The Weekend You Get Back: Reporting Without Reconstructing

Cold Side, Episode 3: The Weekend You Get Back: Reporting Without Reconstructing The Brewer's Report of Operations takes about twenty minutes to fill in. Everything before it — the brew sheets, the keg board, the text message to the cellar guy who quit in June — is what actually takes the weekend, and this episode puts a number on that. The number: 60 hours a year. Five hours a month is an assumption and Wren labels it one on air, but at a forty-hour week that is a week and a half of an owner's time spent rebuilding a figure the brewery already had. The action: Take last month's filed numbers and try to tie the removals line back to actual sales and taproom depletions. Just that one line. Time yourself doing it, because however long that takes is your problem statement. Segments: 0:00 First Runnings 1:20 Hot Side: what the monthly report actually costs, and whether a whiteboard photo fixes it 7:56 Ask BrewBuddy: "What are my total removals for the month so far?" 9:16 Dry Hops 10:19 Last Call Mac and Wren are AI voices. Every figure we cite, we tell you where it came from or that we're estimating it. The Ask BrewBuddy segment is a live query run against the product, played back unedited. FermentIQ is an all-in-one management platform for breweries and other craft beverage producers. First 30 days free, cancel anytime. ferment-iq.com