The Vapour SaaS platform delivers solutions and services across production, maturation, and finished goods Spirit Producers, Warehouse Operators, Cask Managers, and Bottlers.
Explore Vapour’s unique features and see how your role can benefit from digitising operations end-to-end, from crop to cask to case
As a Distillery Manager, you’re managing multiple competing priorities every day. From balancing everyday challenges like planning your team’s priorities, production planning and keeping on top of inventory of your raw materials, managing your mashing, fermentation and distillation processes. Vapour has you covered.
Vapour’s unique approach means your team are empowered to record all details of your milling, mashing, fermentation and distillation activities as they go along. No re-keying of paper or spreadsheet records to get a picture of your production output.
Using the in-built recipe tools means you can help keep your team on track at every stage of production.
Understanding performance trends, mashing and fermentation efficiency is built into Vapour’s analysis tools, allowing you to compare mash-by-mash and distillations run-by-run.
Extend your analysis even further via Vapour’s API Integration Portal to push data to your favoured Business Intelligence tools, such as Power BI. The Vapour team can also offer Insights & Analytics services to add further intelligence to your Vapour production data.
Get in touch if you’d like to discuss how Vapour can help you in your role.
Vapour empowers Distillery Managers with real-time, data-driven production insights, improving efficiency and decision-making. By capturing key metrics across mashing, fermentation, and distillation, Vapour provides a clear view of production performance, raw material usage, and process efficiencies. With the Vapour Insights & Analytics service, managers can access advanced reporting, trend analysis, and performance benchmarking, helping to optimise yield, reduce losses, and enhance spirit consistency. From batch tracking to efficiency metrics, Vapour transforms production data into actionable insights, enabling better planning and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance and quality control at every stage of the process.
Vapour simplifies compliance reporting for Distillery Managers, ensuring accurate, real-time tracking of production, maturation, and bottling data. It automates the generation of key regulatory reports, such as customs and excise duty reports, production records, and inventory tracking, reducing manual effort and minimising errors. With built-in compliance checks, Vapour helps ensure that all operations align with industry regulations, providing full traceability from raw materials to finished spirits. Its secure, audit-ready data means managers can quickly respond to inspections and reporting requirements with confidence. By streamlining compliance, Vapour allows distilleries to focus on efficiency and quality without regulatory stress.
Unrivalled visibility, traceability and accessibility. For distillers, for cask managers, for bottlers, for investors. Every action in Vapour has a detailed audit trail to support your compliance or quality management needs
Plan your team's work with smart task management - allocate cask operations such as regauging, sampling, re-racking, filling & disgorging directly to your team member's handheld device
Automatic calculation of duty payments due on samples and movement of stock out of bonded areas
Flexible inventory reporting by warehouse location, zone, cask type, customer
Exportable to many formats, including PDF and Excel, you can even check historic inventory to interrogate stock movements!
Intelligently add tags to your spirit as you produce it for retrieval later in your spirit's life. Add details of the field your barley came from or comment on the weather.
The tags you add will live along the way as your spirit makes its journey to a warehouse or a bottle. You're a simple search or click away from finding this and any similar records with the same tag
Track and trace spirit batches to their final destination in a bottle. Whether that's via a maturation process or not, be able to track and trace batches all the way back to the materials intake and any "tags" added along the way
No more wrangling dozens of paper records or spreadsheets. Generate Spirit Production reports instantly to understand your distillery's production output at the touch of a button, covering both performance tracking and compliance reporting, such as HMRC W21 submissions
With our in-built dip chart/strapping table tools, save your operators time and improve accuracy when dipping vessels for weekly spirit accounting
Manage your Mash/Cook, Fermentation and Distillation recipes in a simple, easy-to-use designer tool. Guide your operators throughout the production process with pre-defined guidelines on assets, volumes, temperatures, etc. Pre-plan production or archive unused recipes to keep your production team on track
Plan your Spirit Production weeks for the year. Define your mashing and fermentation weeks and the cross-over to distillation weeks. Drive reporting and materials usage based on both calendar and mashing and production weeks
Manage your suppliers and track how their products are used throughout your production and bottling processes. Recall with ease using the built-in provenance features of Vapour to track and trace exactly what element was used, where and when
We know Spirit Production can be disrupted by breakdowns and other issues. Vapour's issue recording allows you to record instances of downtime linked to a process, such as Mashing and define a reason and duration for the downtime, allowing issue resolution tracking and root cause analysis
The stock reminder feature alerts you when inventory levels fall below predefined thresholds, helping to prevent production disruption and ensuring timely replenishment
Streamline contract distilling, maturation services for cask owners, and bottling for both B2B and B2C customers, ensuring seamless communication, accurate tracking, and tailored service at every stage
Let Vapour do the hard work for you. Automatic tracking of raw materials used during Production, such as grain, yeast & botanicals. Track dry goods and spirit inventory used during bottling and sales fulfilment of finished goods
No need to add-on additional costs for premium features such as barcode printing and scanning. Vapour has these features built-in. With our extensive product development roadmap, be assured that as soon as new features are added, as a subscriber to the service, you automatically receive the latest features.
