Vapour Brochure
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What is Vapour?
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
Master Distiller
How Vapour can help you
For a Master Distiller, precision and control over every stage of production are essential to crafting high-quality spirits. Vapour streamlines spirit production from raw materials to the finished bottle, offering powerful tools for managing recipes, tracking efficiencies, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability efforts.
Vapour provides full flexibility in managing raw materials, including malt, grain, and other ingredients before mashing. Master Distillers can specify grain varieties, monitor supplier quality, and track ingredient usage to maintain consistency in their spirits. The platform also records key metrics such as moisture content and predicted spirit yield (PSY), helping to optimise raw material efficiency and reduce waste.
During Production, Vapour’s intuitive interface makes it easy for operators to follow step-by-step mashing and distillation instructions, ensuring processes run smoothly. Helpful tools to support data recording reduces errors and provides real-time insights into fermentation progress, distillation output, and yield efficiency - eliminating the need for cumbersome spreadsheets or convoluted forms on ERP systems.
A standout feature is Vapour’s ability to track efficiencies and spirit character throughout production. Each batch’s unique qualities - such as distillation cut points, the craftspeople involved, and strength are recorded, following the spirit into maturation and even into the finished bottle. This comprehensive tracking ensures full traceability, enabling Master Distillers to refine recipes over time and maintain exceptional quality.
Vapour also supports regulatory compliance, helping distilleries adhere to excise duty regulations, derived from UK HMRC record-keeping requirements, and broader international industry standards. Detailed audit trails and automated reporting simplify compliance, reducing administrative burdens. Additionally, Vapour’s tracking capabilities promote sustainable production by identifying inefficiencies, minimising waste, and supporting responsible resource management – as well as granular production tracking supporting the requirements for B Corp Certified organisations.
With Vapour, Master Distillers gain a powerful, easy-to-use tool that enhances control, ensures compliance, improves efficiency, and supports sustainable, high-quality spirit production.
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Key Vapour Features
Production Insights
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.
Recipe Management
Vapour’s recipe management ensures distillery operators follow precise grain bills, mashing, fermentation, and distillation guidelines for consistent spirit production. By standardising processes, Vapour helps maintain quality control and ensures every batch adheres to the distillery’s exact specifications. Operators can access detailed recipes, including grain ratios, yeast types, fermentation times, and distillation cuts, reducing errors and improving efficiency. The system also provides historical tracking, allowing for refinements over time while ensuring compliance with production standards. With Vapour, distilleries can optimise workflow, preserve heritage techniques, and maintain product consistency across all production runs
Traceability
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
Production Issue Management
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
Spirit Tagging
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
Batch Tracking
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
Spirit Production Report
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
Recipe Management
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
Production Week Planning
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
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