Craft Beverage Management Software

Stop Guessing. Know Exactly What to Produce & When.

Great brewers don't guess. They know.

Never run out of what you need three days before you need it. KettleiQ tracks distributor depletions across your brewery, winery, or distillery — predicts your next production date, and alerts you before the crisis hits.

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Ricky AI
What should we brew next week?
↳ Citra stock hits minimums on the 14th. Schedule 60 BBL Hazy IPA.
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Trusted by craft producers across the US · Built by active brewery owners
Before KettleiQ · With KettleiQ

From firefighting to forecasting.

Most brewery software tells you what happened last month. That's useful for bookkeeping. It's useless for Monday morning. KettleiQ runs the math forward — so the next batch, the next repair, and the next purchase order are queued before anyone has to ask.

Brewer buried in spreadsheets at 11pm
Before KettleiQ · 11:47 pm Tuesday

Eight spreadsheets. Three sticky notes. Zero sleep on Sunday.

Recipes live in one file, costs in another, the maintenance log in a notebook, and the TTB report is due Friday. This is the reality for most breweries under 50,000 BBL.

Relaxed brewer with a pint beside a dashboard
With KettleiQ · 4:02 pm Friday

One platform. One source of truth. A pint in hand by five.

Ricky drafted the Brewer's Report. QuickBooks is reconciled. FV3 just pinged the maintenance queue on its own. Weekend starts on time.

From recipe to TTB file

One platform. Every job on the floor.

Nine tightly-integrated modules that cover recipe design, the brew day, the cellar, the packaging line, the warehouse, the maintenance shop, the books, and the TTB file — plus an AI assistant that works across all of them. Whether you brew beer, ferment wine, or distill spirits — every module works across all three.

KettleiQ · MRP

Predict your next batch.

Material Requirements Planning reads daily depletion and tells you exactly what to brew, when, and how much — with purchase orders drafted for every ingredient shortfall.

KettleiQ MRP planning screen
KettleiQ · Brew Calendar

The brewhouse on one screen.

Live Gantt for every tank: brew day, fermentation, dry hop, crash, packaging, CIP. Drag a batch, the downstream schedule reflows. Tank conflicts never make it to the floor.

Brew calendar Gantt view
KettleiQ · Recipes

Versioned recipes with live math.

Color, bitterness, and alcohol recompute as you type. Every change is tracked so you can compare what you planned to what actually hit the brite tank.

Recipe list
KettleiQ · Batches

Every batch, start to brite.

Digital brew sheets, cellar readings, packaging QC, split fermentations. One timeline. One audit trail. Zero clipboards.

Batches list
KettleiQ · Mobile

The recipe at your fingertips — right when you need it.

Pull up the brew sheet on the mill floor, check a mash step between additions, log a temp without walking back to the office. Every tool that lives on the desktop lives in your pocket.

Brewer milling grain with the KettleiQ recipe screen open on a phone
The moat · CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) built in

Most brewery software pretends maintenance doesn't exist.

We built it in from day one. Full equipment registry. Parts catalog with real costing. Preventive schedules that trigger automatically. And every repair lands in QuickBooks.

01

Preventive maintenance that remembers for you

Schedule by time, by usage, by either-or, or by live condition. When the threshold hits, the repair ticket writes itself.

02

Parts catalog with real costing

FIFO or average costing. Every part used posts a journal entry to QuickBooks the moment the work order closes.

03

A full paper trail, end to end

Click any expense in QuickBooks and walk all the way back to the repair ticket, the asset, the photos, and the exact parts.

See the maintenance module →
Work orders open on a tablet on the brewhouse floor
Meet Ricky

AI that lives inside the workflow.

Ricky isn't a chat window bolted onto the side. It's present inside brew sheets, bank reconciliations, production scheduling, and document tagging — answering in the context of the screen you're already on.

  • ✦Voice notes on the floor — transcribed and filed to the right tank, batch, or log
  • ✦Bank reconciliation assistant that reads the statement and proposes matching entries
  • ✦Production insights on the MRP screen — flags SKUs trending to stockout before they do
You
Hey Ricky — can we still hit Friday's packaging run for Peach Cobbler?
R
Tight but doable. FV2 is on day 14 and gravity is at 1.010 — one point above target. I'd crash tonight, QC tomorrow morning, transfer to BT01 Thursday. Want me to reserve the brite?
You
Yes, and draft the packaging work order.
R
Done. Packaging run WO-2026-021 scheduled Friday 7:00 am. I assigned Aaron, reserved the canning line, and held 47 empty cases of 16oz 4-packs.
Ask Ricky about any batch, part, or account…
Brew to demand. Not to habit.

Know what to brew next. Before anyone has to ask.

Our MRP screen reads daily depletion from distributors and taprooms, compares it to days-on-hand, and produces a ranked list of what to brew, when, and how much. Critical shortfalls alert themselves.

Material requirements planning, without the MRP learning curve.

We stripped the complexity and kept the math. Target days-on-hand per SKU, real coverage against a rolling rate, and a shortfall column that tells you how many cases you're short — not how many points you scored on some index.

