Batches

Adjusting, emptying or wasting the contents of a vessel

There may be scenarios where the volume of a batch in a vessel needs to be adjusted; this can either be an increase in volume or a decrease (not via a racking)…

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,…

Batch sharing links

Do you contract brew for other breweries?

Batch tracing and ingredient recalls

We take ingredient and beer batch traceability seriously in Breww and as such, we offer two useful tools for tracing where any raw materials may have been used…

Batch utility/other costs

Breww allows the inclusion of utility and other general costs such as water, electricity and 3rd party packaging fees against a batch. Rather than needing to c…

Blending beer/drinks

To create a blended beer in Breww, you’ll want to set it up like any other new beer. Go to Production -> View -> Beers -> New beer, then fill in the details fo…

Changing or substituting ingredients on a batch

There are two ways to substitute ingredients in Breww, depending on how often the substitution may occur and the situation you find yourself in. One method giv…

Contract/collaboration brewing

Breww has dedicated tools for managing when another company produces batches for you or for when you produce batches for another company. There are five option…

Destroy, delete or waste a batch

There are a few different scenarios where you may need to remove or write-off a batch in Breww, and the right approach depends on how far through the brewing p…

How do I undo or correct a mistake made on a batch?

If you've made an error related to a batch, for example:

How to create and set your own vessel status icons

Vessel status icons allow you to have a quick and efficient visual prompt for your team when they view the production dashboard. These visuals can represent an…

How to create a planned batch in production

You can start a batch in Breww by selecting Actions->New batch or by selecting the New batch button on the production page under the Brewing systems, vessels a…

How to plan which vessels will be used on a beer batch

When entering a beer batch into Breww, you can choose which vessels (fermenters, brite tanks, etc) the batch should use.

How to transfer a single turn batch into multiple fermenters

If you are brewing a single-turn batch, but the capacity of this batch is greater than your fermentation vessel capacity, and you, therefore, would like to spl…

Ingredient batch cost allocation

When adding stock items to an ingredient batch, such as a yeast batch, you are able to choose between two cost allocation methods. To help you choose which is …

'Liquoring back' in vessel

If liquoring back in vessel (adding water to adjust volume and ABV) is part of your production process, you could choose to have this reflected in the drink's …

Logging your fermentation readings in the Analysis tab

Once you have brewed a batch, you can log your fermentation readings. You can log these readings in the Analysis tab on a batch. If you have selected Copy read…

Moving vessels between sites

If you have multiple sites set up in Breww, you may occasionally need to move bulk beer or ingredient batches that are still in a vessel between them. Breww al…

Multi-turn batches

Breww supports multi-turn batches, allowing you to specify how many times you need to brew (each brew being a "turn") in order to reach your required in-vessel…

Scaling ingredients on batches (with and without multi-turn)

When making a recipe and adding ingredients, you need to enter the full amount to use in total on the recipe (for the recipe's batch size). There is no need to…

Splitting batches

There may be occasions where you need to split a proportion of a batch away from the original to create a new separate batch.

Transfer approvals

Breww supports transfer approvals to help you maintain quality control when moving batches between vessels. Transfer approvals allow you to record measurements…

Transfers from brewing systems

Once you have completed the brewing stages of your brew sheet (Brew sheets) and the batch is ready to transfer, you will be able to transfer the batch, either …

Vessel groups

Breww has three pre-defined vessel groups: Primary, Secondary and Pilot. Your individual vessels can then be created within these groups, e.g., fermenters, bri…

Vessel transfers

Once a batch has been transferred to a primary vessel from your brewing system, you can transfer in and out of your vessels as often as you need, and each tran…