If you're a parent as well as a brewer, you'll recognise this without a doubt. You want your child to grow up healthy and make a good impression. And ideally to find its own way in the world once it's standing on its own two feet. In that respect, it's no different from the beers you bring to market. Those are, of course, all a little bit your own children too. You want a successful and healthy future for your beers just as much.
In the Netherlands, women have on average roughly 1.5 children, according to recent statistics. As a brewer, your rate of reproduction is likely considerably higher. So don't leave anything to chance when it comes to your brewery either.
With your children, you make sure they learn how the world works and what it takes for others to think well of you. You teach them how to behave within the boundaries of what's acceptable - the range of what is and isn't done. You want to show them how to take care of themselves and clean up after their own mess. You'd wish you had a handy tool to help make that happen. Growing children can be the reason for many a sleepless night.
When you're both a parent and a brewer, you'll agree: brewers actually have it easier in that regard than fathers or mothers. How exactly that works calls for a bit more explanation.
Sleeping easier with quality control
In a brewery, there is a way to help ensure you can let your beers go out into the world with peace of mind: quality control. To do this professionally, a handy tool is available to you. It's called Testing as a Service and was developed by the makers of Beer-o-Meter.
With Testing as a Service, any ambitious SME brewery can have all the necessary parameters measured quickly and easily - the ones you need to let your beers find their place in the market without worry. Quality control that helps brewers sleep more soundly, for the following five reasons.
Guaranteed quality and satisfied customers
For a brewery, quality control is essential if you want to deliver beers of guaranteed quality that give buyers a great experience. That means hospitality businesses can pour your beers in their establishments with confidence. It also means retailers can make a solid margin on your brewery's beers. And it means enthusiasts can enjoy them without a second thought - because the beer behaves itself when consumed, tastes satisfying, and invites you to have a second one.
With reliable testing you keep critical parameters under control - such as ABV, pH, IBU, and clarity. This ensures that every batch you brew meets your own (high) quality standards. You can absolutely do this yourself. But even easier is to have it done for you, with Testing as a Service.
Keeping up with (changing) laws and regulations
Since the beginning of this year, excise duty is calculated proportionally to the percentage of alcohol in a beer. Knowing exactly what's in your beer, down to the decimal point, has never been more important. For a brewer, this could mean a lot of extra work and hassle - something you definitely don't need. But there is a way to take that burden completely off your hands. Exactly: Testing as a Service, and you can leave it with complete peace of mind to the Beer-o-Meter team. With Testing as a Service, we help brewers stay fully compliant with current laws and regulations - without having to invest in expensive laboratory equipment, training, or additional staff.
Improving product stability and reducing waste
With effective quality control, you as a brewer reduce the risk of inconsistency between batches of the same beer. You limit the risk of spoilage. The ultimate effect of quality control is that your beers maintain a stable, high quality for longer. And that makes your product better merchandise for the on-trade and retail. If your beer stays good on the stockroom shelf for longer, they can buy it with greater confidence. That gives them better reasons to choose you over a competitor who takes quality less seriously.
Conducting structural quality testing gives breweries the ability to identify potential issues with their beer at an early stage - preventing the recall of already-delivered beer and avoiding unnecessary waste. Want someone to take this off your hands entirely? Then Testing as a Service is genuinely for you.
Affordable, scalable, tailored
We can already hear you thinking: all well and good, but where do I find the money to invest seriously in quality control? Completely fair. Not every independent brewery has the budget for - or need of - a professionally equipped, in-house laboratory solution. And that is precisely why we at Beer-o-Meter developed Testing as a Service: a flexible and scalable solution tailored to independent brewers. With this solution, you can choose the tests that align with your production and quality standards.
Data-driven brewing for continuous improvement
You consider yourself a craft brewer. But what does that actually mean? If you ask us: an unconditional commitment to quality, brewing to make beer just a little bit better every time. When you test regularly, you're not only safeguarding the quality of your brewery's beer. This approach also generates valuable information: data that is worth its weight in gold when you want to continuously improve your recipes and processes. You can do this by measuring yourself with Beer-o-Meter or by making use of Testing as a Service.
Data-driven brewing is the craft of the future. Integrating that data-driven approach into your workflow helps you as a brewer to keep making your beers a little bit better, time after time. So that your brewery's beer stands out and delivers a pleasant surprise in a competitive market.
Want to find out more about what Testing as a Service can do for you? Get in touch with us and we'll schedule a no-obligation conversation.