Great brewers don't guess. They know.
Never run out of Citra three days before you need it. KettleiQ tracks distributor depletions, predicts your next brew date, and alerts you before the crisis hits.
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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.
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.
Ricky drafted the Brewer's Report. QuickBooks is reconciled. FV3 just pinged the maintenance queue on its own. Weekend starts on time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Digital brew sheets, cellar readings, packaging QC, split fermentations. One timeline. One audit trail. Zero clipboards.
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.
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.
Schedule by time, by usage, by either-or, or by live condition. When the threshold hits, the repair ticket writes itself.
FIFO or average costing. Every part used posts a journal entry to QuickBooks the moment the work order closes.
Click any expense in QuickBooks and walk all the way back to the repair ticket, the asset, the photos, and the exact parts.
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.
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.
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.
See exactly how many cases you're under target, per SKU, every morning at 3am.
KettleiQ books the brew calendar for you when coverage drops below threshold.
The system sees the shortfall coming and drafts purchase orders for the grain, hops, and cans you'll need.
“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.”
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.
Every feature that matters on shift is on mobile — work orders, gravity readings, keg scanning, voice notes. Built for gloved hands and wet floors.
Yes — we have offerings for breweries 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.
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.
20-minute demo. No pitch deck. We'll open KettleiQ with data that looks like yours and walk you through a Tuesday on the floor.
No credit card required.