JCDigital: Craft Brewery IT Solutions, Consulting, and Software

Products and Services

• Featured Product: Nominal

  

  Nominal Brewing Management, our flagship product, is a state-of-the-art new brewery management platform that we have been working on for almost a year now. Nominal is designed to become a central source of truth for your brewery, and establish a control point from which you can begin automating those tasks that are essential but take your time away from the core of your operations. We are just getting started, but we are so damned excited about where we are going.

  Built on the latest technologies, Nominal starts with absolutely blinding speed, page loads are under one second as a norm. On top of that we deliver top-shelf user experiences from your phone to your desktop. This provides a foundation for an ever-growing list of features. We know you'll love it, and we would love for you to join us and help build the future.

  We designed Nominal to become the hub of your operation, centralizing your data and helping to reduce friction in your day. Our goal isn't to try and force a new flow on your brewery. Instead, we aim to be the toolbox that adapts to you and frees up critical staff for the real work of running a brewery. We are committed to working every day to expand features and cut out the menial work. Technology should support you, not fight you or try to replace you.

  More Information @ https://brewnominal.app/

• Capital Projects

  

  You have a business to run, and taking on major capital projects like a brewhouse expansion or significant facility repair makes it nearly impossible to maintain that essential focus. That's where we step in as your representative and advocate.

  We understand that your leadership team's time is best spent on operations and strategy, not bogged down in the minutiae of construction and vendor management. We offer decades of experience in large, complex organizations, including engineering executive roles in Fortune 500 companies working with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Our experience helps us bring a level of oversight and sophisticated management to your brewery's projects that is typically reserved for much larger corporations.

  Acting as your agent, we ensure your project is executed efficiently, within budget, and to your specifications. We advocate for your interests and keep the project focused on your realities. Our primary objective is to act as the conduit between your vision and the contractors, ensuring clear communication, proactive problem-solving, and strict adherence to timelines, change management procedures, and quality standards. By entrusting us with the management of your capital project, you gain a powerful advocate who ensures the project is not only successfully completed, but also allows your team to remain focused on running and growing your core business.

• Business Continuity Planning

  

  With decades of experience running mission-critical financial services organizations — the engines that literally power the American economy — our leadership team understands business continuity better than most. This high-stakes background means we don't just create a binder for your shelf; we develop battle-tested strategies designed to keep your business operating under extreme pressure.

  For a brewery, an interruption is more than a missed sale; it's the risk of losing an entire fermentation and cellaring operation to a cooling failure, prolonged downtime and loss of cash flow due to a systems outage, or the prolonged closure of your taproom after an incident. Whether the threat is a technology interruption, a major equipment failure, the loss of key staff, or facility damage from storms, you need a robust, actionable plan to deal with these business interruptions.

  We don't just identify risks; we help you build resilience across your entire operation. Our service meets the unique challenges of the brewing industry, including supply chain disruption, critical utilities failure (power, water, refrigeration), and brewhouse system recovery. We work closely with your team to conduct a thorough Business Impact Analysis (BIA), define your Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and document clear, step-by-step procedures for every conceivable scenario. This includes cross-training plans to mitigate the loss of key staff and detailed communication strategies to manage media and customer expectations. By partnering with us, you are not just acquiring a plan—you are acquiring the assurance that when the inevitable disruption occurs, your team will have the clear guidance and practiced procedures necessary to minimize downtime and secure your long-term success.

• Information Technology Services

  

  With over 30 years of experience in the information technology space, we bring enterprise-grade experience to your brewing business. We handle nearly any technology need a brewery may face, from the front-of-house consumer experience to the critical services that support your brewery operations. Our expertise spans financial software integration, secure and robust networking, reliable point-of-sale (POS) systems, secure payment processing, and sophisticated operations management and system monitoring. This means we don't just fix problems; we architect a cohesive, end-to-end IT environment designed for efficiency and sized for your needs and your budget. We can cover it all, starting with the basics — from setting up your professional website and secure email — to designing the core infrastructure and control systems that drive your automation plans.

  For your tap room, we can help design and implement high-performance WiFi networks that provide seamless internet access for your customers, all while establishing secure segmentation to protect your POS and critical business systems. This clear separation ensures that your payments, inventory, and brewing operations data remain completely isolated and secure. We can work with internet providers to build redundant connectivity so your operations don't go down when your internet provider has an issue, and we can install the continuous system monitoring required to prevent small glitches from becoming costly operational failures. We have extensive experience in building and supporting systems that are not just functional, but are a stable, secure, and scalable.

• Custom Software Development

  

  While there are plenty of companies offering custom software development, our service is fundamentally different: we specialize in your industry because we are brewers ourselves. Our team has hands-on experience brewing at every scale, from home-brew setups up to craft breweries producing thousands of barrels per year. This means we don't just write code; we develop operational solutions that are intuitively designed for the daily realities of the cellar and the brewhouse. Whether you need a custom integration to streamline data flow with an existing ERP system like Nominal, or you require a complete custom control system for your brewery, we build tools that directly enhance yield, consistency, and profitability.

  Our expertise goes beyond typical IT services to encompass the highly specialized world of brewing automation. We intimately understand system operation, control automation, equipment instrumentation, and the critical need for precise monitoring. This allows us to develop custom software that not only integrates your disparate systems—from grain handling to tank fermentation—but also provides your team with a centralized, reliable, and user-friendly interface. The result is a system that speaks the language of brewing, reducing errors, improving batch traceability, and giving you unparalleled control over the quality of your product. By partnering with us, you gain a development team that views your project not as a technical challenge, but as an opportunity to engineer a better beer-making process.

• Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

  

  When a key system fails, it's more than a minor setback—it's a critical business event that halts production, jeopardizes product quality, and rapidly wastes capital. We specialize in diagnosing these mission-critical system failures, offering an affordable, end-to-end service specifically designed for small and mid-sized breweries that cannot afford the thousands charged by large contracting firms for initial, often inconclusive, diagnostics. Our deep cross-industry experience allows us to rapidly cut through the complexity of integrated systems—whether the fault lies with process controls, networking, automation, or utility infrastructure—to provide clarity when you need it most.

  We don't just identify a problem; we deliver a precise and prioritized remediation plan. Our process is designed to be thorough: we narrow down complex issues and categorize the necessary corrective actions into critical (stop-the-bleeding) steps and secondary (long-term resilience) steps. This clear, actionable roadmap ensures you have the immediate direction needed to minimize downtime. We then work directly as your expert liaison, collaborating with your established vendors or assisting you in sourcing new, qualified partners. By delivering expert diagnosis and concrete planning, we ensure problems are resolved efficiently and completely, restoring production and preparing your operation for future stability.