Second Favor: That’s The Spirit

Hike up past the snow line in a southeasterly direction from the succubus’ cave, utilizing the rocky path to ensure you don’t slip and kill yourself (should you venture into the steep slopes of this part of Ard Skellig). At the top of the mountain peak is a flat icy ground, where ghouls are prowling.

This was the location of the distillery storage, but this has long since collapsed and blown away, leaving only a few corpses which attracted the ghouls. Travel down the steep slope to the south towards a rickety wooden bridge and platform up into a tall cave underneath the ruins. These are the ruins you’re looking for.

The cave is currently home to a lumbering cyclops. Not for long. Once it has been cut down to size, use your Witcher Senses, and inspect the premises:

• The huge boiling vats are intact, though tarnished.
• The wooden scaffold has a ladder to climb, and a platform where you can find some mash.
• A small raised cabin has some distilling recipes on a bed. On an adjacent bed is an open log book. Gather and read both of them.

Now step over to the distilling machine, examine it closely, and look for a metal vat to add your mash to. Once added (from your Quest menu) it must be boiled. Use Igni a number of times to light the fireplace and rapidly heat the base of the vats. When you mention the vats are hot enough, and must be cooled down, move to the levers on the side of the brewing machinery. Remember the instructions you read—pull the right lever first, then the left, opening a series of valves that cool the vats down with water, and complete the brewing process. Gather the Skellige spirit from the barrel and leave, watching for encroaching ghouls as you go.