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Keg Yield, Pours and Pour Cost Calculator
Enter your keg cost, keg size, pour size, menu price and loss rate and see what one keg actually returns behind the bar.
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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.
Taprooms argue about two numbers more than any others. The first is what a keg is really worth once foam, tasters and the heel you cannot serve are taken out of the 1,984 ounces a half barrel is supposed to hold. The second is what it costs in labor hours to keep every line clean enough that your beer tastes the way the brewer intended.
Both calculators run in your browser with your own numbers and nothing is sent anywhere. The defaults are set for a twenty handle taproom pouring sixteen ounce glasses on a two week cleaning cycle, so the page shows a real answer before you touch anything. Replace them with your figures and watch which assumption moves the result hardest.
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Draft Line Cleaning Time and Labor Planner
Set your line count, minutes per line and cycle length to see what clean draft lines cost your taproom in hours and payroll every year.
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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.
Why these draft calculators ask nothing of you
Every taproom manager already runs this arithmetic by hand, usually in pen on the back of a keg receiving sheet. Ounces in a half barrel divided by the pour your crew actually serves, minus whatever you guess foam, tasters and the blowout heel took. Twenty lines times eight minutes of caustic recirculation, plus the half hour it takes to mix solution and break down the pump. Nobody needs an account to do that on paper, so nobody needs one to do it here.
Both calculators run in your browser, and your keg cost, menu price and hourly wage figures stay on your own phone. Take the number into a distributor meeting, into a pricing argument about the ten ounce snifter pour, or into the conversation with an owner who wants to stretch the cleaning cycle to twenty eight days. If that number is all you came for, take it and go pour beer. A calculator that only works after a sales call is not worth the tab it opens.
Now make those keg numbers hold on a Saturday
Pours per keg and annual cleaning hours are only true if the tap wall tells the truth alongside them, and a beer that blew at seven ruins both figures. TapListLive takes one keg change at the cooler door and pushes it to your screens, your beer page and your table QR codes. Ask for a demo and we will load your own handles into it.