diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e6e48187f..85401d3bb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -130,29 +130,17 @@ install:
     fi
   - |
     if [ "$libt_branch" = "RC_1_2" ] && [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "osx" ]; then
-      wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/brew/version
-      if ! cmp --quiet "version" "$HOME/travis/brew/version" ; then
-        echo "Cached files are different from server. Downloading new ones."
-        # First delete old files
-        rm -r "$HOME/travis/brew"
-        mkdir "$HOME/travis/brew"
-        cp "version" $HOME/travis/brew
-        cd "$HOME/travis/brew"
-        wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/brew/libtorrent-rasterbar.rb
-        wget https://builds.shiki.hu/travis/brew/f01f8d840b6eaf05df8df811815128ae6e7227977b1cba4825f0a1fb73a4d9f0--libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.6.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
-      fi
-      # Copy custom libtorrent bottle to homebrew's download cache so it can find and install it
-      # Also install our custom libtorrent formula by passing the local path to it
-      # These 2 files are restored from Travis' cache.
-      cp "$HOME/travis/brew/f01f8d840b6eaf05df8df811815128ae6e7227977b1cba4825f0a1fb73a4d9f0--libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.6.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz" "$(brew --cache)/downloads"
-      brew uninstall libtorrent-rasterbar
-      brew install "$HOME/travis/brew/libtorrent-rasterbar.rb"
+      # building libtorrent manually should be faster than using the official bottle
+      # because the bottle will also pull in a lot of updated dependencies and prolong the overall time
+      pushd "$HOME"
+      git clone --single-branch --branch RC_1_2 https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent.git
+      cd libtorrent
+      git checkout tags/v1.2.10
 
-      # NOTE about the bottle name
-      # The part before the "--" characters is a sha256 hash of the string
-      # of the URL homebrew itself would use to download the bottle.
-      # In this case the URL is the following:
-      # http://127.0.0.1/libtorrent-rasterbar-1.2.6.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
+      cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=14 -Ddeprecated-functions=OFF -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="$openssl_root_path" ./
+      make
+      sudo make install
+      popd
     fi
 
 script:
@@ -168,7 +156,8 @@ script:
       mkdir build && cd build
       cmake $cmake_conf ../
     fi
-  - make && make install
+  - make
+  - make install
 
 after_success:
   - if [ "$gui" = "true" ]; then qbt_exe="qbittorrent" ; else qbt_exe="qbittorrent-nox" ; fi