Brew Solves

Appearance
Brew has frizzy, khaki-colored hair that pokes out at different angles and is long enough to cover his neck. He has a very pale complexion and has dark bags underneath his eyes. When frazzled late at night, his hair is a discombobulated mess, he has raccoon circles around his eyes that dwarf his usual purple bags, his jacket will be off, & his shirt will be covered with coffee stains. He weighs 180lb/84.6kg.

He is seen wearing an ecru-colored suit, referred to as "tan" by Braydon, & is fairly close to his own flesh in color & hue, with a white shirt underneath, with a dark brown tie (was once blue) wrapped around the collar. He wears brown pants that are cuffed at the angle and wears dark brown leather shoes. He wears bright pink socks. Brew has a hunched posture and is usually seen carrying around a mug of coffee. According to Bean's dream, Brew wears red boxer shorts. Underneath his sleeve on his right arm, Brew has a most unusual wrist watch. It's hard to say if it's made of a nearly invisible material or if it's actually embedded under his skin.

There's an old photo of brew from his college days where his hair was blonde, as well as a video from that time where his hair is strawberry blonde. A younger, smiling brew in a Hillside Research Center lab coat holding cup ramen, posing in front of the lab where he used to work. We don't know how long ago this was, but he looked less stressed. A baby picture of Brew with khaki hair suggests that the blonde & orange hair colors of his post graduate years were dyed.

Future Brew sports a moustache, bowtie, button-down shirt, & fancier heeled dress shoes, but overall same color scheme to regular Brew. He carries a red coffee mug with him. He has a robot named Avochilldo.

Brew's age has not been officially addressed, but can be determined by the fact that he owns a lot of early to mid 90s teen clothing that still fits him as an adult, meaning he would have been at least in high school back then. He also has a habit of using 90s slang every time he dawns a pair of shades. Most all of the technology in his house that isn't Grill's or Chill's is from the 90s, & he frequently references TV shows, movies, dances, games, & songs from the 90s. His hair is also graying, given that he had yellow-to-orange hair in his youth. His claim of not sleeping properly since 1997 suggests he was already working for HRS or involved in the High Counsel at that time.

Personality
Brew is a nice, socially awkward, sleep-deprived, overcaffeinated solitudinarian & insomniac. Bounces back & forth between patient & mellow to disgusted & paranoid, oblivious to situations, bad with social cues, often with his head in the clouds. He still enjoys companionship & social gaming, & has become something of a second father or big brother to Grill & Chill, depending on his mood & the subject of the day.

Brew is very forgetful sometimes, but he will never forget Bean's birthday. He is a slob & his house is littered with filthy coffee cups. Brew's love of telling strange stories can sidetrack him from a task, like the time he made Chill stand in the kitchen holding a raw chicken when he was supposed to be teaching him how to cook it, but decided to tell him about people who tried cooking chickens by repeatedly slapping them. He is somewhat inept with modern technology & still has old tech from the 90s around the house. When presented with inaccurate information or a question, he will immediately go into Vsauce Mode, often accompanied by theme music that at least Grill can hear. He admits to not being a very hygienic person. Despite his love of solving mysteries & expounding trivia, he claims he barely remember where he leaves his coffee after he makes it. Brew sometimes has PTSD-like episodes where he is haunted by undesirable knowledge he has acquired about everyday things.

Brew is very mysterious & quirky, possibly the result of intense prolonged sleep deprivation. He claims to have not slept properly since 1997, waking up from nightmares of Eldritch forms taunting him, & gets 4 hours of sleep if he's lucky enough to sleep at all. Chill thinks he's emotionally flat, despite how easily he is to annoy. He has a wide range of unusual phobias, but claims not to be a germaphobe. He gets anxious if he doesn't check his email every 15 minutes. He flip-flops on whether or not he wants sleep or if he's desperate to avoid it. He has Chronic Insomnia & supposedly hasn't slept in years. On somedays he will throw himself over his bed sideways, & on others he'll be screaming at Howard that he's afraid to sleep or dream. Grill & Chill gave him an intervention to try to get him to cut down on his caffeine intake or at least clean up his coffee cups, as his caffeine tolerance is so high that he goes for another cup upon finishing. He refers to his closet as his "Panic Room," which is full of identical suits, filthy coffee mugs, his lab coat, & the Classic Brew Grill & Chill made him throw out like a shed skin.

