Sign up for our free webinar: Optimizing your brewery operations (COGS to yeast management) with a flexible software solution

Managing a brewery is a juggling act, and it involves keeping an impressive amount of chainsaws (read job tasks) balanced in your hands and in the air around you. Let’s just consider a few of the business facets that could coexist under the term “craft brewery” — physical brewing operations, packaging hall, restaurant, bar, distribution wing, government compliance, merch, events, oh my. Then, each one of those umbrella terms branches off into a variety of other managerial ecosystems.

Let’s just ponder beer recipes for a moment. How do you manage them? Like, on paper? Or in an Excel spreadsheet? Your head? Someone else’s head? That’s concerning. What if you could quickly search an extensive database of grains to quickly dial up your grain bill? What if you had access to instant gravity and color calculations to make dialing in your beer recipes a breeze? What if this same program/portal/software/thingy also streamlined a bunch of other brewery managerial ops — COGS analysis, TTB reporting, yeast management and so much more.

Well dear reader, I know of such a software service.

It’s called Ollie Ops, and it’s the spotlight of Craft Brewer Business‘ latest webinar: Software Solutions Built by Brewers, For Brewers. Here are the deets:

Ollie Ops will be hosting a webinar with Craft Brewing Business on Wednesday, Sept. 21 (from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT), to help breweries and beer pros discover how to streamline brewing operations with software. Sign up right here!

Quick question: What is Ollie Ops again? Ollie Ops (formerly Fermentable, owned by parent company Next Glass) is an easy-to-use software to help you manage your brewing operations. Your business is brewing beer, not managing spreadsheets, compiling TTB reports and fumbling through brew logs. The folks at Ollie Ops know the ins and outs of the industry, so they developed a software that gets the paperwork out of the way, so you can get brewing.

Here’s an example: When it comes time to generating TTB reports, the classic process can easily involve a full day or more of rummaging through brew logs that had been through the ringer of an active brewing environment, not to mention illegible handwriting. Ollie Ops can generate those TTB reports with only a couple of clicks. It can also automatically track real time raw material inventory and enables simple, intuitive brew log management. It saves brewers time on paperwork, allowing them to focus on their craft. Wanna learn more?

The webinar is free. Sign up right here.

Here are our speakers:

Kyle Kensrue

Kyle Kensrue is a brewery solutions account executive at Next Glass (parent company of Ollie Ops). He worked in the hospitality industry for 10 years before moving over to the brewing world. As director of operations at Randolph Beer (Brooklyn, N.Y.) he was in charge of developing their brewing program, to go along with their established bar and restaurant group. He also spent time as the director of operations at the award-winning Gun Hill Brewing (Bronx, N.Y.). Kensrue is a Certified Cicerone and former president of the NYC Brewers Guild.

Dustin Jeffers

Dustin Jeffers is a solution consultant at Next Glass. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Connecticut and his Master’s Degree from Florida Atlantic University. He has been in the beer industry since 2012, working at Saltwater Brewery as the head brewer/chief operations officer and at 3 Sons Brewing Co. as the director of operations. Jeffers has been a part of multiple aspects of the brewing industry including brewing, front of house, sales and operations.

The webinar is free. Sign up right here.