In the title compound, C21H24BrNO4, the dihedral angle between the heterocyclic ring and the pendant aromatic ring is 80.20 (13)°. The hexahydroquinone [i.e. the one with the C=O group] ring adopts a sofa conformation. An intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond generates an S(6) ring motif. The ethyl group is disordered over two sets of sites with a refined site occupancy ratio of 0.633 (10):0.366 (10). In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O inter-actions, forming chains parallel to [101]. There are no significant C-H⋯π or π-π inter-actions in the crystal structure.