrimmar.

Each successful turn-in rewards you with three Brewfest Prize Tickets, and an additional 30 seconds added to your ram.

My best time is just under 50 seconds per turn-in. That's 12 turn-ins, for a total of 36 tickets. The following tips helped.

Get Ram Racing Reins from the <Ram Racing Apprentice> before you start. Hotkey them. This lets you get your buttons set before you begin the event.
Gallop the whole way.
Note: the Alliance keg-thrower has a HUGE radius. He has a good throwing arm. He'll accommodate you. This lets you choose your best path for speeding between the apple barrels. (Apparently beer makes you strong and accurate, as well as charismatic and good-looking!)
Don't wait for the keg. As long as you came close enough, the thrower will send the keg flying toward your pack. On both Horde and Alliance, the hurled keg would catch up around the time the mounted character reached the apple barrel.
Run in a straight line, if possible. Horizontal speed is constant. Hills won't slow you down. Following the curve of the roads, and winding around obstacles will.
Ensure that fatigue is dismissed, before you get too far. A faint red flicker around you head precedes the bright flash that clears the fatigue. It works around 95% of the time you pass the apple barrel. No flicker? Turn back, quick! Running on a full Gallop will drive your mount to fatigue before you get too far.
Mid-air flip, at the turn-in. I'd found that the turn-in's "Smite" graphic gave my system a little hiccup, while turning around. That costs an extra second or two, while getting re-oriented. So, take advantage of your forward momentum. Jump. Rotate 180 degrees, while in the air. Hit the ground running back for more! Time your landing so you're within 3-4m of the turn-in. Regardless of graphic quirks, an instant 180-degree flip is slightly faster than a U-turn.

Faction-specific notes
Horde-side, the goblins are far less responsive than the dwarves That's what you get with minimum wage, I tell ya! Get within 2-3m of the keg-thrower. For the turn-in goblin, it's necessary to nearly trample him. Visit his apple-barrel behind him, then run out the front entrance. That worked fairly reliably. The Horde travel route seems to be a bit clearer, than the Alliance equivalent.

Alliance-side, the keg-thrower has a HUGE range. He can consistently reach you on the road. The turn-in is also very reliable. There are fewer apple barrels. One is at the midpoint. The other is along the road, past the keg-thrower, just outside of town. It's worth your time to gallop the whole way and go a little farther to get it.

Комментарий от 64827

also(in responce of Therax) when you bring a barrel back you get more time on you mount so dont just stop when your almost done, go again

Комментарий от 807

Easter egg here. :) "Giddyup" is what Cosmo Kramer from TV show Seinfeld always says.

Комментарий от tale

Edit, updated for 2015.

This seems to change a little every year, so I'm updating a post I made here for what seems to be a pretty good route for 2015 at least. With this route I consistently get 20 trips for 40 tickets. It relies on three main interface elements for optimization:

Binding Action Bar -> Extra Action Button 1 to a convenient key. I use the Backtick key (to the left of the 1 key), and rebind the Tilde key (Shift Backtick) for Toggle Character Pane.
Steering the mount with the right mouse button. Or both left and right mouse buttons.
Steering the camera with the left mouse button.

The main thing with the mouse buttons is you'll use right button (or both buttons) to aim where you want the mount to go, then while it continues running in whatever direction you pointed it you'll use (only) the left button to swing the camera around and face yourself head-on. Then to instantly make a 180 degree turn, you hit the right mouse button again.

The only two barrels used are the northern middle barrel at 54.6, 43.4 next to the signpost just past the bridge over the frozen river, and the southern middle barrel at 54.5, 47.5 just to the west of Steelgrill's Depot. You hit the northern one when headed south and both of them while headed north.

