It’s been another busy few weeks at Breww, with a set of updates focused on improving how more complex parts of the platform work day to day.
This month includes several new features and major improvements, particularly around guest beers, reporting, and multi-currency support, alongside a new report to help with duty planning ahead of the next duty year.
Here’s a round-up of what’s new.
To create a guest beer, set up the beer via Production → Beers → New beer → Guest beer, then create products as normal. Breww automatically creates a linked stock item for purchasing, where you can add supplier details, re-order quantities and other purchasing information.
When this stock item is receipted, Breww automatically generates product stock with batch and expiry tracking, just as if the beer had been packaged in-house.
As a result, you can now:
Rack from containers using guest beers
Include guest beers in auto-assembly for mixed packs and multi-packs
Specify duty responsibility per product (defaulting to not your responsibility)
Include guest beers in reporting broken down by container type
The “Guest beer” product type has been removed as part of this change. Existing guest beer products are now standard product types (Keg, Cask, Smallpack, etc.) with a flag identifying them as guest beers. All existing price book rules and BrewwQL filters have been updated automatically.
If you previously set up guest beers using the older method, you can optionally migrate your existing stock items to take advantage of these improvements.
The following features are now available:
Group by support, allowing results to be grouped by selected fields
Aggregation mode, with calculations such as sum, average, min, max and count
Sortable results within Breww, without exporting
These improvements are designed to reduce the need to export data for basic analysis and make it easier to explore and sense-check information directly in the platform.
For more detail on how these features work, see the Raw Data Explorer help guide.
This allows breweries to work with suppliers and customers in different currencies, while keeping reporting consistent within Breww. Setup and behaviour details, including how currencies are handled in reporting, are available in the help documentation.
Once you’ve entered your latest annual production totals, the Duty rate change difference by product report shows how much duty you’re currently paying, alongside what you’ll pay under the new rates.
You can find this report under Beer duty → View (or Spirits duty → View, where applicable).
Got an idea for a feature or improvement? Share it in the Breww Community Forum. Your feedback plays a direct role in shaping future updates.
Want to see how Breww works in practice? You can now explore the platform using a test brewery account, loaded with example data so you can click around, try features, and get a feel for how everything fits together.
There’s no payment details required, and no pressure. It’s simply a way to explore Breww in your own time and see how it could work for your brewery.