Brew seems to be an old-tech kind of guy on the surface. He has an "If it ain't broke, don't replace it" mentality to electronics & even keeps physical copies of his notes instead of digitizing them, & his CRT computer runs a version of Windows that predates most households having access to the internet. Below the surface, he is familiar with greenscreens, security cameras, lockdown shields for the house, & can build simple little robots. It is unknown if he acquired Howard from HRC or built him.

Overcoming Fears
Future Brew claims to go to the beach all the time, but quirky as ever, goes in full suit & won't take off his shoes.

By late 2021, Brew started leaving the house more often, shopping, eating at a diner, went on a boat, & even got on a train & left The Hill for Christmas, possibly to see the parents Howard casually mentioned he had a strained trelationship with.

90s Paraphernalia
He owns a 16 volume Tardigrade Care Guide set, a book about fancy words, a book on Coffee vs Tea, & rather large hardback Windows 95 manual, & either owns or is at least familiar with the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual.

His desktop computer is a 90s CRT style. He has a copy of Dance Dance Revolution & a dance pad, a Nintendo 64 with controller, a SONY TPS-L2 cassette Walkman, Nintendo GameBoy, & a box of laserdiscs.

He owns several early-to-mid 90s teen fashion items that fit him perfectly. He told Chill he could borrow his checkerboard Vans & suspenders, which were in vogue in the 90s.

Before Howard, Brew owned a white coffee machine named Felicity. Lance adopted Felicity & accidently used her to burn down Chill & Grill's house. His last use of coffee machine Felicity was the same episode where he got an animation upgrade; "This Is What Happens to Your Eyes When You Watch Youtube in Bed."

Relationships
Bean: Brew's giant lab-grown Tardigrade. He enjoys having Bean around and he takes care of Bean very well. Brew says he doesn't really think of Bean as his child or his pet, & sometimes he feels like Bean is the one taking care of him. Despite the amount of time Bean spends in a tank, Brew bathes him.

Howard (AKA Potts) Brew's coffee maker. Brew often calls Howard "Potts", and mistakes Howard's name for it. Howard constantly reminds him that his name is Howard and even went as far as putting a password on himself until Brew says his name properly.

Grill: Introduced to Brew via Spill. When Grill's house burned down due to a fiery mishap from Brew's old coffee maker (found by Lance) breaking down, he and Chill were forced to move to Brew's place, & they do not pay rent. He refers to them as a "Two For One Deal Situation." Brew likes having the two of them around, as it really livens up the place, & keeps a picture of the three of them in his pocket. Grill & Brew listen to each other do their Youtube shows & have a habit of constantly interrupting each other, making a friendly game of teasing one another like siblings. There are also days where Brew is more serious & dad-like. He enjoys creeping Grill out with pranks, gross pictures, & facts, like diseased organs, holes, the Rat King he keeps in a drawer, comparing the cream cheese on the bagel he's eating to the yolk of Balut or cream to a diseased eyeball, using a fake hand to trick Grill into thinking he was cooking his hand on the stove, or telling him the only way to prevent diseases from ticks was to chug vinegar & think about bald people. Grill in turn heckles Brew during his videos, slamming his dad jokes & puns, & setting random fires around the house. Grill & Brew were bonding over marine biology one day & not arguing; It made them both feel awkward & uncomfortable, but Chill was loving it.

Chill: Brew is sometimes more parental with Chill than he is with Grill, due to Chill's innocent naïveté & thirst for knowledge, & Brew does sometimes refer to them collectively as "my boys," so it's fitting that Chill gave him a Best Dad mug as a secret Santa gift. He occasionally shields Chill from the mind games he puts Grill through, like giving him trigger warnings for holes or not having the heart to tell him that lonely male mosquitoes only live for a week, only to turn around the next day & gross him out with ant facts, ruin pillows for him, make him leery of toothpicks & grapefruit juice, messing with Chill's head to convince him that Brew has always worn a hat, or scaring the pants off of him with a Ouija Board. He once edited a drawing Chill made of himself & Grill eating spaghetti & turned them into cannibals. Chill looks at it & says. "Huh... But why are you like this?" As Chill's cooking is unpalatable & he can start a kitchen fore by merely scooping ice cream, he & Grill were temporarily banned from the kitchen. Brew ruined one of Chill's Notflix nights with Grill by scaring them while they were eating popcorn & talking about how popcorn fumes can kill your lungs.

