Potion bases

This article is about the potion bases in The Witcher. For the alchemy ingredients used in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, see The Witcher 3 alchemy ingredients.

In The Witcher, Potion bases (or hard liquor) are considered a strong alcohol and are necessary to brew potions of any kind. Only alcohol which can be used as a potion base is included in this list. For other kinds of alcohol found in The Witcher, see Alcoholic beverages.

Strong alcohol is divided up into 3 qualities: standard, high, and top.

Standard bases

Standard quality allows up to 3 ingredients to be used in a single potion

Image	Name	Description	Buy	Sell
	Local pepper vodka	Throat-burning pepper vodka.	20	4
	Nilfgaardian Lemon	A vodka popular in the Nilfgaardian Empire. In the North it is used to toast the defeat of the Black Ones.	20	4
	Redanian Herbal	A red vodka, called "stern" in honor of King Radovid the Stern.	20	4
	Soldier's hooch	A crudely distilled alcoholic beverage distributed to soldiers before battle.	20	4
	Temerian Rye	Drunkards call this rye vodka their daily bread.	20	4

High quality bases

High quality allows up to 4 ingredients to be used in a single potion

Image	Name	Description	Buy	Sell
	Cherry Spirit Cordial	Cherry cordial valued by connoisseurs of strong liqueurs.	30	6
	Dwarven spirit	Mahakaman spirit.	30	6
	Plum Cordial	The specialty of Temerian housewives.	30	6
	Temerian spirit	The favorite beverage of Viziman city guards.	30	6
	Zerrikanian spirit	Spirit often referred to as "dragon blood".	30	6

Top quality bases

Top quality bases allows up to 5 ingredients to be used in a single potion

Image	Name	Description	Buy	Sell
	Alcohest	A very pure distillate with a touch of magic.	50	10
	Azoth	A very pure distillate used in advanced alchemy.	50	10
	Mandrake cordial	Distilled from Mandrake roots.	50	10
	Wormwood spirit	A hallucinogenic vodka.	50	10
	Wyvern blood spirit	Spirit distilled by druids.	50	10
	White Gull	The best potion base, and actually a product of any lower quality base on this page plus some other alchemical ingredients.	n /a	n /a