Unlike food and cocktail recipes, beer can be mapped directly to the product in Garde. No recipe required.
To get started, head to Accounting > PMIX Mapping. Make sure you’ve completed your PMIX Setup first. Set your filters at the top of the page so you can see the POS buttons you need to work with.
Draft vs. bottled beer — the key difference: Bottled beer maps 1:1 (one button press = one bottle sold). Draft beer requires a scale because each pour is only a fraction of a keg. This is the most important thing to get right when mapping beer. Mix up the scale and your theoretical usage numbers will be way off.
Mapping a Bottle of Beer
Let’s start with the straightforward one.
You don’t need a recipe for bottled beer (or kegs, for that matter). Recipes are only required when a single POS button uses more than one product.
- Triple-click the field in the Recipe/Product column next to the beer you want to map.
- Type the product name and select it from the dropdown.
Once selected, you’ll see the unit of measure in the Unit column and how much was purchased in the selected date range in the Purchased column.
On the right side of the screen, you’ll see the scale. This tells Garde how much of the product gets used every time that POS button is pressed. For a bottle of beer, the scale stays at 1 — every time someone orders an Alaskan Amber, one bottle of Alaskan Amber Btl is marked as sold in the theoretical report.
Mapping Draft Beer
The steps are the same as bottled beer, with one important difference: the scale.
- Triple-click the Recipe/Product field next to the draft beer button.
- Type and select the correct keg product.
- Set the scale.
A 16oz pour is not a full keg, so you need to tell Garde what fraction of the keg each pour represents. The default scale is 1, but for a 16oz pour from a 1/2 BBL keg, the correct scale is 0.008065.
You can find the right scale using the PMIX Mapping Scales reference or the table below.
Here’s an example of the PMIX Mapping screen after several kegs have been mapped:
Quick Reference: Draft Beer Scales by Keg Size
Below are the most common keg sizes and pour sizes. Find your pour size on the left and your keg size across the top.
| Pour Size (ounces) | 1/2 BBL | 1/4 BBL | 1/6 BBL | 50L |
|---|
| 1 | 0.00050 | 0.00101 | 0.00151 | 0.00059 |
| 2 | 0.00101 | 0.00201 | 0.00303 | 0.00118 |
| 3 | 0.00151 | 0.00302 | 0.00454 | 0.00178 |
| 4 | 0.00202 | 0.00403 | 0.00605 | 0.00237 |
| 5 | 0.00252 | 0.00504 | 0.00756 | 0.00296 |
| 6 | 0.00302 | 0.00604 | 0.00908 | 0.00355 |
| 7 | 0.00353 | 0.00705 | 0.01059 | 0.00414 |
| 8 | 0.00403 | 0.00806 | 0.01210 | 0.00473 |
| 9 | 0.00454 | 0.00906 | 0.01362 | 0.00533 |
| 10 | 0.00504 | 0.01007 | 0.01513 | 0.00592 |
| 12 | 0.00605 | 0.01208 | 0.01815 | 0.00710 |
| 13 | 0.00655 | 0.01309 | 0.01967 | 0.00769 |
| 14 | 0.00706 | 0.01410 | 0.02118 | 0.00828 |
| 15 | 0.00756 | 0.01511 | 0.02269 | 0.00888 |
| 16 | 0.00806 | 0.01611 | 0.02421 | 0.00947 |
| 18 | 0.00907 | 0.01813 | 0.02723 | 0.01065 |
| 20 | 0.01008 | 0.02014 | 0.03026 | 0.01183 |
| 22 | 0.01109 | 0.02216 | 0.03328 | 0.01302 |
| 24 | 0.01210 | 0.02417 | 0.03631 | 0.01420 |
| 32 | 0.01613 | 0.03223 | 0.04841 | 0.01893 |
| 64 | 0.03226 | 0.06445 | 0.09682 | 0.03787 |
