How to get breweries and bars working properly

[mfearby]

I have a brewery which I'm managing to keep supplied steadily with hops and wheat, but the first bar I linked to it gets all the beer and the 2nd and 3rd bars get nothing.

The brewery's output storage is set to a medium storage nearby but it never gets any beer. I thought, maybe I have to set the storage tank as its output storage, but it won't allow that. The storage tank sits next to the brewery, empty, so I don't know how to make them work.

All my craftsmen are now complaining they're not near a bar, but I can't keep the bars supplied with beer. This feels like a bug to me.

[CSBoecker]

Try setting that storage tank as the output of your brewery. As far as I know, a Medium Storage can't hold beer.

I tend to set up my brewery at the edge of town, as it lowers the desirability of the area around it. Since it's far away from the bars, I put a storage tank towards the middle of town and set the brewery to output there. Or I leave the output blank and use couriers to move the beer from the brewery to the central tank(s). Then I set that tank as the input for the bars. One brewery should be able to supply 3 bars. Do note that a single bar may greedily take all the beer available until its internal storage is full. That may mean you'll need full stores of beer before opening a 3rd bar and letting it take its stock.

Also note that that storage tank has be constructed separately of the warehouse system. You have to build it without having the warehouse selected, otherwise it'll be assumed to be used for Diesel or Jet Fuel.

[mfearby]

I tried to make the adjacent storage tank the output for the brewery last night and it wouldn't let me, but it is now. I don't know whether it's worth the bother having breweries. Craftsmen seem to get by just fine without them until you add one, and then they all complain, and they become a nightmare to maintain, LOL