Understanding Your Brewery's Health - Diagnosing Quality and Efficiency Issues Using Data
The 5th Ingredient was founded in San Diego, California in October 2017 by Pulkit K. Agrawal (PKA). PKA graduated from Harvard College and began working in the beer industry as a Process Engineer at Ballast Point Brewing, where he focused on packaging lines and nitrogen beer. Afterwards, PKA began consulting for breweries and during this time he saw a clear need in the market for a software system that would track all brewery data from grain-to-glass, with a particular focus on the brewer and process data. He launched the Beer30 system in January 2018, and it has scaled since, with more software development and more brewery customers! Now, Beer30 has modules that help a brewery track raw materials, brewing process, sales and distribution, and cost calculations with accounting integration. It has become a system with over 150 breweries globally!