When starting at Neill, face toward the northern barrel, aiming between the Ironforge banners on the left and the pine trees on the right. Your facing direction will be the one you start moving in when the event starts.
Mash your Extra Action Button 1 key to get up to full speed as fast as possible, then tap away at it once a second or so, to maintain full speed.
Run directly at the northern barrel.
As soon as you hit the barrel, use your mouse to quickly turn roughly 30 degrees to your right, and aim straight for the scrawny little bush as the north edge of a rock wall on the west (right) side of the road.
While continuing to tap the reins, let go of the right mouse button and swing your camera around with the left button, so you are looking at yourself head-on.
As soon as pass the north end of the rock wall by the beer throwers, which is the wall between the inn and the forge, immediately press both buttons and start heading back the way you came. Turn slightly right to head for the southern barrel, passing to the left of the trees on the small hill. Usually your beer will reach you as you are passing the trees.
After hitting the south barrel, run (mostly) straight to the north barrel.
After hitting the north barrel, adjust your course slightly to the left to aim between the Ironforge banner on your right and the trees on the left, back to where Neill is.
Swing your camera around again to face yourself.
As soon as you pass the Brewfest banner that is in front of Neill, hit both buttons again to instantly 180 back toward the north barrel.
Back to step 1.

Using this route and never letting up on full speed you end up hitting the south barrel at 90 exhaustion and the north barrel, when headed south again, at 75 exhaustion.

Good luck, and happy racing!

Комментарий от 24066

You may wish to consider redoing your UI completely - I accidentally hit 2 instead of 1 and cast a spell, dismounting me and I was unable to try again until the 12 hours had passed.

Комментарий от Forestman

I missed it last year but this year I think the max you can get is 42 Brewfest Prize Token per run, which I was 1 sec away to get ;_;.

You need to do it with the less lag possible, use instant turning with the mouse and using only 2 apple baskets.

Комментарий от tandk1116

I accept the quest but no reins show up. Anyone else having this issue?

Комментарий от fday

In earlier Brewfests, Поводья скаковых баранов were provided to control the rams speed. Now it’s an action button. There’s an option labeled “Extra Action Button 1” in the key bindings (upper third). With it, you can bind the action button to a key, which is somewhat convenient.

Комментарий от emwowhead

The Поводья скаковых баранов is removed from the game since Brewfest 2013 ( 2013-09-20 to 2013-10-06 )
Now the Extra Action Button 1 is used, known from some bossfights (below center of screen).

Tipp: Use mouse to steer, and use a button to control speed.

With Game Menu - Key bindings - Extra Action Button 1 you can bind a button ,
or put a macro in the actionbar of your choice:
/click ExtraActionButton1

But remove other keybindings around that button, which can dismount you.
Instant casts will dismount you, as well as item use macros, ...

Комментарий от Zaalbeth

A lot of people seem to think these have been removed entirely with 2013. They haven't!

All you have to do is speak to the goblin/dwarf who gives out the daily, and ask for a spare pair. You'll get the usual item, and can put it on your action bar to save you trying to click and steer at the same time :) This is a lot easier than using the new UI button, and quicker and easier than writing a macro for it.

Happy racing!

Edit: Today I picked-up the quest and was immediately granted the item. I'm not sure whether they've hotfixed it, or it's glitchy for some, but at any rate the reins are here to stay!

Комментарий от Scoobydeux

Still available in 2014. All you have to do is speak to the goblin/dwarf Ram Racing Apprentice who stands near the goblin/dwarf Ram Racing Master who gives out the daily, and ask for a spare pair. The Apprentice that you want is standing, the Master is mounted.

Asking is very slightly tricky. Ask the second question, "How do I make my ram go faster?". On the new dialog, ask the first, "Say, you wouldn't happen to have an extra set of reins.". (Dialog transcribed from Horde Ram Racing Apprentice; may vary slightly for Alliance)

Before you do any of the ram quests, either get these reins and bind them to a key or do the keybinding trick described by others below. You can do the ram quests with just the central mouse click button, but you will have more difficulty and you won't get as many runs in on the variable daily.

(Edit, Sept 2015)
~~I prefer the reins~~, as I can use the rolodex on my key bar to set up a set of Brewfest keys, but the keybinding trick is more persistent. The reins disappear after you turn in ram quests, and you have to ask for them again. I'm not sure if this is after every quest, but it happens often.

