Published November 5, 2015

SteadyServ Makes Craft Beer a Little Less Mysterious

It’s an age old problem with running bar inventory: how do you keep track of how much is left in the kegs? The old-fashioned way of figuring out when you need to replace kegs was just to pick them up and shake them to see how full they were. For as long as anyone can remember, draft beer has been a game of guesswork, and bar managers have had a hard time trying to ensure that popular kegs don’t run dry at inopportune times.

Now there are new tools that bar managers can use to keep accurate records of how full their kegs are. SteadyServ was created by Steve Hershberger to rationalize the craft beer industry. Hershberger founded a craft brewery called Flat12 Bierworks in 2009, and quickly became horrified by the fact that most bars made their beer purchasing decisions based on hunches rather than hard data. He decided to create a digital beer measuring system that would let barkeeps know exactly how much beer was left in their kegs.

The system, called iKeg, uses sensors that detect the type and count of beer in each keg. This data is then fed to the cloud, where bar managers can access it to make beer purchasing decisions. Hershberger hopes that his new tool will help bar managers reduce waste and price drinks for optimum profitability.

Read the full article here: Solving the Mystery of Craft Beer With Real Data