Empty containers back into a vessel/tank (e.g. to allow blending two different packaged products to make a new beer)

We have a product which is made up on the day of delivery by blending 2 casks together
ie 1 cask of product 1 + 1 cask of product 2 = 2 cask of product 3.
It would be useful if Breww could handle this.

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Hi Ben,

Thanks for the suggestion and welcome to the community!

I can definitely see how this would be useful so if anyone else would like to see this feature in Breww, please use the voting button above to help move it up the development queue. I will make sure to update you if there are any developments on this feature.

Cheers,

Joe

If we could empty containers to a vessel (even if it was an “imaginary” one) this would be easy.
See:
https://community.breww.com/t/empty-containers-to-a-vessel/1603

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Good point, thanks Jon. Your suggestion might be the best way for us to go about implementing this :+1:

It would be great to have this feature. We have a barrel that we filled from 6 x KeyKegs, but there is no way to transfer from a packaged product to a vessel.

It’s not uncommon to cellar base product and then blend it with an aged product, but as far as I can see in Breww, once beer is racked in to a container—there’s no way to move it back out.

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Yes, you’re right that this isn’t currently possible.

I’m going to merge the two related threads here as that will combine the votes and I feel that putting containers back into a vessel is the right way forward here for both requests.

If anyone else is looking for this, please give it a vote now with the button in the top-left.

It would be neat if we could empty containers to an arbitrary vessel.
i.e. transfer the contents of a container (emptying it in the process) to one of our vessels. Or from multiple containers.
This is something I’ve had to do for real a few times - e.g. when (small-scale) bottling beer that has
been sitting in cask.

I can see that there may be other applications, also :slight_smile:

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We could most certainly do with this feature. We have a beer that was originally a blend of two beers. We usually brew it as its own beer but sometimes we have to recreate it by blending casks into an empty cask

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Thanks John. I see you haven’t voted for this and I’d highly recommend that you do. For more on how we manage feature requests, please see 💡 Posting ideas & feature requests for Breww 💙

As a Cider producer this feature would be very useful. Cider can be volatile and can sometime re-ferment in keg, so it would be useful to be able to move the packaged product back into tank to allow the re-fermentation and then for the product to be re packaged

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I’m also in the cider world, and I needed this feature yesterday! Please let’s get this in development. Thanks so much!
Morgan

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Then you should Vote!

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I’m not sure how, I’m newer to Breww :slight_smile: I thought liking the post was to maybe vote. I’m all for this! Thank you!

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There should be a vote button up there ^^^ somewhere :slight_smile:

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Yes this would be very helpful. Tomorrow I need to empty kegs into a fermenter for blending, then back into kegs. FWIW, it’s all the same beer. Good times. :slight_smile:

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We had some kegs (of an unfiltered stout) that over-carbonated, so had to empty them into a tank to lose some gas, then back into (all but one of) the same kegs. Sigh. Fortunately, we were good for abv. As far as Breww was concerned we just lost a keg. It did create a window where things didn’t add up and would have needed a bit of explaining had anyone asked.

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We also sometimes rework our kombucha if it becomes too acidic in keg or close to its expiry date we will decant it and either blend it directly into another batch or mix it with an already prepared batch and keg it again.
Currently this isn’t possible with Breww but I have already had to do this and am now trying to figure out how to keep track of my batches for food safety.

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I have another use case for this… This week I blended a wood aged beer with new beer from a fermentor and added some fruit in a grundy. I don’t see how to record this correctly in Breww :pensive_face:.

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