As we’ve discussed before, managing raw material inventory—such as yeast—is essential for maximizing the efficiency and profitability of any brewery.
When thinking about inventory, most brewers picture stacks of hop boxes in the cold room or grain sacks by the mill. Monitoring these everyday ingredients is crucial, especially when using a powerful brewery software like Beer30. But at Beer30, we go beyond just tracking the basics.
Our team has dedicated significant time to improving how brewers manage beer's most vital and variable ingredient: yeast. Beer30 brewery software enables breweries to track yeast inventory, performance, and viability in a customizable way that suits individual operations, setting it apart from other tools.
Tracking the cost of hops, malt, and adjuncts is straightforward—purchase, use, and adjust inventory until it depletes. However, yeast is a more complex resource to manage since it can be used across multiple batches of beer.
With Beer30, brewers can choose their preferred method for calculating yeast costs. You can either write off the cost upfront, spread it across the batches it’s applied to, or wait until the yeast reaches the end of its productive life. Our brewery software offers the flexibility to manage yeast costs in a way that fits your operations.
We designed Beer30 to be an adaptable brewery management software for breweries of any size. Whether you’re a small craft brewery or a large-scale operation, Beer30’s yeast tracking system is flexible enough to accommodate your specific needs.
With multiple approaches to yeast cost tracking, our brewery software ensures that you have the tools to manage resources in the most efficient way for your business, aligning with your unique accounting systems and operational requirements.
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!
With Beer30 brewing software, brewers do more than keep up with yeast inventory. They can record the results of yeast analysis which includes: cell counts, viability, generation and performance history. More importantly, they can add as many additional fields as they want to track with our custom fields module!
Brewers and staff will be able to add in custom fields and metrics like cell counts, generations, and viability as it is brought in or harvested from a tank.
Using our brewery management software to track yeast inventory by lot also becomes handy in worst-case scenario situations. For instance, if your yeast provider issues a product recall, the backtracking of every batch potentially impacted is quick and easy. Therefore, you can react instantly to nullify the threat and account for 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 is the only brewery software on the market that takes this complex story and turns it into a powerful tool for managing yeast. Our beer 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 software 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 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.
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 brewery 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, brewery software, 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 brewery 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.
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.