Quiz: Brew's much-needed assistant. They both get along well, and she helps him out in videos by supplying information and things. She kept him motivated during Minecraft with her leadership skills & optimism. He had a dad-like joy when she was doing her first sponsor ad. Brew enjoys having someone around who appreciates at least some of his jokes & puns, even if they have light squabbles over things like Where is Waldo/Wally.

Spill: Brew’s old friend who has known him possibly before he got his masters. With their love for knowledge, mysteries, & puns, they get along as old friends should. They seem to only meet in group events such as campus shenanigans, Discord meetings, & in multiplayer games. She introduced him to Chill & Grill. He always finds new & exciting ways to disappoint her, like when they played Among Us & he chose to trust Chill over her.

Braydon: Brew & Braydon seem to have met in 2016, when Brew was dragged to Hillmark by his friends to help solve a mystery. Brew was playing Good Cop Bad Cop with Grill & his method of interrogating Braydon was to tell him that there was over 100 ways to hide a body so that no one ever finds them again. At some point he seems to have started playing an online game with them called Kitty Cat Sunshine Lands, & then stopped. When his old coffee pot Felicity broke, he would sneak back onto campus for coffee, & this is when the Mad Lads corner him for one of their videos. The Mad Lads got on his bad side by trying to take away his coffee & forcing him to drink tea while filming it. They edited out his swearing & replaced it with with Syncro-Vox of Brayden praising the tea. He sometimes calls Braydon "Brendan."

Lifehack: Brew & Lifehack got off on the wrong foot in Minecraft due to the rumor that Brew was a griefer & a thief, & he thought Brew & Quiz wanted to steal everything he & Jack had worked for. In the end, things were resolved & Brew let Lifehack borrow his account so he & Jack could play at the same time.

Likes

 * Food: Chicken wings, cup ramen, Grill & Chill's spicy bell pepper fettuccini with coffee & coffee YEET cake, cereal.
 * Mocha banana latte cake.
 * 90s paraphernalia.
 * Hot black coffee.
 * Coffee-infused food.
 * Unsolved mysteries.
 * Doing dramatic narration with fancy voices & accents. Does a pretty good Elvis impression.
 * Composers: Tchaikovsky, Arnold Schoenberg.
 * Music genres: Classical, Ska.
 * Making puns, wordplay, & Dad Jokes.
 * TV: Love is Tigers, Luke Wurm, ReBooot & Sonic the Hedgehog (90s cartoons), Midnight Gospel, Ben 10, School of Sock, historic documentaries, anime.
 * Animals: Tardigrades, Surinam Toads, Velvet Worms (thinks they're adorable), Spiny Lumpsucker.
 * Teasing & pranking his friends.
 * Video games, regardless of how good he is at playing them.
 * Rat Kings (Has one in his desk.)
 * Fruit.
 * Batman, Giovanni Zatara (DC Comics characters).
 * John Carpenter's "The Thing."
 * Illusions & magic.
 * ARGs.

Dislikes & Fears

 * Brew has Agoraphobia, but is taking steps to overcome it.
 * He has repeatedly shown fear of sand & the ocean to the point of if being the longest running gag in the franchise.
 * Drinks: Decaf coffee, milky coffee, iced coffee, tea, soda, YEET, anything cold or uncaffinated.
 * Grossed out by bodily wastes & the anus. Will try to gloss over them in conversation or use similes.
 * Dislikes talking about human reproduction, but not animal. Will tell Bean to cover his ears when discussing it.
 * 5 Minute Craft's video on how to cook buttered salmon & streamed veggies in a coffee maker.
 * Puppets & Muppets.
 * Critters: Giant, flying, swarming, jumping, stinging, or biting insects, giant spider crabs, poisonous snails, goblin sharks.
 * August.
 * Doesn't trust Santa Clause or birds. Thinks the latter is spying on him.
 * Not the biggest fan of parties or Mad Lads.
 * Chill: Doing yoga at 6am, any time he attempts cooking, the time he made a beach in the spare room.
 * Concepts: Being chased by a malicious giant sentient doll, becoming immune to caffeine.
 * When Howard goes into sleep mode or asks for a password.
 * Animals being used as sacrificial weapons.
 * Anyone snooping on the research stored on his old computer.
 * Grill: Setting the house on fire, constantly interrupting while filming, treasure hunting in the house.
 * Crab aggregations, shell shedding.
 * Not much of a Superman fan.
 * Despite his fear of sharks, he doesn't like it when they're killed by humans.
 * Waterworld (1995 movie).
 * When he thinks of Florida, he thinks of alligators.
 * Seems to think the world could do without Facebook.

