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Cellar Training Checklist
The checklist (4 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Cellar & Tanks station in the Brewery / Taproom starter set, filed under Cellar, and every item here is editable.
- 1Followed the transfer procedure without shortcutsCritical
- 2Logged gravities and temperatures on scheduleMust pass
- 3Cleaned and sanitized tanks and hoses to standardCritical
- 4Handled chemicals with the right PPECritical
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What usually goes wrong
Three critical items and all three are procedural. This is a station where nothing about the work signals that a step was skipped, so the sign-off has to rest on observed method rather than on the result looking normal.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Followed the transfer procedure without shortcuts
- Cleaned and sanitized tanks and hoses to standard
- Handled chemicals with the right PPE
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this station: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Cellar & Tanks specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Other brewery / taproom checklists
The rest of the set, if you are building out the whole floor rather than one position.
Common questions
Should cellar work be signed off separately from brewing?
Yes. They share vocabulary and almost nothing else. Cellar competence is transfer discipline, cleaning standards and chemical handling, and someone can be a capable brewer while being genuinely unsafe on a hose and a caustic tank.
What should be on a cellar checklist?
The 4 items above cover it: followed the transfer procedure without shortcuts, logged gravities and temperatures on schedule, cleaned and sanitized tanks and hoses to standard, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this station, 3 items are marked critical: followed the transfer procedure without shortcuts; cleaned and sanitized tanks and hoses to standard; handled chemicals with the right ppe. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Cellar & Tanks checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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