Craft production shouldn't be held together by a spreadsheet and muscle memory.
Brewery operations span recipe management, batch production, taproom sales, distribution, and compliance reporting that no single off-the-shelf tool covers as a connected system. The result is spreadsheets in the brewhouse, a separate POS in the taproom, and compliance reports assembled before every filing.
Brewery operations data lives in too many places
Recipe management, batch records, taproom sales, distribution, and compliance reporting each have their own system. Nothing talks to anything else without someone in the middle.
These gaps are workable at small scale. As production volume and SKU count grow, the manual work of connecting them grows with it.
Recipe and batch records are maintained in spreadsheets or a standalone brewing software tool that doesn't connect to taproom inventory or distribution. What's on tap and what's in kegs are tracked separately.
Taproom POS data and production data live in different systems. Understanding which beers are moving, what needs to be brewed next, and what's available for distribution requires pulling from both manually.
Distribution tracking is done in a spreadsheet or not tracked at all. Knowing which accounts have which products, when deliveries happened, and what's outstanding is a manual research project.
Compliance reports are assembled by hand before every state and TTB filing. The data exists in multiple places and pulling it together correctly takes time that shouldn't be necessary.
Recipe to taproom to distribution in one system
We connect the batch record to the taproom inventory to the distribution tracker so nothing requires manual reconciliation before a shift change or a filing deadline.
- Recipe management with version control, ingredient cost tracking, and batch scaling so every brew follows a documented process you can hand to a new brewer on day one, and cost-per-barrel is a live number, not an estimate
- Batch records that update your taproom and keg inventory automatically when a run completes, with yield and deviation logged so you know what changed and when
- Taproom and packaged goods inventory that stays current without a separate manual count: tapped out is updated when the keg is kicked, not when someone remembers to edit a spreadsheet
- Distribution tracking with a live view of what's at each account so your sales rep knows before the delivery call, not after
- Compliance and excise tax reports that run from the production record in minutes, so filing week stops being a research project
- Sales analytics that connect taproom performance to production planning so you brew what sells, not what you guessed would sell
The goal is one connected system where what you brew, what you sell, and what you report all trace back to the same record.
Production first. Then sales. Then compliance.
For breweries, the production and inventory record is the foundation. Taproom accuracy, distribution tracking, and compliance reporting all depend on it being right. We build in that order.
- Start with production: recipe records, batch logging, and inventory tracking form the foundation before taproom or distribution data is connected
- Connect taproom and distribution once the production record is reliable: what's on tap, what's in kegs, and what's at accounts all trace back to accurate batch data
- Build compliance reporting last, once the underlying data is clean: excise tax and TTB reports become queries, not manual assembly projects
- Add analytics after the operational system is working: production-to-sales connections that help you plan the next brew cycle based on what actually moved
No big-bang implementation. No single brewery software platform that promises to do everything. One layer at a time, with working software at each step.
One conversation about your batch records is enough to start.
A 30-minute call is enough to map where your recipe data, taproom inventory, and compliance reporting are disconnected. We'll tell you what we'd build and what it would take to close the gap.
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