# Cellaring Kegs

Cellaring kegs are used to hold unfinished beer outside of a tank before it is packaged, moved into a cask, or blended into a barrel-aged batch.

Use cellaring kegs when beer needs to leave the fermenter or brite tank, but should not yet be counted as finished packaged inventory.

# How Cellaring Kegs Work

A cellaring keg represents one unfinished keg-use unit. It is not a physical keg asset record and does not replace tracked keg or cask vessels.

The typical flow is:

Brew, ferment, or transfer the source batch as usual.
Record a transfer into cellaring kegs on the source batch.
Use those available cellaring kegs later as a source for one of the supported workflows.

Cellaring kegs can have these statuses:

Available: unfinished beer is still available for use.
Consumed: the keg has been used for packaging, cask filling, or a barrel-aged batch blend.
Voided: the source transfer was corrected or removed before the keg was consumed.

# Creating Cellaring Kegs

Cellaring kegs are created from the source batch.

Open the source batch.
Go to the packaging and cellar logs area.
Add a cellaring keg transfer.
Enter the transfer date, format, quantity, and notes.
Save the batch.

If the transfer quantity is 4, the system creates four available cellaring keg units behind the scenes. The batch still shows one transfer line so the entry and edit workflow stays compact.

If you reduce or remove a transfer later, the system voids unused surplus keg units. If a keg from that transfer has already been consumed, the correction is blocked so downstream inventory and reporting history stays intact.

# Viewing Cellaring Kegs

Cellaring kegs appear in Production -> Cellar below the tank map.

The Cellar view groups available cellaring kegs by source batch, so the view stays compact. A grouped row shows the batch link and format counts instead of listing every keg unit separately.

# Treatment Kegs

Treatment kegs are packaged kegs made from a base beer held in cellaring kegs. Use this for small release variants that add fruit, spices, vanilla, coffee, or other adjuncts without creating a full new brew.

# Package Treatment Kegs

Open the batch that created the cellaring kegs.
Add a keg package log.
Choose Cellaring Kegs as the package source.
Select the available cellaring keg units to package.
Select the beer name that should receive finished inventory.
Confirm or turn on the Treatment classification.
Add treatment notes when useful.
Save the batch.

When cellaring kegs are selected as the package source, the package quantity is calculated from the selected keg count. This keeps the selected source units and the package quantity aligned.

Treatment keg package logs still create finished packaged inventory. They are included in normal packaged volume, production reporting, inventory, and compliance-facing totals. The treatment classification is additional metadata that allows treatment volume to be viewed separately.

# Reporting Treatment Kegs

Treatment keg volume appears in:

Package logs and finished inventory under the selected package-log beer.
Batch packaged BBLs, together with standard packaged volume.
Batch treatment BBLs, as a separate treatment-only metric.
Packaging summaries, with a Treatment chip and a treatment BBL summary when treatment logs exist.
Production reports, where package classification can be filtered to Show All, Standard, or Treatment.

Use treatment notes to describe the variant, adjuncts, or process details. Future ingredient tracking can build on the package-log treatment classification without relying only on beer names.

# Filling Casks

Cellaring kegs can be used as the unfinished source for filling tracked casks.

Use this when beer is held in temporary kegs before cask conditioning or finishing.

Open the batch that created the cellaring kegs.
Go to vessel logs.
Fill casks from available cellaring keg beer.
Save the batch.

The cask vessel workflow continues to manage the physical cask, its status, measurements, additions, and lifecycle. The cellaring keg represents the unfinished beer source before the cask becomes finished beer or is placed on tap.

# Blending Into Barrel-Aged Batches

Cellaring kegs can also be selected as source beer for barrel-aged batches.

Use this when blending clean or young beer from cellaring kegs with barrel-aged beer during transfer into a brite tank.

Create a new batch.
Choose the barrel-aged source workflow.
Enter the transfer date.
Select the facility and brite tank.
Select full barrels available on or before the transfer date.
Select available cellaring kegs transferred on or before the transfer date.
Schedule the batch.

The selected cellaring kegs are consumed by the barrel-aged batch. Packaging from that batch then proceeds from the brite tank using normal package logs.

For reporting and yield, the system treats the selected barrels and cellaring kegs as the production source volume for the barrel-aged batch. This keeps yield calculations aligned with the actual beer transferred into the batch rather than using brewhouse hot-side volume.

# Inventory and Compliance Behavior

Cellaring kegs are unfinished beer and do not create finished inventory by themselves.

Finished beer inventory is created only when a package log is recorded or when a tracked vessel workflow reaches the finished inventory state. This means:

Transferring beer into cellaring kegs does not increase finished inventory.
Packaging treatment kegs from cellaring kegs does increase finished inventory.
The finished inventory beer comes from the package log's selected beer, which may differ from the source batch beer.
Treatment kegs remain included in normal production and compliance volume unless you intentionally filter reports by package classification.

# Correcting Mistakes

If a cellaring keg transfer was entered incorrectly, edit the source batch and adjust the transfer line.

Unused surplus kegs are voided automatically.
Already consumed kegs cannot be silently removed.
Package logs that no longer use a selected cellaring keg release that source keg back to available when the batch is saved.

This preserves auditability while still allowing practical correction of unused cellar transfers.

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