(Added:)
The "button" on the center of your screen is called the Extra Action Button; it come up fairly frequently and unexpectedly when you accept a quest that involved interaction with some quest item. Given that the reins often disappear, and you might not be aware of it, I highly recommend using an alternate technique that directly interacts with the Extra Action Button. The key binding is reliable, and does not consume a toolbar slot. Or, you can use a macro, (From the BrewFest event article)

/click ExtraActionButton1

Use one of these and ignore the reins item; they are more reliable. Also, you can use these Extra Action Button interactions with any quest that presents the Extra Action Button.
(End of edit, Sept 2015)

If you start a ram quest and realize that you don't have the reins and want them, run your ram straight into the upright post of the tent near the Apprentice. If you are square on, your ram will be running in place without drifting sideways, and you are close enough to talk to the Apprentice. You can ask for the reins without de-spawning your ram..

In case you've never done them before:

Keg runs: Balls to the wall, flush ram fatigue at apple barrels

Barking: Moderate speed, alternate yellow and green, complete circuit

Комментарий от mcalso

This is for Alliance side 2015

I just timed myself, and even with a few mistakes, I made 19 round trips totaling 38 coins and approximately 12 minutes. I'm sure I can squeeze in 20 trips, but I haven't pushed this to the limits just yet. My average round trip is about 40 seconds (give or take a second or two)

Tip 1) As stated before, always gallop. Spam it if you must, but there’s really no need to. The only two refresher points you need to hit are the two in-between the points you’re running to and from. Hit them each time and don’t jump over them. I barely have any lag and on occasion a jump might make me miss if it hasn’t loaded fast enough but being on the ground has never missed (granted there’s no lag of course because lag makes it all unpredictably worse). If you lag, I recommend you wait to do it later because you’ll be missing out on a lot of tokens.

Tip 2) Know where the border is where the NPC throws you the barrel. Once you are in range of the NPC, the barrel is put into your bag. The graphic of him throwing it to you is like any spell, it’ll take time to visually catch up. A lot of people will run up to him and see the throw and once the barrel hits them they turn around. I just run up to the NPC as far as the pathways and snow meet and I keep my bag open to make sure it appears in my bag. Do this a few times and you’ll know exactly that sweet spot where to turn around regardless of seeing the NPC throw you the barrel or not. Do check your bags though, as sometimes turning at the fine line too early means you’re not getting the barrel, but you don’t lose much time if you turn around again.

Tip 3) The border for where you throw the barrel to the NPC is as follows. After grabbing the apple fatigue refresher before delivering the barrel go to the right of the bridge and in-between the trees. You will pass by 2 iron forge banners and the first Brewfest banner you reach, that’s the border to which you will throw for the turn in. Again, the graphic matters less than the barrel actually being out of your bag. A good indicator would be to increase your sound high enough to hear the currency ding of the bewfest tokens being put into your bag.

Tip 4) And this might be the most important tip because you’re fine tuning running along the edges of where you receive barrel and toss barrel, it’s easy to get close to the line and turn around too fast. The other post voted high had mentioned jump turning, while I recommend Q and E strafing. Also, I would recommend zooming in your camera closer to your character just for this quest. So, I do this mostly on the turn in of the barrel because there’s so much debris around me. I come into the brewfest banner holding E, I turn your camera left to see the banner (the closer to the banner the better), and right as I clearly see that I’ve passed the banner I hit Q and strafe the opposite way. On my way out I see my character throw the barrel to the NPC and hear the tokens deposited into my backpack.

Play around with this formula until you perfect it and I’m positive you’ll get over 30 tokens per daily. Again, my average time was 40 seconds so if you have 35s or less there’s no point trying to make it. Every once in a while you might get lucky because it takes the game a second or two to dismount you so you can technically make a round trip if you have 37/38 seconds left on your ram.

Good luck

Комментарий от furdude2

New Note! The barrels seem to actually be run throughable ;) i.e. you don't get stuck at em!

Комментарий от thesnake

Just thought I'd chime in and mention that my best is 21 round trips (yielding 42 coins). On tight runs I am 2-3 seconds short of finishing the 22nd. I'm certain that with a bit more risk taking at both ends you can make it 22. Sadly, server lag plays into this and consequently the game may not register you in a position otherwise sufficient to pick up or drop off a keg.

Edit: Made 22 round trips (i.e., 44 coins) but that should be the limit.

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