Golden Brew

Oktoberfest, you guys – a great and very famous beer festival in Munich, is the star of Golden Brew! Trust Endorphina to come up with interesting themes every single time. In Golden Brew, you are introduced to 5×4 reels with 50 paylines and a 96.06% RTP. You stand to win 1,400x in payouts; but you might get so much more from the game.

The star of the show is the Expanding Wild that might happen during the Beer Pub Bonus (more on that later). There’s also a Moving Wild which happens in Free Spins. And as always, a fun Risk Game is possible on every win. Grab your beers and pretzels, we’re going Oktobercrazy!

We love holidays and festive slots. Sure, this is not a holiday slot, but Oktoberfest is a pretty important festival, so we were delighted to see a game centered around the event.

And don’t let us get misunderstood: Golden Brew is not a very innovative slot. Nor it is a state-of-the-art game; it’s just a fun slot with a great theme.

That being said, you will encounter precisely 5 reels, 4 rows, and 50 fixed paylines in the game. You can play with bets ranging from $0.50 to $150, but our advice is to start slow and slowly work your way up to a higher bet (if you want that at all). The RTP for the slot peaks at 96.06%, but we are not sure about volatility. Still, it’s a pretty decent game in terms of gameplay, but we fear it might not be overly palatable for low rollers (due to high stakes). But you can win up to 1,400x the stake.

A fun thing about gameplay is the use of cycles for spins in the base game. Namely, you have 10 spins where the beer bar fills beside the grid. At the end of spin 10, it launches the Beer Pub bonus, which might or may not trigger an Expanding Wild. If yes, the barrels sitting atop the grid will pour beer on the reels below, so you might get an extra boost in terms of payouts.

There’s also the recognizable Risk game, that you can use to double winnings (if you desire so).

Golden Brew has a bit higher bet than regular slots. The minimum you can wager on a round is $0.50, which is pretty high for a minimum. Plus, the maximum you can win is 1,400x the stake.

The highest bet in the game is $150 per round.

Game icons include card royals 10, J, Q, K, and A that pay up to 0.50x for 5 matching tiles. Similarly, high-rank icons such as pretzels, sausages, beer, mugs, hats, horn and the accordion pay between 0.70x and 0.80x for the same number of icons.

Scatters pay 2x for 3, 20x for 4, and 200x for 5 icons.

Golden Brew has Free Spins with Moving Wilds, Expanding Wilds, and the Risk Game.

Beer Pub Bonus

The beer pub bonus is a bonus round that might trigger every 10 spins. During 10 spins in the base game, the meter beside the grid fills with beer. When it’s full (at the end of the 10^th spin) it will potentially unleash the Beer Pub Bonus – a beer pouring feature in which the barrels of beer that are above the grid pour beer down the designated reels.

Now, during the said 10 spins, you will also notice golden Coins. These fly off the grid onto the barrels, and each barrel can contain up to 2 Coins. If you collect 2 Coins on a barrel, that barrel will spill the beer. The poured beer transforms into an Expanding Wild which covers the entire reel. This gives you a better chance to win something.

Free Spins

Free Spins in Golden Brew start with 3, 4, or 5 Scatters, which means you have 10, 15, or 20 Spins, respectively.

In Free Spins, you will also have Moving Wilds, which is a fancy name for Wilds that walk across the board during free spins. No matter which option you get and however many spins you spin, you will get 2,3 or 4 Wilds that move across the board during the round.

Risk Game

Risk games appear in every Endorphina slot, so we weren’t surprised to see Golden Brew offering it as well.

The risk game is a gamble game available on every win. Whenever you win something, you can choose to take the win or gamble for a chance to double the winnings.

Hence, Risk is a card game where you are given a dealer’s card and four face-down cards. Your task is to pick one of the four to see if it’s higher than the dealer’s. If yes, you double the winnings and get to go again (up to 5 times). If not, you forfeit everything.