Features · Digital Displays
TV menus that don't go blank — and look like your taproom.
Two things break brewery TV menus: they drop to a blank screen when the Wi-Fi blips mid-service, and they all look like the platform, not the brewery. Brewlytics displays fix both — offline-cached so the screen never goes white, and AI-generated backgrounds so your menu looks like you designed it.
No blank screens
Offline cache keeps the menu up through Wi-Fi drops
8 style presets
AI-generated backgrounds, brewery-branded, not templated
POS-synced
Tap a new beer in Square; the screen updates itself
Included in Pro
No menu fees, no per-screen charges
The blank-screen problem, solved
A white TV where your tap list should be — during a 200-person Saturday — is the kind of thing that makes operators rip out a menu tool. It happens because most displays run a live web page in a TV browser that has nothing to fall back on when the connection drops.
Offline-cached menu
The display stores your current menu on the device. If the internet blips, the screen keeps showing your beers — it doesn't go blank waiting to reconnect.
Clear reconnecting state
When the connection drops, a small, unobtrusive 'reconnecting' indicator appears — not a white screen. Most customers never notice anything happened.
Kiosk-mode resilient
Built to run unattended on a Fire TV stick or similar, all day, without a staffer babysitting it or reloading the page.
Auto-updating tap list
Driven by your Square POS — tap a beer, 86 a keg, and the screen reflects it on its own. Discontinued kegs hide; new releases appear.
AI-generated backgrounds
Describe the vibe. Get a display that looks like your taproom.
The most common complaint about template-based menu tools is that every brewery's screen looks the same. Brewlytics takes a different path: pick a style, add a one-line tweak, and the system generates a custom background built specifically for a menu display — quiet where your text sits, characterful everywhere else.
Pick a style preset
Rustic farmhouse, industrial taproom, vintage hop garden, minimalist black, neon dive bar, Scandinavian modern, dark academia, hazy dreamscape. Eight to start, each tuned for menu legibility.
Add a one-line tweak
Optional. 'Warmer lighting,' 'more copper accents,' 'softer background.' The system folds your direction into the generation without breaking the layout safe zones.
Generate, preview, apply
See your actual menu layout rendered over the candidate background before you commit — then apply it to the live screen. A bad generation never trashes your current look.
Generated backgrounds are layout-aware: the regions where beer names, prices, and ABVs appear are kept visually quiet, and a tunable readability scrim keeps text legible over busy imagery. You describe the look; the system protects the readability.
Template menu vs. Brewlytics display
Where a brewery-built display differs from a generic one — on the two things that actually matter during service.
| During a busy night | Typical template menu | Brewlytics display |
|---|---|---|
| Wi-Fi drops for 30 seconds | Blank white screen until reloaded | Keeps showing the cached menu; quiet 'reconnecting' note |
| Look and feel | Looks like the platform's template | AI-generated background branded to your taproom |
| Tap change | Often manual menu editing | Auto-synced from your Square POS |
| Discontinued keg | Lingers until you remove it | Hides itself automatically |
| Cost | Separate menu fee, sometimes per screen | Included with Brewlytics Pro |
One feature of the platform — not the whole product
A digital menu is table stakes. The reason it's worth running on Brewlytics rather than a standalone menu tool is that the same POS connection driving your display also builds a taste profile for every customer — which powers the AI bartender, taste-segmented release alerts, loyalty, and analytics. The screen on the wall and the customer relationship behind it run on one system.
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Digital display FAQ
Put a display up that survives Saturday night.
Start free, connect your Square account, and see your tap list on a branded, reliable display — with the rest of the platform behind it when you're ready.