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Set up Taps & Taplists

Taps & Taplists is the setup almost everything else leans on. Menus need to know what is pouring, and On Tap needs to know what is ready. Both answers start here.

Taps are physical, taplists are arrangements

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A Tap represents a real tap in your building. A Taplist is a grouping of those taps that a menu can point at.

Keeping them separate is what lets one bar serve several menus. The taps do not move, but the arrangement you publish can — a main list, a seasonal list, a list for the patio bar — without re-describing the hardware every time.

Pour styles are part of the tap

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A tap can be marked as Cask or Nitro. This travels with the tap rather than the beer, because it describes how the beer is being served. A guest reading “nitro” is being told something about the pour, not the recipe, and menus can surface it accordingly.

Draft line cleaning

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Taps carry a Clean Draft Lines record with a Date of Cleaning.

This is here because line cleaning is a schedule nobody remembers reliably and every guest can taste. Recording the date against the tap means the answer to “when did we last clean that line?” lives next to the tap itself rather than in someone’s memory or a clipboard in the back.

What to do next

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