This section addresses bottled, canned, and draft beer. Managing the inventory of alcoholic products is very similar to food, with these suggestions to make it easier for you.
Whenever you see the word “Food Cost” mentally substitute “Beverage Cost” or “Pour Cost.” The formulas are the same. Other suggestions include:
Inventory Module
Super Group and Groups: One suggestion is to create a Super Group called Alcohol, and then Groups called Bottled Beer or Draft Beer. Alternatively, you can create a Super Group called Beer, and then Groups called Bottled Beer and Draft Beer. Which one you choose depends on how you have setup your Cost of Goods Sold in the general ledger of your Accounting program. If you do not have an Accounting program, then match how you count inventory and calculate the Cost of Goods Sold in your bookkeeping forms.
Naming: If you sell draft and bottled beer from the same brewer, make sure you name the items so that you can tell which beers are draft and which ones are bottled.
Saleable Items: Use the Saleable Item section at the bottom of each ingredient screen for bottle and canned beer. You can then add the menu price and PLU number to track sales.
Packaging Section: For bottled and canned beers, case is the Purchasing Unit, while the pack size is bottle. For draft beer in kegs, contact your beer supplier for the ounce size/head ratio for your keg yields. Use keg as the Amount Unit. The Pack Unit and Description will be Floz. Later, in the Recipe section, you can create serving recipes for glasses and pitchers.
reciProfity makes it easy to enter partial keg packaging. Click on the Template in the Packaging section of Ingredients.
reciProfity will fill in the correct measurements. For example a half keg is 1984 floz:
