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Just before going live with Breww, you will be able to use the Initial packaged beer stock importer to bring your existing packaged beer stock into Breww so that it reflects your current stock levels. This importer includes fields that enable you to import specific information surrounding the stock, such as the batch, the cost associated with the stock, and the expiry date.
You can import your initial packaged beer stock by heading to Settings → Data imports and updates → Initial packaged beer stock, and following the Data import guide.
It is worth noting that you cannot import stock from any in-progress batches in Breww, and in-progress batches should be imported after this import. This import should only include batches that are not held in vessel and are fully packaged. If you have a batch that is currently held in vessel, that has also been partially racked, you should not import this batch here, and instead you should import the total volume of the batch, including the volume already packaged, into a vessel, via the Create your in-progress batches importer. Following this, you will then need to package your partially racked stock from the batch, and follow the Racking (packaging beer) in Breww help guide, to create this stock in Breww.
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We are currently not tracking any of our kegs individually, so we are starting from scratch with this aspect of Breww. Are there any suggestions on how best to migrate into this methodology:
- We have a bunch of kegs of inventory farmhouse beer that is in unlabeled kegs and will need to eat imported.
- As we pick up all of our kegs from customers, they are all unlabeled as well.
It would have been nice to be able to back into this after we onboarded the rest of Breww. But, does anyone have any suggestions on how best to manage this transition?
Thanks.
Have had to do this. Even though we did track the containers (casks, for us), the labels (and codes) were incompatible with Breww so we had to redo them all.
I think the first thing you’ll want to do is make sure you can produce permanent labels for your containers:
Label printing and barcode scanning - Help docs & tutorials / General - Breww Community
Then you’ll need to create the containers in Breww:
Creating your containers - Help docs & tutorials / Containers - Breww Community
Print permanent labels (we used to do two identical labels for each, one for the top and one for the bottom, insurance for when the top one inevitably gets mutilated or lost).
The current inventory (filled) containers need to have permanent labels applied. Then you can use the importer (you now know the container codes to use!)
Any in-hand empty containers should have have permanent labels affixed.
Going forwards, as un-labelled containers return from trade, they’ll need to have permanent labels applied.
If they come back labelled, you can “return” them in Breww. Which is what you’ll end up doing with all of them, soon, you hope 
It’s worth making sure the spots where you stick the labels are really clean, degreased and dry. It’s definitely worth considering keg collars so the external cleaning of containers doesn’t have to be so fierce (getting stock labels off, etc) that you damage a lot of “permanent” labels. Or at least, get into the habit of applying temporary labels well away from your permanent ones - we stuck our permanent top ones inside the chime (the handle-y part), bit harder to scan, but they last.
