We found that Pulkit and his team have been very receptive about new ideas and upgrades for the software. We don’t use The 5th Ingredient for accounting. We primarily purchased the application as I wanted better visibility into what our inventory was. It has provided me the ability to look at inventory when I am away from the brewery so that I can better tell my distribution partners what I have available for them to purchase.

It is also giving me the ability to manage the inventory for a tasting room as well. We are able to put in all of our beer recipes into the application as well as our inventory for grain and hops. When we brew now, it will subtract our grain and hops inventory, as based on the recipe from what we have on hand. It also allows us to see what’s in every tank that we currently have. We have a 10 barrel brewhouse, a 20 barrel bright tank, 5-30 barrel fermenters, 2-20 barrel fermenters, and a 10 barrel fermenter.

With so much going on with brewing operations, it’s giving us visibility into what we have in every tank at any point in time. It also allows me to schedule out tasks for my team for the upcoming week. I get notifications via text and email as tasks are completed based on settings that I have provided.

I’ve also given an account to each of my sales team so that they can login and see what we currently have available for distribution sales as well. This has allowed them to be more agile been in the field dealing with accounts and being able to tell them that they can have Brand XYZ. We operated for a year and a half without the software and I wish we had purchased this a lot sooner.