Coffee
Brew's life seems to revolve around coffee & he is never far away from a coffee machine. In 2020, Howard said he'd exceeded his recommended caffeine intake until 2023, & he once expressed that he thought Grill & Chill would have an intervention for him.

Provisions
Brew's house is absolutely littered with coffee mugs and YEET cans in every room. The fridge is not well stocked and has expired food in it, and Brew once locked a coffee cake inside of a safe inside of said fridge to prevent Grill from stealing it.

There is a BBQ grill apparently kept in the back yard.

Defense and Enigmatic Properties
The house comes equipped with lockdown shields and security cameras in every room. He keeps his writing, editing, and research crew in the basement, and on a few occasions dimensional portals have appeared near Howard. Future Brew said it took him years to secure a new quantum temporal gate (portal), but normal Brew has used a smaller one a couple of times for silly things like coffee.

Space (Rooms & Stuff)
Brew and Grill both have their own offices, while Chill's office space is set up in his and Grill's bedroom. Brew has his own room.

It was unknown if Brew filmed his videos in an office or the kitchen, due to the persistent presence of a coffee maker and not much else to go off of, but Brew revealed that the room has a green screen studio with lighting, cameras, and a projected backdrop. The side opposite the camera is full of boxes of papers. Brew supposedly has a screen video on his office wall that looks like a window that can show him anything or anyone he wants projected, even making Hillside Academy look like it's across the street when his house is underneath it (on the mountain). The other alternative is that it's one of his late night caffeine hallucinations; Grill pointed out that Brew talks to these on more than one occasion. In Brew's video about walking on water, he carries on an entire conversation with an imaginary Chill in the window.

A month before Grill & Chill moved in with him, they kept showing up at Brew's house uninvited, and he has no idea how they kept getting in. Likewise, he has ways of getting into Grill's office without using the door. Lance was also able to break into Grill's office in his and Chill's old house.

Brew, Grill, and Chill have all set the house on fire at some point. Grill is a pyromaniac, Chill can start a kitchen fire just trying to chop an onion, and Brew burned down their virtual house in Minecraft. Lance was responsible for the fire that got them to move in with Brew.

There is a spare room that Chill once filled with sand to make an indoor beach to do yoga in and it is likely where he keeps his stash of yoga mats. It is unknown if this is the cause of Brew's dislike of sand, or if it exacerbates a preexisting dislike of it. Grill had a to-do list in Brew's episode about Viral Venom. On it, he wrote "Move sand?" Brew wrote next to it "If you get more sand, I will destroy you."

Video Games
Like Grill & Chill, Brew plays video games with no discrimination for platform or genre.

Minecraft.


 * Brew burned down the house he shared with Grill & Chill by making a Netherrack fireplace in a house made entirely out of wool & wood, thus making all 3 of them guilty of setting one of their houses on fire at some point, with the other two being responsible for numerous kitchen fires.
 * Tried to punch the door open instead of opening it, which was pointless because he could have just walked around the door, as the walls had burned down.
 * Accidently pushed xXDied-DeathXx into his own lava pit trap.
 * After burning down the house he shared with Grill & Chill, then accidently flooding part of Jack & Lifehack's castle, he referred to himself as a "homewrecker" which Quiz pointed out doesn't mean what he thinks it does.
 * Brew was surprised that Jack managed to build a huge castle in Minecraft without a GameShark.

Other


 * When Brew plays Among Us, he prefers to just do the tasks.
 * He once marathoned "A Link To The Past," so both he & Chill are Zelda fans.
 * He's up to date on the tech of modern consoles, and seems to be familiar with Call of Duty & Metal Gear Solid.
 * When he traded his Santa hat to Howard for his DDR matt, Brew happened to already own a copy of Dance Dance Revolution.
 * Owns an actual VR headset, as opposed to the phone Chill tapes to his face.
 * Has played Raid: Shadow Legends on PC, but not on his phone, which he hasn't updated since 2007. He has mentioned multiple times that he favors the Lizard King.
 * Owns several Nintendo consoles.
 * He keeps a photo of classic Sonic the Hedgehog in his pocket.
 * Has played The Last Of Us, Mech Area, GTA IV, Dragon City.
 * The awkward path of a cargo ship made him think of the cover to Goldeneye 64.
 * Gabumon is his favorite Digimon.
 * Nailed his first Nuzlocke Challenge in Pokemon, but since he didn't record it, no one believed him.

