How a Brewery Used Batch Costing to Fix Cash Flow

Cash Flow Conversations with Fexingo: Working Capital, Receivables, and Small Business Finance · Aug 22, 2026 · 6m · transcript

In this episode of Cash Flow Conversations, Lucas and Luna dive into batch costing—a method that helped a craft brewery turn a cash-flow crisis into a steady operation. They follow the story of a small brewery that was profitable on paper but constantly short on cash, and how allocating costs to each batch of beer revealed which products were actually draining the bank account. With specific numbers—like how a 20 percent cost overrun on one flagship IPA was eating up margins—they walk through the practical steps of tracking ingredient costs, labor, and overhead per batch, and how that data…