Inventory

The inventory allows you to manage all of your stock of brewing ingredients. The main sections are for Fermentables, Hops, Yeast and Miscellaneous ingredients.

You can sort the inventory in a number of ways to help you find what you are looking for by clicking the sort button and selecting you chosen sorting method from the below options

• Default

• Inventory Amount

• Name

• Best Before Date

• Lot#

To reverse the sort order just click the sort button and then click your chosen sorting method again

The sorting by Best Before Date is a good way of seeing what you need to use up. Sorting by Batch number becomes particularly useful in a commercial environment where you may have on hand multiple batches of the same ingredient.

Importing ingredients

You can import ingredients and inventory directly using files in the BeerXML and Beersmith ingredient BSMX formats. Just click the Import button

Printing your ingredient list

You can print a full list of the ingredients in stock, this is particularly useful for stock inventory/audit processes in a commercial brewery. Just click the Print button and check the boxes from the below options of items to include in the printout. Fermentables, Hops, Misc and Yeast are checked by default.

• Fermentables

• Hops

• Misc

• Yeast

• Negative Only

• Exclude Negative

Tip

The particularly useful feature here though is when you need to create a shopping list, although for this to work you will have had to enable 'Allow Negative Inventory' in settings. Plan you brew by creating your recipe, choosing brew and putting in the date in the future you want to brew.

• Check the boxes for the inventory in the Planning section of your brew.

• Come back to your Inventory and click print

• Check 'Negative Only'

• Print and you have a ready made shopping list for you next batch

This can be done for multiple batches by choosing brew on several recipes, setting the dates in the future. This is a great way of planning you ingredient orders and minimising shipping costs and chances of not having something on hand when you need it. This is especially useful in commercial breweries

Should there be nothing visible in your inventory double check the 'Toggle Inventory' hasn't been clicked, as this will hide all of your inventory contents

To Add a new inventory item click the Add button next to the category of ingredient you want to add. This will take you to the relevant page for you to add your ingredient type, Fermentables, Hops, Misc or Yeast

Multiple entries for the same item

To track different batches of the same ingredient, you can create multiple entries for it. To do this, click on the ingredient you want to record multiple batches of, then click on the Copy button. This will then take you back to your inventory screen and you will see 2 copies of the ingredient you just copied

You can modify the details of an entry, such as quantity, batch numbers, Best before dates, etc., by clicking on it.

To remove inventory stock

To remove stock from your inventory, click on the inventory item and then click the Clear button at the bottom left of the pop-up box. This will zero the inventory quantity but not remove the ingredient from your ingredient database, so you can always add it back into stock at a later date if you buy some more.