Creating a new batch
You can start a batch in Breww by selecting Actions → New batch or by selecting the New batch button on the production page under the Brewing systems, vessels and in-progress batches section.
Adding your batch details
A batch number will be automatically created for the batch, which numerically follows your batch number sequence upon starting the batch, so a batch number wont yet be displayed. You have the opportunity to give the batch a prefix if you use these for your batches, as well as a batch reference. If you are following a basic number sequence, then these can all be left blank.
This article will follow how to create a Standard batch in Breww. You can learn about our other Brew types in our Contract brewing & collaborations in Breww guide.
All the beers/drinks you have created will appear in the Beer dropdown menu. If you haven’t yet created your beers, then you can find out how to set these up by following our Managing beers & packaging approval help guide. Having selected the beer, you will also be able to select which recipe you are using for this batch. For more on how to build your recipes for your beers, then please see our How to build your recipes and brew sheets in Breww help guide.
You can choose to create a batch without having a recipe assigned. However, we would strongly advise using a recipe where possible, as this would carry your ingredient stock for batch traceability for ingredient recalls as well as costings, which will impact your stock value and margins. Our Batch tracing and ingredient recalls guide explains this in more detail.
You will then need to select your brewing system, planned volume, and the number of turns. To find out more on what you need to enter as your planned volume, then please see our Understanding recipe and batch volumes in Breww guide, and our Multi-turn batches guide for more on multi-turn batches.
You will then be able to schedule your vessel use for the batch and set a planned start date; you can find out more on how to schedule your vessels or have Breww automatically schedule your vessels via our below guide on How to plan which vessels will be used on a beer batch.
Lastly, you will be able to schedule in any planned packagings for the batch. This will then get displayed in your batch schedule under Planned packagings. Any planned packagings will populate your stock availability forecast. Our Planned packaging in Breww guide discusses how this works in more detail.
