Case Study: The Brewer’s Cabinet achieves 25-minute inventories and lower pour costs with BevSpot

How Derrick brought his inventory time down from 3 hours weighing bottles to 25 minutes with BevSpot

The Brewer’s Cabinet is a nano-brewpub in Reno, Nevada, focused on unique beers, a fresh local menu, and building a home-brewing community. Owner Chris struggled to keep accurate inventory records and wanted a faster, more detailed way to track usage and variance, so he tasked new GM Derrick with implementing a better system.

They moved from spreadsheets to BevSpot, an easy-to-set-up inventory and reporting platform, and began taking counts on an iPad in shelf order. Within weeks inventory time fell from about three hours of weighing bottles to roughly 25 minutes, liquor cost dropped from around 15% to about 13% (overall pour cost 18–19%), variance declined significantly, and the team gained clearer insights to reduce loss and make data-driven decisions.

The Brewer’s Cabinet

Derrick Van Der Jagt

General Manager