Beer Collection 40 Lines Slot Review
Pale bubbles drift up a bright green backdrop, wheat sheaves cross over the title, and a thick wooden frame with gold corners holds the festival together. That’s the world of Beer Collection 40 Lines, a Spinomenal take on Oktoberfest, and the surprising part is what sits at the centre of it: a game with no bonus round at all, built instead around one unusual rule where a run of wilds pays nothing unless a scatter lands behind it.
It runs on a 5×4 grid with 40 fixed paylines at 96.3% RTP, and every coin of its potential sits in that wild-and-scatter pairing. Strip nothing away; the festival dressing and the one rule underneath it are the whole game, and the question is whether that’s enough to keep a session interesting.
Spinomenal have poured this theme before, in Bavarian Riches and Bavarian Riches 3. This one is the simpler pour: a festival slot with one sharp idea and nothing on top.
Symbols and Pays
All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each line counts. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, and the game is locked to its 40 lines; there’s no adjusting them down.
The paytable is short and steep. The Beer Mug leads the regular symbols, and the drop-off below it is sharp:
- Beer Mug – 100x, 250x, 625x and 2,000x the total bet for three, four, five and six of a kind Green Hat – 50x, 100x, 500x and 1,000x the total bet for three to six Pretzel – 50x, 100x, 500x and 1,000x the total bet, level with the Green Hat A – 25x, 50x, 175x and 350x the total bet for three to six K – 25x, 50x, 175x and 350x the total bet, matching the A Q – 15x, 25x, 75x and 250x the total bet for three to six
Those are multiples of the total bet, not the line bet, which makes the top of the ladder worth real attention. Six Beer Mugs at 2,000x the stake is a figure most classic fruit slots don’t offer on any symbol. The bottom of the ladder is modest by comparison, and three Qs at 15x won’t move a session much.
A 5×4 grid with 40 lines gives stacked reels room to fill all six positions on a payline, and the paytable is built to reward exactly that. The jump from five to six is where the money lives:
- Beer Mug – climbs from 625x to 2,000x Green Hat and Pretzel – double from 500x to 1,000x A and K – double from 175x to 350x Q – leaps from 75x to 250x
There are six symbols on the reel strip but only four pay tiers, because the Green Hat and Pretzel share one and the A and K share another. It’s a compact ladder, and everything below the top two tiers is largely there to keep the balance ticking between the big hits.
The Wild and Scatter Chase
With no bonus round of any kind, the wild-and-scatter relationship is the game. It works in a way few slots attempt: a run of three to five wilds only pays when a scatter follows it. On its own, a line of wilds is worth nothing.
That single rule turns every stacked wild reel into a held breath. The scatter has to land behind it for the money to arrive, and the scatter pays on any position, multiplied by the total bet rather than the line bet. Any scatter winnings are then added to whatever payline wins the same round produced.
The two special symbols carry their own ladder, and the wild’s is the richest in the game:
- Wild – 250x, 750x, 2,500x and 7,500x the total bet for three to six Scatter – 5x, 25x, 625x and 1,250x the total bet for three to six
Because the wild substitutes for every symbol except the scatter, it also completes the regular pays: a reel of wilds alongside two Beer Mugs counts as the top line. The wild is therefore doing two jobs at once, filling lines and chasing its own 7,500x ceiling, and that ceiling is the richest pay on offer anywhere in the game.
The scatter’s ladder is back-loaded. Three of them pay just 5x the total bet, but the step from four to five jumps from 25x to 625x, and six pays 1,250x. A late scatter isn’t small change, and it doesn’t need a payline to land it.
So the shape of a good round runs like this: wilds stack on the left reels, the wild run itself waits on a scatter behind it, any regular lines the wilds have completed pay as normal, and a scatter anywhere adds its own prize on top. When all of that lands together, six wilds with the scatter in place is worth 7,500x the total bet.
There’s a family resemblance to the Fruits On Ice Collection line, which we covered in 2026 running the same wild-plus-scatter economy on frozen fruit. This one applies the idea to a warmer theme, and here the wild run itself is the prize rather than something waiting on the scatter to finish it.
Controls and Play Options
Outside the two special symbols, the game keeps its control set plain:
- Bet is set per line, with the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ buttons, and locked during free games Autoplay – runs continuous spins at the chosen bet, configurable by number of spins, and pausable mid-run Turbo Mode – toggled by the rabbit button on desktop or through the settings menu on mobile, and shortens each round to the minimum
Help and settings disable during a spin, and every win in a round displays in the win field. That’s the full toolkit; there’s nothing else behind the menu.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.8/10
Every spin here asks the same quiet question: have the wilds stacked, and is there a scatter behind them? That chase is the one reason to pull up a stool at this beer hall, and the 7,500x prize waiting at the end of it is a genuinely big figure for a game with no bonus round.
The strength is that the two specials work together rather than in isolation. The wild fills regular lines while it builds its own run, the scatter pays anywhere and lands on top of line wins, so a single good round can pay three ways at once. The weakness is everything around them: no free spins, nothing to unlock, and a bottom half of the paytable that barely registers, so the game stands on three symbols and one idea.
It’s a good match for anyone who likes a stacked-reel chase with a real prize at the end and doesn’t miss free spins. Anyone who plays for layered features will find Spinomenal’s fuller games more to their taste. For a festival slot built on one idea, it’s a decent half-litre: short, honest, and with a proper kick at the bottom of the glass.
Beer Collection 40 Lines FAQs
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What is the RTP of Beer Collection 40 Lines?
Beer Collection 40 Lines runs at 96.3% RTP, comfortably above the typical floor for online slots. -
How many paylines does Beer Collection 40 Lines have?
The game is set to 40 fixed paylines. You can’t reduce or increase the number of lines in play. -
What is the grid size of Beer Collection 40 Lines?
Beer Collection 40 Lines uses a 5×4 grid, giving stacked reels room to land six-of-a-kind combinations across its 40 lines. -
When is Beer Collection 40 Lines released?
Beer Collection 40 Lines’ release date is 6 September 2021. -
Who makes Beer Collection 40 Lines?
Beer Collection 40 Lines is made by Spinomenal. -
Does Beer Collection 40 Lines have free spins or a bonus round?
No. The game has no free spins round and no bonus feature of any kind; all wins come from the paytable, the wild and the scatter. -
How does the wild symbol work in Beer Collection 40 Lines?
The wild substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. Unusually, a run of three to five wilds only pays when a scatter symbol follows it on the reels. -
What is the top paying symbol in Beer Collection 40 Lines?
The wild is the richest symbol, paying up to 7,500x the total bet for six of a kind with a scatter behind them. The Beer Mug is the best of the regular symbols at up to 2,000x.


