Please could you add so that when making a new product either the allergens are on a drop down menu, or that it wont let you make the new product without allergens being entered (Most beers contain at least gluten)
We’ve had instances of allergens not being added to product and then having to re label kegs etc
Thanks for the suggestion, Max, I’m sure this could be added as an option.
Just in case you didn’t already know, you can set the allergens on the beer too, and then if they’re left blank on the product, Breww will use those set on the beer. This might make it easier as you don’t need to set them in as many places.
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Luke, we’ve had similar issues before too.
We always use the Beer Allergens, however this field is not mandatory and has been missed previously.
A quick tick drop down though would save a lot of data re-entry.
Maybe a customisable allergens list (in production settings?) could form the drop down? Would give options for the 14 allergens, plus still the flexibility for precautionary statements.etc, but also helps keep uniformity across products (spelling, exact wording.etc).
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Hi Guys, a vote from us for this too. We’ve also experienced missing allergens from labels due to it not being a required field. If they could be pulled automatically from a beer’s recipe this would be ideal but a mandatory setting/tick list instead would suffice. Cheers.
We are doing some housekeeping on the allergens associated with beers and notice some omissions and inconsistencies. It would make much more sense to me that they are listed at recipe rather than beer level as a beer may remain the same but tweaks to the recipe would affect those listed.
An even better improvement would be to state them at ingredient level (by a tick box). That way the 14 allergens and gluten containing cereals could be flagged and whenever they are added in a recipe they flow through to the products and their respective packaging labels.
Was there any progress on this suggestion? Again we find that iterations on a recipe mean discrepancies between what is set as allergens on the beer and what the recipe has. I would love this to be set at either recipe or stock level.
I’m sorry, but there’s no update to report on this yet. We’ve been busy working on other requests, but do hope to get to this in the future. I know this would be useful and it’s not been lost.
I’m not convinced about setting them on stock items. I can see the logic, but we’ve got twice as many ingredients as recipes. I’m not really keen on going through thousands of check boxes.
A check box approach may not be the best way,
Are we having checkboxen for each of Wheat, Barley, Spelt, and so on? Or just one for “Gluten”? Since we have to use the name of the grain on labels, “cereals containing gluten” doesn’t seem like it would do. Unless the inheritance from ingredient to product was quite clever.
Also, some might chose to label “allergens” in addition to the (UK / EU) 14 required (other jurisdictions may require more or fewer allergens be declared). For instance, we label “cinnamon”. So some kind of text entry is going to be required in addition, I guess.