The Boston Beer Company, audited.
5 of ~6 facilities (NA scope)71 dock doors300 trailer spots1 rail-served
We core-sampled 5 of ~5 plants and DCs, The 5 audited sites are Boston Beer's entire company-owned NA production network: 4 breweries plus the Angry Orchard cidery; everything else is contract-brewed.
Network size: Boston Beer Company FY2024 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties (filed Feb 25, 2025): 4 primary company-owned breweries (Boston MA, Cincinnati OH, Milton DE, Breinigsville PA) plus the Walden NY cidery; remaining volume runs through third-party contract breweries. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/949870/000095017025026756/sam-20241228.htm (2024-12-28)
Public audit. Not affiliated with The Boston Beer Company. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited The Boston Beer Company’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
The Boston Beer Company’s stack is connected. The yards never were.
Your TMS runs the road. Your WMS runs the building. The yards are the tier between them, and they were never on the network.
Every truck gets re-keyed, re-queued, and re-found at each step. The lost time lives between the steps, which is why no single tool ever fixed it. The audit below is that gap, measured on your real yards.
A real audited site, played gate→dock→exit on the true yard geometry. Switch sites with the picker.
Cincinnati Brewery - Cincinnati OH
Driver rolls past the gate, looks for instructions on where to drop.
Movement durations are honest floors set by yard geometry; the uplift lands on the wait fields (queue + dispatch + secondary checkpoints). “Today” timings reflect the radios-and-clipboards world; “With YardFlow” reflects the protocol acting end-to-end. We may be wrong about parts of this, your actual numbers will tell us where.
What the handoffs cost across your network, and what removing them is worth
Read from satellite + Street View across all 5 facilities. At a comparable network, Primo Brands cut drop-and-hook turns from ~48 to ~24 min. Set your real volumes and margins in the calculator to put a number on it.
What surprised us reading The Boston Beer Company’s network
Three patterns held across the sites we sampled. None of them show up on a facility list. All of them change how the yard runs.
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Angry Orchard Walden NY is 75.6 acres of cider innovation. Different yard rhythm than the beer plants.
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5 of 5 audited sites run their own dock-handling. Boston Beer never outsourced shipping.
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71 dock doors across 5 audited sites. Premium craft means slow turn, high margin.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with The Boston Beer Company’s audited yards, set your real volumes and margins, and it sizes the opportunity to the dollar.
This deep-dive is the evidence behind the /for/boston-beer-company memo.
Are these your yards?
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you what we found across your yards, you tell us straight where it fits and where it does not. If the call goes well, we talk pilot. If not, you keep the analysis.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@freightroll.com or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake, our founder, joins when it helps.