I've done this on two of my lower level hordies, each time I never got the exp from completing the quest, so beware, it may happen to you as well.

You don't get any XP from this quest, it must be bugged. I just finished it with my 25 warrios, NADA XP.

I have previously said that many drop quests in the game are Blizzards way of forcing people to grind, thus giving them more xp and loot than a kill quest would - as such, often call them 'forced grinds' as opposed to drop quests.

This quest (Chen's Empty Keg) may just be the epitome of the forced grind.

There's no problem with the Thunderhawk Saliva Gland. There are quite a few Greater Cloudscrapers (or whatever they're called) in the Southern Barrens, and the drop rate isn't too bad. The drop rate on the Kodo Liver isn't bad, though Kodo are sparse - that said, you only need one drop.

The first annoying part of the Lightning Glands is that the drop rate from the Stormhides is about 20%. So, you're going to have to kill about 25 of them - and that's if you have average luck. Bad luck, and you could be looking at twice as much. However, the *really* grinding part of this quest is that, as Nixxen mentioned, the Wind Serpents, Hyenas and Stormhides all share spawn points. As far as I can tell, the hyenas are the most likely to spawn at any given point, followed closely by the Stormhides, whilst the Cloudscrapers are a bit rarer than the other two. So you have two options - either run around the Southern Barrens for a while, hoping that you'll just happen to find 25 odd that other people have left alone. Or farm all the mobs in one particular area, and hope that you get a few Stormhide respawns.

To put into context just how much grinding is involved in the second method - I ended up getting 12k exp from the grinding at lv 24. Given I was getting a kill about every 20 seconds (I'd lower it to 30 due to travel time between my start and finish points), that's just about 100 kills and about 50 minutes work. Considering that the quest only rewards 1k, you might not think it's worth it - but I *did* get a lot of good loot out of it, so I shant be poor for a while.

In short, this really is a grind quest - probably not the best quest for raw quest xp, but definitely good for a balance of xp and monetary rewards.

yesterday (10th of June 2008) i completed quest, and got no xp. contacted a GM, he/she told me, its the way it should be.

So after completing the quest you receive :
- 5 * Trogg Ale
- 75 reputation with Orgrimmar

i found a whole lot at 44, 74

The drop rate is very bad for the lightning glands. There are plenty around at around 44, 74 like Tasha mentioned above, but it definitely is frustrating.

You can take the group of Kodos if you happen to come across them,just start killing one off at a time from the front,if you hit the wooly Kodo they will all come after you,so it's best to leave him till last.

I found a small herd of them at 49.4, 50.8(just south and southwest of the farm). Took me about 5 kills to get the horn.

Be careful when attacking a herd of these kodos, I've been the victim of a group that included the level 27 Elite, Brontus. It may be his presence, but I've found that attacking any one kodo in the group aggros the entire herd. I ended up getting my liver from Lakota'Mani instead.

Has this NPC Brewmaster Drohn been removed?I dont see him in ratchet.mebok mizzyrix is were he should be i belive.I checked first with my 80 toon and another level 24.Is this a brewfest quest?

This quest is a god send as it saved me a long grind or a lot of cash to buy runecloth. Nice reputation with Orgrimmar. For anyone else trying to get their rep up with the major cities check this out - http://www.wowwiki.com/Repeatable_reputation_quest http://www.wowwiki.com/Repeatable_reputation_quest

A little tip for speeding it up. Set your hearthstone to Ratchet and fly to Brackenwall Village and mount upto the Barrens and go farm the gland and saliva in south Barrens. You will find lots of Stormhides on the left close to the mountains as you enter the Barrens and if you cross the path you will find the Thunderhawks. When your fly/hearth back to Ratchet head back to Barrens and take a left and follow the cliffs down and you will find the kodo's there, once you get the Kodo Liver run back to Ratchet to hand in. Just keep repeating. I had to do it nearly 300 times

Good luck :)

Now who would ever need a liver to make brew...

To all the people wondering why you don't get XP for turning it in....you should have read the quest details. It tells you at the bottom what rewards you get for doing the quest....it doesn't say XP so you don't get any. All you get is 5 Trogg Ale. And of course the Rep points, but no XP. Just wanted to clarify.

This quest did NOT count for my Loremaster of Kalimdor achievement, the poster above probably just messed things up thinking it was the original quest (Not this one as it is a follow up)

Funny that no one has mentioned it - But this quest actually makes ""Ambassador"" obtainable at level 11.
Wicked!

i was wandering why the q allways disappeared from my log :D

Yup can confirm today (04/03/11) that I ticketed this quest and also The Harvester quest, which drops from the rare silithid spawn, and was told to abandon both quests as they would be impossible to finish. Wasn't told if they were going to correct it however but probably going to happen eventually.

I talked to a GM today. The Quest isn't possible anymore. The GM wasn't able to tell me if this quest is going to be fixed or going to be deleted. (Patch 4.0.6)

Still obtainable still uncompletable....i flew around for 30 mins tryin to figure out what to kill b4 coming here -.-

Before Cata, there was a series of three quests, all with the same name, but with different quest numbers:

https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=819"">(Quest #819) (#819)
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=821"">(Quest #821) (#821)
https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=822"">(Quest #822) (#822) (The quest on this page.)

The first one was triggered by the player finding a container (?object=3238"">(Object #3238)), looting it for the quest item (https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4926"">(Item #4926)), and getting the quest from that. Before Cata, the empty kegs were scattered throughout the Barrens (see the https://vanillawowdb.com/?object=3238 old page for the container), but they were removed from the game, making it impossible to pick up the quest. The second quest isn't offered, either. Unfortunately, the third is still offered in Ratchet (N. Barrens), but other changes made it impossible to complete. (The Stormhides (https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=3238 old page) (needed for the lightning glands) and the https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4897"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_misc_organ_06.gif)"">Thunderhawk Saliva Glands were removed from the game.) The quest is automatically abandoned silently if you enter Southern Barrens. (That's where you would have to go for everything but the https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4896"" class=""qundefined icontiny"" style=""background-image: url(images/icons/tiny/inv_misc_organ_04.gif)"">Kodo Liver.) Also, the Kodo liver is deleted from your inventory if you already collected one. Nothing changes if you enter zones other than S. Barrens, though.

Some lore: Chen, who lost the keg, is ?npc=36912"">(NPC #36912) (http://www.wowpedia.org/Chen_Stormstout Wowpedia page), the brewmaster pandaren in the Mists cinematic. He was established as a character in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, but hadn't actually appeared in WoW until MoP.