What Are Recipes?

In Arryved Brewery Management (ABM), you can create Recipes, for each beverage you produce, to make your Batch planning easier. When you’re ready to start a Batch in Production, the Recipe has the instructions including the ingredients list (from your Materials) and scheduling for each step. Recipes also track material quantities, costs, packaging plans, and loss percentages. Use this guide to learn how to create Recipes. 

Prerequisites

• To create Recipes you must be an ABM User with either the Admin or Production User Role. 
• The ingredients for this Recipe must already be added as Items in your ABM under the ‘Material’ type.
• The finished product that the Recipe is intended to create must already be added a an Item in your ABM under the ‘Finished Goods’ type.
• Your Inventory Locations of the 'Production' type must be added to your ABM. These include your brewing, fermentation, conditioning, and barrel-aging vessels and packaging locations.

Limitations

• Your ABM doesn’t allow Inventory to go negative. When creating a Batch from a Recipe, the Inputs (ingredients) must be on hand. If not, the Batch can’t continue. 
• If you are seeing a quantity error with the Inputs, double-check that the Inventory Locations and Dates are correct. 

How It Works

Create A New Recipe

1. From your ABM, click Production from the left-side navigation bar.
2. Toggle to the Recipes tab from the top navigation bar.
3. Click New Recipe. 

Recipe Name

Give the Recipe a name that’ll help you easily identify it and keep your Recipe list organized. We recommend including the name of the brand and beverage and the batch size. 

• Example: ‘Drum Sand Co. - Coffee Stout - 10bbl’

Schedule

The schedule will auto-fill once you add Stages below. It provides a visual of the Production lifecycle for this Recipe. You can see how long the Batch will take to complete as well as each individual step.

Stages

Stages are directly coordinated with your Inventory Locations of the Production type. These include Brewing, Fermenting, Conditioning, Barrel-aging, and Packaging. Each Stage is essentially saying where this beverage is going to be and for how long. When you need to move the beverage from one location to another, you move from Stage to Stage. 

1. Click Add Stage
2. Give it a Name.
3. Enter a Duration. Include the total days needed for each Task in the Stage.

Note: The actual vessel that the beverage occupies during each Stage is determined when you start a Batch.  

Tasks

In each Stage, you’ll add Tasks to outline the steps to complete that Stage. For example, your ‘Brewing’ Stage can have Tasks for ‘Malt’ and ‘Hops’. Each Task creates one Output using a series of Inputs. 

1. Under a Stage, click Add Task.
2. Give the Task a Name.
3. Enter the day within the Batch process you want this Task to start. If this Task should start on the 3rd day of the process, enter a 3 in the Day field.
4. Add the Output and Inputs. Keep reading to learn how.

Output & Inputs

The Output is the Item you're producing in a Task. Each Task only has one Output. You can use the same Output for multiple Tasks. 

• For example, Brewing/Fermenting/Conditioning Stages, might have the same Output; ‘Drum Sand Co. - Unpackaged Coffee Stout - 1bbl’

If you have a Packaging Stage, you can consider creating a Task for each packaging size. 

• A ‘Sixtel’ Task may have an Output of ‘Drum Sand Co. - Coffee Stout - 1/6bbl keg’.
• A ‘Half’ Task may have an Output of ‘Drum Sand Co. - Coffee Stout - 1/2bbl keg’.

The Inputs are the Materials (ingredients) that are needed to produce the Output. There can be as many Inputs as needed to produce a single Output. 

• For example, ‘Malt City - Pale Malt - 50lb’, and ‘Malt City - White Wheat Malt - 50lb’.

Note: Stages and Tasks are free-form, they can be tailored however you need. The above examples are for your reference, but not a required method. 

Both your Inputs and Outputs specify the quantity, and calculate the total cost. Be sure to adjust the quantity of the Output and Inputs as necessary. 

• For example, if this is a 10bbl recipe, and your Output is 1bbl, then the quantity of the Output should be 10 to scale up for the full recipe. 

Cost Calculations

Underneath your Stages, the system provides some estimations for you:

• Total Est. Input Cost = Total cost of all Inputs for this recipe. 
• Total Est. Goods Output = How much of the beverage is to be produced? Packaged and unpackaged. 
• Total Est. Output (WIP and others) = Any outputs that are considered unfinished. One example is if an output is of the ‘Material’ type. 

Recipe Notes

Enter any notes for this recipe that you see fit. This can be used as a communication tool between you and your teammates. 

Once you’re done building this Recipe and have double-checked your work, scroll back to the top and click Save & Close. 

View / Edit Existing Recipes

The table on the Recipes page holds the running list of all your Active and Inactive recipes, and you can see some quick info about the recipes. 

• Hover over any column header and then click on its Filter Icon to apply a filter.

Click on a Recipe to expand its full details, history, or make any changes. Toggle to the HISTORY tab to see details for each time this Recipe was used in a Batch including: 

• The Batch name
• Start / End dates
• The status of the Batch
• And for all Batches that are ‘In progress’, the current Stage and vessel it's currently in. 

From the HISTORY tab of the Recipe, you can also Schedule a Batch or Duplicate the recipe to help save time when creating a new one with similar instructions. 

Next

If you came from the ABM Onboarding Guide, head back there and continue to the next step. Or, check out other related articles below. 

• Production
• Scheduling Batches
• Managing Batches