When you’re working in your brewery, do you have a whiteboard that serves as the means in which you communicate to your team about all the different stuff that’s happening across your tank farm? If your brewery is still using a whiteboard to track production across your tank farm, you might be missing out on better ways to streamline communication and improve efficiency. With brewery software like Beer30, custom tank stages can revolutionize how you communicate with your team—without needing to be physically present.
Did you know that Beer30 features a custom tank stages functionality? This allows you to actually communicate better with your team in a more granular way. And you don’t even need to be in the brewery! Learn more about custom tank stages by reading the blog below, or scroll to the bottom to watch a video!
Key Benefits of Custom Tank Stages in Brewery Software
1. Granular Tracking of Production Stages
With Beer30, brewers can create custom tank stages that provide specific updates on what’s happening in each tank. For instance, if you’re fermenting an Indian Brown Sugar Ale in tank 11, you can set a stage like “Ready for Dry Hop” to alert the team that it’s time for the next step in the brewing process. This eliminates any ambiguity and keeps your team informed at every stage.
2. Real-Time Updates from Anywhere
The ability to manage tanks remotely is a significant benefit of brewery management software. You no longer need to be in the brewery to see the status of a specific tank. Beer30 is mobile-responsive, meaning you can check your tank stages and communicate with your team from anywhere, improving efficiency and workflow.
3. Easy Setup and Customization
Setting up custom tank stages in Beer30 is straightforward. You can create tank stages based on specific parts of the brewing process, such as fermentation, filtration, or cleaning. Simply navigate to the settings under "Tools," choose your desired stage, and assign a color for easy identification. This flexibility allows breweries to tailor the software to their unique processes.
For example, let’s say we’re going to set up a custom tank stage called ready to dry hop, which is related to the ferment module. You’ll just select ferment as the stage type and go ready for dry hop (R 4 D H is the abbreviated name) and select a color – let’s go with green.
Then you’ll add the tank stage and all of a sudden the tank stages have been created! From there what you can do is go back into the dashboard and click on tank 11 with the Indian brown sugar ale. Then you can select a custom stage called ready for dry hop and hit save. You’ll notice that the green color that was configured for ready for dry hop above appears.
In addition, you’ll see there’s a little zero in brackets just after it. What that does is it = tells you the number of days in which that tank the custom stage ready for dry hop has been applied. So for example, in this particular application if you have a tank of beer that’s been marked as ready for dry hop and it’s been like that for 14 days but it still hasn’t been dry hopped, then the head brewer can raise some questions with the team about what’s going on. In easier terms, with custom tank stages you basically eliminate the need for whiteboards or a paper trail in your brewery!
Some brewers have put televisions on the wall in their breweries to show their Beer30 dashboard. Another cool thing is that Beer30 is mobile responsive! So, you don’t even need to be in the brewery to see the custom stages of the tanks that are in your brewery using our brewery software. This makes communicating with your team easier and more efficient.
All-in-One Management Software for Breweries
Could your brewery’s communication efforts use a little improving? Beer30 brewery management software has you covered! Schedule a demo with one of our reps to learn how you can start brewing more and brewing better.
