Delete or obsolete a recipe

In Breww, you can remove recipes you no longer need in two ways: by deleting them or by marking them as obsolete. Which option is available depends on whether the recipe has already been used on a batch.

Deleting a recipe

A recipe can only be deleted if it has never been used on a batch (planned, in-progress, or complete). This is to protect the audit trail - once a batch has been brewed against a recipe version, that history needs to remain in your account.

To delete a recipe:

1. Head to Production -> View -> Recipes and click the recipe you want to remove.

2. On the recipe page, open the Actions menu in the page header.

3. Click Delete recipe.

   If the Delete recipe option is not visible, the recipe has already been used on at least one batch. In this case, mark it as obsolete instead (see below).

Marking a recipe as obsolete

If a recipe has been used on a batch and can no longer be deleted, you can mark it as obsolete. Obsoleting a recipe keeps the historical record intact for any batches that used it, but hides the recipe from the recipes dashboard by default and indicates that it shouldn't be used for new batches.

To obsolete a recipe:

1. Head to Production -> View -> Recipes and click the recipe.

2. Open the Edit menu in the page header and click Edit basic details.

3. Tick the Obsolete checkbox and save.

   The recipe will then show an Obsolete badge on its detail page (in place of the Active badge) and will be filtered out of the main recipes dashboard.

Viewing or restoring obsolete recipes

By default, the recipes dashboard hides obsolete recipes. To see them again:

1. Head to Production -> View -> Recipes.

2. Toggle Show obsolete in the top-right of the recipes table to Yes.

   To restore an obsolete recipe so it can be used again, click into it from the dashboard, open Edit -> Edit basic details, and untick the Obsolete checkbox.