Quotes

 * "Let's get into it."
 * "Wait... Is there coffee in the noodles? This will sustain me."
 * "Oh goodness" (twitter)
 * "A good millennia latter came the Piss Prophets."
 * "If it ain't broke, don't replace it."
 * "What do the French call a really bad Thursday? A tra-jeudi."
 * "These Stage 2 Cicadas become what Entomologists have dubbed Flying Saltshakers of Death, which I hope you agree is metal as all heck."
 * "How about you, as the kids say these days, absolutely destroy that subscribe button by clicking on it with your mouse? Also liking this video would be, again as you kids say, thicc. Haha, dab me bro."
 * "I would give up coffee for at least an hour to get some freshly delivered... Coffee."
 * "When the sting is nill, just stand still. If the sting has stung, get ready to run."
 * "All hail the Lizard King."

Trivia & Speculation

 * Brew has ties to the Hillside High Council. In an episode on Grill Burns' channel he calls them to respond to to what he thinks is a "Euclid level" threat at Grill's house. Also, Bean & Howard may have been obtained from his work with the Council.
 * He is or was a researcher at Hillside Research Center, it is unknown what he did there, or if he was a student or employee at Hillmark Academy, or why he left & became a house hermit. It is implied that he is still doing work research from his house & has important secret files on his old computer.
 * Brew has dressed as L from Death Note & someone from Game of Thrones for Halloween.
 * Grill once made a random response Tweet on his show about being abandoned by his father at a street parade. It had nothing to do with what he was responding to & he sang it, but if he was serious about it, then Brew is his only father figure.
 * In his video about protein shakes, he tries a can of YEET, which caused inhuman screaming & horrid face contortions.
 * Has a website that once sold hoodies, but seems to have fallen into disuse.
 * Owns a yellow hazmat suit, similar to the ones seen on the men chasing Grill.
 * Brew often appears holding food, but is never seen cooking, but it is suggested that he is a capable cook. Grill is the only one in Brew's house shown to have cooking skills, but Brew's daily planner suggests Brew can at least bake pie. He had also banned Grill & Chill from the kitchen for awhile. It's possible that he had food delivered.
 * Learned to crochet during lockdown.
 * Has been cutting his own hair for years.
 * Howard joked about Brew's distant relationship with his family.
 * Given the amount of bugs he is disgusted by, he is surprisingly not at all disgusted by the idea of consuming bugs as food.
 * Runs from light switch to light switch at night to spend the least amount of time in the dark as possible.
 * Either keeps his gold & jewel inside Howard, or knows Howard has a treasure & where he keeps it.
 * Has shown a fondness for dancing, between playing DDR & an early 2000s dance called Krumping, which evolved from a 90s dance called Clowning.
 * Brew seems to have attended & graduated university before Spill was even a freshmen at Hillmark, but a photo from the year he earned his masters suggests she knew him back then.
 * Brew has a photo of Grill, Chill, Spill, Jack, & his legs on his phone with a 2016 date, putting it at the time Spill started attending Hillmark, which in a 2019 OTH episode claimed was "3 years ago." It's 2021 and all of the same students are still attending, and even though they acknowledge time passing by in their own series, it's never acknowledged that anyone has grown older on OTH.
 * His old coffee pot Felicity is identical to the coffee machines in Hillmark.
 * Owns a $20 copy of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus."
 * Relies on NORD VPN, because literally everything he wants to watch on Notflix is not available in Canada.
 * Brew has a Brew Crew in the basement that reportedly research topics, but apparently he & Quiz write the scripts for the Youtube videos.
 * Brew films his sponsorship bits seperately & edits them into his videos. This is shows in Brew's video about haircuts where Chill has cut Brew's hair, then it looks normal, then it goes back to being cut again. It was cut to resemble Atsushi from Bungo Stray Dogs, making it the second time Chill has made Brew look like an anime character, the prior time being on Halloween when Brew woke up looking like L from Death Note.
 * It's noted that he cannot have anything without NordVPN. He strives off VPN. He will not make it in this cold, unforgiving world without NordVPN. All hail VPN.
 * Future Brew believed is its critical to save the environment & plant more trees.