There aren't many breweries in this market, and every one of them talks to the others. So here is who BrewOS is for, and who it isn't.
You brew more than one beer, across more than one tank, and somebody other than you takes readings.
You have had the conversation about whether the next fermenter is worth buying, and you did not have a number to settle it with.
You want to know that this batch tastes like the last one, and right now you're going on memory.
Your fermenters are bigger than your brewhouse, so you fill one over two brew days and split it at the transfer. BrewOS follows both halves of that.
You brew on paper and you like it that way. BrewOS will meet you there — but it'll ask you to write the recipe properly, and if that's not a trade you want to make, better that you know now.
You have just bought another production system. You should not be paying for two.
You're a brewpub that also packages. If the taproom is the business, buy a till system first and come back to us.
One brewer. Four tanks. Three beers. You hold the whole brewery in your head, and you're not wrong to.
A spreadsheet is honestly fine at this size. The real competitor is the wall calendar, and it's winning.
Come back when a second person starts taking readings on days you're not there.
Until then, the practice is worth more to you than the software. The journal is free, and what's in it works whatever you end up running.
If the taproom is your business, you need a point of sale, not a production system.
If your tanks are half empty and the problem is accounts, routes and reps, BrewOS solves the wrong end of your business.
If you want one system for everything, BrewOS won't become your ERP and isn't trying to.
If you want software to tell you what to brew, we don't forecast demand and won't start.
If you brew at home, the tools built for that are excellent and cost a fraction of this.
Twelve founding breweries, and then we stop until we can onboard properly.
That's not scarcity marketing. It's how long it takes to set a brewery up the way we think it should be done.