CraftBrew: Experiences of developing a low-cost brewery management system with cloud-based simulation

This paper describes on-going work that aims to support decision making in the Craft Brewing, or Microbrewing, industry, a major SME sector in Europe and North America. The aim is to assist Craft Brewers to ensure that their products are consumed in an optimum time window. We previously demonstrated how cloud-based simulation could provide low cost access to simulation using a template approach based on the CloudSME Simulation Platform. In this paper we give an overview of CraftBrew, the whole brewery management system that we are building around the cloud-based simulation approach to support other aspects of the brewing process.