Beers/drinks and packaging approval

one of the most important steps in breww to be able to brew and package your beers and drinks is to create and manage your beers/drinks themselves if you a producing a drink type that is not beer, you will first need to head to your settings and select which drink types you produce please see the article below for more details for the remainder of this article, if you are producing a different drink type to beer, you can replace the term 'beer', with 'drink', as this will be displayed instead on your breww account managing drink types docid\ fpa bzi0rxqtetgcqdl4d creating and managing your beers just getting started with breww? if you have not yet added any beers to breww, and you would like to add these in bulk, then our adding beers/drinks docid\ lpyzwjd777su20s1sdmp2 article from our getting started guide docid\ mdxf f trhvx1layeovsa will guide you through how to import your beers in bulk you can create new beers and manage your existing beers in production > view > beers when creating a new beer, you will be prompted to enter the following name drink type beer style beer code prefix (used when automatically creating product codes) short customer facing description (you will be able to include 'tasting notes' here) alcohol percentage degrees plato for export invoices drink style allergens colour label print colour best before dates (bbe) when creating a new beer, you have the option to enter your bbe dates for your stock labels and also have the option to add a bbe to be used from delivery we recommend leaving these fields blank and instead creating best before rules, as this saves a lot of time moving forward and allows you to make them even more specific to different situations this is discussed further in the best before/expiry dates docid\ pvqt8fzfja4ekyud7ilae help guide if you would rather have the number of weeks from the packaging/delivery date set on the beer, then you can fill in these fields instead beer tags the beer can also be tagged, which is a really handy way of easily filtering your beers for reporting, for example, your 'core' beers and your 'seasonal' beers you can also enter a customer facing description for your beer to be used on the breww trade store any tags entered against a beer can also be used as categories in the trade store you can find out more on how to create a breww trade store for your business via the article breww trade store docid\ zb4yqc8vsf04tdelxvv2d you can also choose to 'quick create' products within a beer for container types already registered in the system packaging approval packaging approval templates can be set within a beer after its creation to ensure certain parameters are met before racking is permitted to set a new packaging approval template, navigate to the beer in question and select the ' + ' icon under the packaging approval subheading screenshot 2023 11 23 at 14 16 06|690x212 from here, new approval templates can be added from the dropdown box and customised to your requirements the number of packaging approval parameters is not limited, and you can select whether readings are mandatory or not using the 'edit approval required' option within this menu if you select to make approval mandatory, it will not be possible to package (rack) this beer until the approval is completed on a per batch basis when managing a beer, you can copy saved packaging approval templates from other beers image|690x213