1
Prepare monastery board
Place the monastery board summer side (without snow) facing up
2
Position schnapps tokens
Place schnapps tokens in three slots on the monastery board with schnapps side facing down
3
Assemble moon marker
Construct the moon (round marker) and place it above the first space on the round track at the top of the monastery board
4
Set aside bar customers
Take 3 bar customers per player and place them near the monastery board, returning remaining bar customers to the box
5
Remove bard cards
Remove 16 tavern cards with the white die symbol (bards) as they are used in Module 3
6
Sort tavern cards
Separate remaining tavern cards into stacks by type (innkeeper's assistants, dishwashers, waitresses, tables, brewers) and arrange by ascending taler cost
7
Prepare guest cards
Remove 10 guest cards with white die symbols, set aside 8 guests costing 3 beer face-up, shuffle remaining guests face-down to the left
8
Display guest cards
Draw 4 cards from the guest deck and place them face-up in a row to the right of the 3-beer guests
9
Position aristocrat cards
Place the aristocrat deck face-up to the right of other guest cards
10
Distribute tavern boards
Each player takes a tavern board and 10 equipment tokens (tables, waitress, cash register, monk, dishwasher, safe, innkeeper, barrel, brewer, beer storage)
11
Place equipment tokens
Position tokens in corresponding areas with taler costs visible in upper left corners
12
Set innkeeper token
Place innkeeper token with victory points side down, small signature token face-down
13
Place resource markers
Each player places yellow safe marker and brown beer storage marker on space 0 of their respective tracks
14
Distribute beer coasters
Each player takes a beer coaster and places it in front of them
15
Distribute white dice
Each player receives 4 white dice placed on their beer coaster
16
Prepare colored dice
Place dice matching player colors in a common supply accessible to all
17
Build starting deck
Each player assembles a starting deck with 7 regular cards (matching their color), 1 waitress, 1 table, and 1 brewer from common supply
18
Shuffle starting deck
Players shuffle their starting decks and place them face-down next to their tavern boards
19
Place monastery markers
Each player takes a monastery marker of their color and places it on space 0 of the monastery track
20
Determine first player
The person who most recently visited a drinking establishment becomes first player and receives the beer mug marker
21
Return unused components
Return all remaining components to the box as they are not needed for the base game
