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Advanced Cicerone® · Keeping and Serving Beer

Rotate inventory

Syllabus Path

Rotation uses FIFO or FEFO logic after the date code has been interpreted correctly for that producer and package. Build an inventory decision from date-code literacy, product velocity, package format, and the beer's freshness risk.

  1. I. Keeping and Serving Beer
  2. C. Beer storage
  3. 2. Rotate inventory

Exam Focus

  • Explain rotate inventory as a service topic within Beer storage.
  • Interpret package dates, best-by dates, delivery records, and style-specific freshness risk when setting stock priority.
  • Design a first-expiring-first-out rotation that prevents old packages from being hidden behind new deliveries and flags beer that should not be served.

Core knowledge

  • Rotation uses FIFO or FEFO logic after the date code has been interpreted correctly for that producer and package.
  • Audits should track package date, best-by date, keg tapping date, storage location, and whether a slow-moving beer needs promotion or removal.
  • Removal thresholds are tighter for hoppy, delicate, unpasteurized, warm-stored, or draft products than for cellar-worthy beer.

Study application

Build an inventory decision from date-code literacy, product velocity, package format, and the beer's freshness risk.

Key Terms

Audits
Audits should track package date, best-by date, keg tapping date, storage location, and whether a slow-moving beer needs promotion or removal.
Removal thresholds
Removal thresholds are tighter for hoppy, delicate, unpasteurized, warm-stored, or draft products than for cellar-worthy beer.

References

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