Do You Really Need to Buy More Kegs?
Take 3 minutes to read this and you could save thousands in new keg costs Step 1: Map your supply chain Take a moment to map the journey your keg takes from your brewery to the tap & back again. This is the backbone of how most breweries plan their business operations and logistics costing. […]
Easy Production Planning in Brewery with Data
Production planning in brewery can be a challenging task. With the increasing demand for craft beer, breweries must ensure they produce enough beer to meet the market’s needs. However, overproduction can lead to wastage, while underproduction can lead to lost sales. This blog post will discuss production planning and how data can help streamline the […]
IoT Keg Tracking: KegLink’s Place Tags
As a brewery, your supply chain is crucial to your success. From sourcing the best ingredients to ensuring the timely delivery of your products, there are many components to consider. With the increasing competition in the beer industry, it is essential to provide top-notch customer service and optimise your operations. This is where KegLink comes […]
Venue Monitoring: No More Mystery Venues
Kegs going to mystery venues seems to be quite a common phenomenon, which is a venue monitoring issue that any brewery needs to solve for better growth. Sometimes some kegs somehow end up in venues that are not on the books. This could mean that an employee at a venue is selling your beer onto […]
Keg Location Tracking: Why We Don’t Use GPS?
The metrics our KegLink sensors monitor for keg location tracking are not randomly chosen. Each is individually important to the storage and delivery of great beer, and combined they provide a multitude of measures that are useful to brewers, sellers and drinkers alike. Location is one metric that underlies every other measure our sensors monitor. […]
The Tale of Darwin Keg
One of the most famous keg tracking stories at BinaryBeer is the journey of fondly named “Darwin Keg”. Darwin Keg was blessed (or cursed) by Murphy’s Law over its year and a half long journey, as anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Despite many KegLink alerts throughout the process, Darwin Keg was allowed […]
Keglink Features
KEGLINK FEATURE: Temperature The metrics our KegLink sensors monitor are not randomly chosen. Each is individually important to the storage and delivery of great beer, and combined they provide a multitude of measures that are useful to brewers, sellers and drinkers alike. Temperature is arguably the most important metric when it comes to beer, so […]
Rubber Top & Encased Kegs — Our Next Challenge in Keg Tracking
Some of the world’s best brewers, who are seriously dedicated to beer freshness, have a different way of doing things. Plastic encased kegs?! Well, we never! But we should, so now we are. Rubber topped, or plastic encased kegs aren’t the norm for brewers, but they are used. Sometimes you have to take apart a […]
How Do We Know if Your Keg is Empty?
Beer Keg Challenges When BinaryBeer first started, one of our original goals was to develop a technology which would allow us to determine the precise quantity of product remaining inside a beer keg. This goal raised a few immediate challenges: Kegs are food safe vessels which need to meet certain regulatory requirementsAny device or object […]
IP69K Achievement Unlocked! Nice 😉
KegLink’s ingress protection rating was officially upgraded from IP67 to IP69K – the highest rating on the ingress protection (IP) scale! This is great news, assuring the ruggedness and longevity of our industrial design, but what does this mean in the grand scheme of things? Kegs being rolled into a basement As our highly scientific […]