Managing raw material inventory, particularly yeast, is crucial for any brewery aiming to improve efficiency and profitability. Beer30 by The 5th Ingredient is the perfect brewery inventory software, offering robust solutions for tracking and managing yeast—the most variable and essential ingredient in beer production. Additionally, Beer30 features unique yeast genealogy software that helps brewers visualize and manage yeast strains across batches and beers.
While most brewers focus on tracking hops and malt in their inventory, yeast requires more attention due to its variable nature. Yeast isn’t just another ingredient—it’s a living organism that directly impacts the quality and flavor of your beer. With Beer30, you can track every aspect of yeast management, from inventory to performance, making it a critical tool for improving your brewery’s operations.
Tracking the cost of goods like hops, malt, and adjuncts is relatively simple: you buy, use, and deplete. However, yeast adds complexity because it can be reused across multiple batches. How do you accurately calculate the cost of yeast when it continues to impact multiple brews?
With Beer30’s brewery management software, you have the flexibility to:
This customizable approach ensures that your accounting and inventory tracking is as accurate as possible, giving you control over your yeast cost strategy.
The Beer30 Yeast Dashboard shows the details of all yeast inventory that you have available to pitch, harvest and propagate.
Yeast labs use innovative technologies which make their strains stronger and more reliable. However, it still requires more oversight than other ingredients in beer. Yeast can surprise you more than any other ingredient in the brewing process. Sometimes for better, and sometimes for worse!
Beer30 provides a dedicated Yeast Dashboard where brewers can see all available yeast inventory for pitching, harvesting, and propagating. This advanced brewery inventory software ensures that yeast is monitored meticulously, helping to mitigate its unpredictability. Key yeast management features include:
Brewers and staff will be able to add in custom fields and metrics like cell counts, generations, viability as it is brought in or harvested from a tank.
Beer30’s yeast genealogy software takes yeast tracking to the next level by generating genealogy charts for every yeast lot. These charts provide a visual representation of yeast usage across batches, making it easier to follow the lineage of each strain and its impact on different beers. Brewers can use these yeast genealogy trees to:
This yeast genealogy software allows brewers to understand yeast's performance over time, making it easier to improve processes and predict outcomes in future brews.
Custom fields provide a detailed record of yeast’s lifecycle, making it easier to manage propagation and ensure optimal performance across batches. In worst-case scenarios, such as a yeast recall from your supplier, Beer30 makes it simple to backtrack and identify every impacted batch, minimizing potential loss.
Yeast is unlike any other primary beer ingredient because each pitch equates to a new chapter in an often long story in its history. A history that covers multiple beer styles and many months bringing each beer to life.
Beer30 takes this complex story and turns it into a powerful tool for managing yeast. Our software uses genealogy charts to build visual representations as it is automatically tracked through every batch of beer it touches. The entire history of your yeast inventory is searchable and filterable to make the tool even more powerful.
Use Beer30 to generate yeast genealogy trees that are filterable and searchable by brand, batch, dates and yeast strain.
The branches of these trees include the triumphant chapters in your yeast’s story. For example, you can log stalled fermentations that required an additional pitch or any number of anomalies that may occur.
The Beer30 genealogy trees show you how each parent and child node are interconnected for true traceability.
Not all of the yeast a brewer uses comes from a company like White Labs, Lallemand or Wyeast. One brewery will provide it to another. Our software notes the source of intra-brewery pitches and track its performance at your brewery.
We also understand that many brewers like to mix and match different strains in beers! Brewers can do yeast substitutions and add in different variations from different brinks or pitches while knocking out a beer. This also shows up in the genealogy trees!
In Beer30, you can do yeast substitutions dynamically in either Brew or Ferment mode.
Yeast plays arguably the most important role in the production of beer or, more importantly, quality beer. Therefore, it must be regarded and monitored in a significant way. But all too often it isn’t. Its dynamic nature leads brewers and data-management software developers to throw up their hands instead of attempting to track it. This creates a major blind spot that hurts a brewery’s operation.
At Beer30, we understand the challenges of tracking yeast costs and performance. In order to help you save time, increase profits and brew more beer, our team developed the best brewery management software devoted to fermented beverages to help brewers overcome these monotonous challenges.
Beer30 is designed to streamline brewery operations by providing a comprehensive solution for tracking yeast inventory, performance, and history. The yeast genealogy software is a powerful tool for understanding the lifecycle of your yeast, while the brewery inventory software ensures that your entire brewing process—from raw material intake to finished product—is tracked with precision.
Beer30 supports multiple approaches to yeast cost-tracking, ensuring flexibility based on the size and needs of your brewery. Whether you’re tracking simple brewhouse inventory or managing complex yeast strains, Beer30 gives you the tools you need to improve quality, lower costs, and enhance overall efficiency.
Do you want to know more about how we can help you track and manage yeast inventory and utilization at your brewery? We’d love to discuss it with you. Schedule a FREE demo today!
Brandon Hernández is a contributing writer for The 5th Ingredient who provides freelance marketing services to companies in the beer industry. You can reach Brandon via email.
