Do you dream of your beer winning awards at the prestigious World Beer Cup or standing out at a local competition? To brew the next award-winning beer, having top-tier quality control standards in place is essential. Professional brewing software plays a crucial role in managing and monitoring every step of your brewery’s production process, turning good beer into great beer.
Why Quality Control Matters in Brewing
Handling quality control in a brewery can be challenging, but with the right analytics and monitoring tools, like Beer30, you can seamlessly track every detail. From fermentation to packaging, professional brewing software ensures that all aspects of production meet your quality standards.
Beer30: A Professional Brewing Software Solution
For Beer30 users, managing the entire brewing process is effortless. This advanced professional brewing software allows you to monitor everything in one place: fermentation data, carbonation levels, triangle testing, yeast genealogy, and more. With Beer30, you also gain complete control over who can approve each production step, ensuring accountability and accuracy.
Moreover, Beer30 offers full traceability, making product recalls a simple process if an issue arises. Brewing software like Beer30 allows you to maintain a high level of quality assurance and confidently bring award-worthy beer to market.
To learn more about setting up quality control tests in Beer30, watch this video from The Rockstar Brewer Steve “Hendo” Henderson.
Fermentation Tracking: A Symphony of Precision:
Fermentation is the heartbeat of brewing, where sugars transform into alcohol, and flavors begin to take shape. Beer30's fermentation tracking feature allows brewers to monitor this critical process with unparalleled precision. Real-time data on temperature, yeast activity, and gravity provides invaluable insights, enabling brewers to optimize fermentation conditions, ensure consistency across batches, and ultimately produce beers with balanced flavors and aromas.
Integrations with brands like Fermecraft, PLAATO, Precision Fermentation, and Fermecraft let Beer30 users get the most up-to-date fermentation information presented in an easily digestible way. Our professional brewing software lets users see exactly what went wrong or what went right with a brew.
Yeast Genealogy: Unraveling the Flavor Tapestry:
Yeast plays a pivotal role in shaping a beer's flavor profile, and Beer30's yeast genealogy feature offers brewers a powerful tool for understanding and managing this crucial ingredient.
With this tool, brewery workers can record the results of yeast analysis. More importantly, they can add as many additional fields as they want to track with custom fields like cell counts, generations, and viability as it is brought in or harvested from a tank.
Our professional brewery software also generates yeast genealogy trees that are filterable and searchable by brand, batch, dates, and yeast strain.
The branches of these trees include the chapters in your yeast’s story. For example, you can log stalled fermentations that require 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.
We understand that many brewers like to mix and match different strains in beers so Beer30 lets brewers do yeast substitutions and add in different variations from different brinks or pitches while knocking out a beer.
Release Checkpoints
Imagine you’ve finished brewing your beer, and everything seems good to go and ready to package. The new rookie brewer decides everything looks good and starts packaging your beer. The only problem is that the carbonation levels are too high. Now you have a whole batch of beer that explodes when customers open it and a huge mess on your hands…literally.
With release checkpoints on Beer30, you can decide who can move things forward and who cannot. This way, you can only give decision-making power to experienced team members.
With Beer30's professional brewing software, you can set checkpoints before fermenting, moving a beer to a bright beer tank, or storing it in a bright beer tank before packaging. You can also elect to make certain information mandatory before moving forward. This will force users to check various quality control aspects, like ABV, CO2 Carb, and more.
This also allows you to keep your team accountable in case something does go wrong. You’ll know who was responsible for moving forward with each step. To learn more about release checkpoints in Beer30, watch this video from The Rockstar Brewer Steve “Hendo” Henderson.
Carb Data Management: Mastering the Fizz:
The right level of carbonation is a defining factor in the sensory experience of beer. Beer30 simplifies carb data management by providing a centralized platform for tracking and analyzing carbonation levels throughout the brewing process. By fine-tuning carbonation to meet specific style guidelines, brewers can create beers with the desired mouthfeel, effervescence, and overall sensory appeal.
Triangle Testing: Refining the Art of Sensory Evaluation:
Even with all the tests in the world, if a beer tastes bad, it won’t work. That’s where triangle testing comes in.
Sensory evaluation is a vital piece of quality control in brewing, and Beer30 takes it to the next level with triangle testing. This method involves presenting a taster with three samples—two identical and one different—and challenging them to identify the odd one out. Beer30 facilitates the organization and documentation of triangle tests.
This way, you and your team can detect subtle variations and ensure that each batch of beer aligns with the intended flavor profile.
True Traceability: Pro Brewing Software with Batch Tracking
Okay so despite all of your checkpoints and data, you may still run into the nightmare scenario – a recall. It's a headache, but with Beer30's traceability, you've got a secret weapon. This tool doesn't just keep tabs on your brews; it practically gives you a GPS for every batch.
If the unfortunate happens, Beer30's brewery tracking software lets you play detective in record time. The Sales Traceability Module gives you the power to track all the finer details of actual batch numbers, as your warehouse team loads orders onto a truck.
This will help keep track of product locations in the event of a product recall.
If you’re not properly tracking these batch numbers, the most that you know is that a particular brand went to a location, but you would need to reach out to each account to see if they have that actual batch number. By having the team assign batch numbers to each order as it’s loaded, you will be able to assess immediately the extent of damage in case of a product recall.
If you’re not using professional brewing software, you can still track these batch numbers on a spreadsheet, or even hand-write them onto the official printout copy! But using our Beer30 Sales Traceability module tells you exactly which raw materials were used for each batch - and exactly which location that batch went to - all at the click of a button.
Ensure Quality Control At Your Brewery
As you can see, with Beer30 award-winning beer is just around the corner. If you’re interested in learning more about Beer30 and how it can help manage quality control, please reach out and set up a demo.
Still want to learn more? Check out these case studies from some of our current Beer30 customers or explore our bundles and pricing.
