Barrel ageing in Breww

Barrel ageing in Breww can be handled by creating 'Barrel' vessels in the Production section. This setup gives you full flexibility to manage, transfer, blend, and package barrel-aged beer.

Create your barrel store

To organise your barrels, we recommend setting up a dedicated **vessel group **(e.g. "Barrel Store"). This is covered in more detail in our [Vessel groups](/docs/vessel-groups/ guide.

Create a 'barrel' vessel

Once your vessel group is set up, you can create individual barrels as vessels:

• Follow our vessel creation guide here.
• Set the Vessel type to Barrel.
• Assign the vessel to your "Barrel Store" group.
• Tick Show on production dashboard if you'd like these barrels visible in your main production view.

Transfers, blends & packaging

With your barrels set up, you can:

• Transfer beer into barrels for ageing.

• Transfer between barrels or vessels as needed.

• Blend multiple batches in a barrel.

• Use the Derived in vessel feature if the final aged product is a new beer (e.g. a blend or barrel-aged variant). This allows you to convert the contents of a vessel into a new derived in vessel beer which can then be packaged and sold.

  You can learn more about the derived in vessel process in our Alias, derived & guest beers guide.