A Brewer Built Barley.

In 2008, Brian and a couple of buddies pooled their money and mail-ordered a 10-gallon pot, a conical fermenter, and a couple of extract kits — the bare minimum needed for a first batch of beer. They were young, naive, and obsessed with fresh craft beer. The hobby that came out of that order has now spanned 17+ years, two professional brewing jobs, a homebrew-club presidency, his own beer brand (Buddy Brewing Co.), and a long list of competition wins.

The Buddy Brewing tagline is "Beer for Everybuddy"— and that's the same instinct behind Brewlytics.ai. The recommendation engine isn't there to lecture; it's there to make the right pour easier to find for whoever's standing at the bar.

Every brewery Brian worked at had the same problem and a different name for it. Customers came in, they had favorites, they came back — until they didn't. Bartenders remembered the regulars; nobody remembered the rest. New releases went out via Instagram and a one-size-fits-all email blast.

The data was there. Square has every transaction. Bartenders know the patterns. The patterns are real — there's a Hazy IPA crowd, a Pilsner crowd, a sour person who comes in once a month and buys six of whatever's funky. Off-the-shelf loyalty software didn't see any of it. ChatGPT-on-rails saw none of it. Both of them treated craft beer like it was the same as groceries.

Brewlytics.ai is the answer to that — customer memory at brewery scale. It's the work of someone who has spent more time talking to regulars about what they like than building software, and who isn't going to forget which side of the bar Barley is supposed to serve.

Brewlytics helps breweries know customers. Barley helps customers know beer.