Working document
The Keg Changeover and Menu Sync Checklist
Four stages for staging, swapping and publishing a keg change without a bad pour or a menu that lies to the table by the window.
Free resources
Resources for Running a Taproom Tap Wall
The calculators, comparisons and checklists we hand to taproom managers who want the tap wall and every menu to agree.
This page gathers the parts of TapListLive that are not the software itself: two calculators for keg yield and line cleaning labor, honest comparisons with the other tools a taproom evaluates, and a keg changeover checklist meant to be printed and hung on the walk in door. It also points at The Tap Wall, where the longer field notes on cellar work, draft systems and taproom economics live.
All of it is written for the person actually running a room: eight to forty handles, a cooler that is a little too small, one person on cellar duty, and a Saturday that decides how the month goes. Nothing here needs an account, and everything is built to be usable on a phone with cold wet hands.
Free tools
Free Calculators for Taproom Draft Operations
Two working calculators for the numbers taprooms argue about most: what one keg actually returns, and what clean lines cost in hours.
Comparisons
How TapListLive Compares for Taproom Tap Lists
Three honest comparisons for the person deciding where a taproom tap list lives and what else has to come along with it.
Main guide
The Taproom Open and Close Checklist for Draft, Glass and Gas
It settles what gets checked at open, mid shift and close so the draft system pours right and every menu matches the tap wall all day.
Magazine
The Tap Wall
Field notes on cellar work, draft systems and taproom economics for the people running US brewpubs and taprooms.
About
Who writes all of this
Who writes The Tap Wall, why a blown keg and a stale QR menu turned into a whole product, and how to reach a person about your own draft system.
Keep the keg checklist and the calculators
The printable changeover checklist, both draft calculators and the comparisons stay open with no account behind them, and they are useful whatever software you run. The paid part is the one job paper cannot do, which is making the bar screens, the beer page and the QR cards on the tables agree the moment a coupler comes off. Ask for a demo when that is the part you want handled.