Brewing
How a beer goes from recipe to package in PintDeck, and where the tank schedule, brew day, cellar tasks, recipes and stats fit.
Brewing in PintDeck follows one record, the batch, from the day you plan it to the day it's packaged. The Tank Schedule (sidebar Inventory › Tank Schedule) books its tanks, brew day runs the hot side step by step, and cellar tasks carry it from the fermenter to packaging. Recipes say how long each beer takes, and Stats add up what you've brewed.
All of it is on the Brewhouse and Reserve plans. Recipes and Stats are being turned on brewery by brewery: if your sidebar says Coming soon next to them, they aren't on for you yet. On PintDeck Business for iPhone, brewing lives under Cellar, and an Apple Watch can run brew day from your wrist.
How it fits together
- A recipe's fermentation steps and carbonation add up to its grain to glass: the days from brew day until the beer is pourable.
- Plan a brew books a fermenter, and a brite if the beer uses one, for exactly that long.
- PintDeck knows when each beer runs out, so it works out when to brew it next and suggests a day with free tanks.
- Change one part and the rest follows. Move a brew day and its tanks move with it. Crash two days late and the transfer, the brite booking, the ready day and packaging all move two days too.
Set up brewing
Add your tanks
Fermenters, unitanks and brites, with their size in barrels. See The tank schedule.
Say how you brew
The weekdays you brew, how many brews a day, and the days PintDeck assumes when a recipe doesn't say. See How you brew.
Teach it how long each beer takes
Give each beer a house recipe, or import your brew history so PintDeck learns from the batches you've already brewed.
Plan your next brew
PintDeck fills in the recipe, the days and the tanks. See Plan a brew.
Brewing
The tank schedule
Your tanks over time, moving batches, blocked-off days and how you brew.
Plan a brew
Book a brew's tanks, and when each beer needs brewing next.
Batches
A batch from planned to packaged, and what each status means.
Brew day
Run the hot side on the web, on autopilot or by hand.
Brew day on iPhone and Apple Watch
Alarms, the Live Activity, no signal, and your wrist.
Cellar tasks
Dry hops, gravity readings, the crash, the transfer and packaging.
Recipes
House recipes, variations, grain to glass and versions.
Stats
Barrels brewed, average batch size, and what's in every tank.