Shortfall in plain cases

See exactly how many cases you're under target, per SKU, every morning at 3am.

Automatic brew scheduling

KettleiQ books the brew calendar for you when coverage drops below threshold.

Ingredient POs, drafted

The system sees the shortfall coming and drafts purchase orders for the grain, hops, and cans you'll need.

KettleiQ MRP planning screen

“For the first time, all our sales data—distributor reports, retail, even DABS numbers—are in one dashboard. We’re seeing trends we never could before. It’s like having an analyst we could never afford.”

Alexandra Ortiz · Co-Founder, Shades Brewing
Taprooms–50K
BBL / yearThe size KettleiQ is built for
10
ModulesRecipes to TTB, one platform
Migration
White-glove switch.
We move your data from your current platform — at no cost.
Pricing
Flat pricing.
No BBL tax. No per-user fee. Ever.
The honest comparison

Where we win. Where independent beats enterprise.

Our five biggest wins. Full feature breakdown →

Capability KettleiQ Ekos Ollie Encompass Crafted
Preventive maintenance, parts costing & auto-created repair tickets✅ Built-in❌ Missing❌ Missing❌ Missing🟡 Limited
AI assistant present inside every workflow✅ Ricky❌ Missing❌ Missing❌ Missing❌ Missing
Real-time QuickBooks sync with photos and plain-English errors✅ Built-in❌ Missing🟡 Limited❌ Missing🟡 Limited
Digital brew sheets, cellar readings, and split fermentation costs✅ Built-in🟡 Limited🟡 Limited❌ Missing🟡 Limited
Predictive scheduling — auto POs and brew dates based on depletion✅ Built-in❌ Missing❌ Missing🟡 Limited🟡 Limited

Competitor entries reflect public positioning and widely-known customer feedback as of early 2026. Verify specifics against each vendor's website before using externally. Full comparison with Encompass and expanded category detail is available on the Compare page.

Built by brewers who got tired of fighting their software.

Mobile for the floor

Close the work order from the brew deck.

Every feature that matters on shift is on mobile — work orders, gravity readings, keg scanning, voice notes. Built for gloved hands and wet floors.

iOS · Android · web Works offline Voice-first input
KettleiQ mobile work orders
Frequently asked questions

Answers to what brewers actually want to know.

Yes — we have offerings for breweries, wineries, and distilleries at different stages. If you're a taproom or smaller operation, you get the core tools to run your production without the complexity you don't need yet.

If you have wholesale accounts, multiple distribution channels, or want AI-driven analysis — cost visibility, depletion trends, ingredient planning — the higher tiers give you capabilities that used to require hiring a consultant or a full-time analyst. Ricky AI is essentially that analyst, built in.

Yes — QuickBooks Online in real time, and QuickBooks Desktop via the Conductor bridge. We pull your real chart of accounts (not a mock), attach before-and-after repair photos to entries, and surface any sync errors in plain English like "Vendor not found" instead of technical stack traces.
Yes. We auto-generate the monthly federal Brewer's Report of Operations, handle transfer-in-bond between bonded locations, and calculate federal excise tax per barrel. For wineries, KettleiQ handles federal tax classification (TTB Form 5120.17) and wine chemistry tracking. Distillery proof-gallon gauging and DSP reporting are on the roadmap for Q4 2026.

The biggest difference is that KettleiQ was built by active brewery owners, not a PE-backed software company. That changes what gets prioritized.

Our QuickBooks integration was designed by a brewer with an accounting degree who ran his own brewery books for 15 years. He didn't bolt QuickBooks onto existing software — he built KettleiQ to generate exactly what QuickBooks needs, so the data flows cleanly from the start.

Beyond that: Ricky AI is built into every workflow so you can get analysis and insights the way you'd ask a consultant. We have a full preventive maintenance module with parts costing and auto-generated repair tickets, and distributor depletion data pulled automatically rather than entered manually. Flat-rate pricing, no per-user fees, and an Open API so you're never locked in.

For most breweries, migration starts with generating a few standard reports from your current software and uploading them to KettleiQ — straightforward enough to do yourself, but we're happy to walk you through it or do it for you. We offer white-glove migration at no extra cost.

You don't have to wait for migration to be complete before you get value. Your team can start using the recipe designer, brew calendar, work orders, and team assignments on day one. We'll also help you connect QuickBooks when you're ready.

Flat monthly rate, no per-user fees, no BBL-based pricing. Plans start at $149/month. See full pricing here.
No. KettleiQ was designed to be intuitive. You'll be able to start using it right away — no implementation consultant required. Migration is included at no extra cost, and we'll help you connect QuickBooks. If you get stuck, we're available. You also have tutorials, demos, and Ricky AI to answer any questions 24/7.
Your data belongs to you — always. If you cancel, you can download your full data set through standard reports before you go. No holdbacks, no fees.
Yes. Whether you self-distribute, work with distributors, or both, KettleiQ tracks your sales channels and depletion data in one place.
Ready when you are

Brew better beer.
Run a better brewery.

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