How One Brewery Cut Draft Beer Loss From 20% to Under 6%

Brent Reynard is the founder of Draft Control, a software platform that helps bars and breweries track and cut draft beer loss, and the owner of Laguna Beer Company in Southern California. After years of running his own brewery without measuring keg-by-keg loss, Reynard discovered he was losing about 20% of every keg before it reached a paying customer — a number he's since brought down to under 6%.

On this episode, Brent joins host Patricia Mejia to break down the real math behind draft loss: how to calculate pour cost, why foam (not bad luck) causes most of it, and how a same-day alert on an abnormal keg can catch a bad coupler before it costs hundreds of dollars. He also shares the exact numbers behind swapping happy-hour discounts for bigger pours — a change he estimates is worth close to $50,000 a year to his bottom line.

Get a summary of the interview on the GoTab blog at How to Cut Draft Beer Loss by 70%.