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-# Brewery index redesign — data gaps
+# Brewery index — data requirements
 
-Frontend for the new `/breweries` layout is integrated with real data wherever the API already supports it. These gaps are filled with lorem-ipsum-style filler until the backend catches up:
+`/breweries` (`app/features/breweries/routes/breweries.tsx`) is built and live. This document inventories every piece of data the page needs, section by section: what's already wired to real data, what's filler pending backend work, and what the backend would need to add to close each gap.
 
-- **Featured brewery** — no "editorially flagged" concept exists (no field, no endpoint). Currently defaults to the most recently created brewery. Needs a real flag (e.g. `IsFeatured` + an admin toggle, or a rotation query) plus the "week" cadence implied by the "THIS WEEK" badge.
-- **Brewery tagline / one-line note** — `SimplifiedBreweryDto` (used by both `/locations` and `/locations/nearby`) has no description-like field. The nearby list and recently-added cards use filler note text. Needs a short field added to that DTO (or a truncated `Description`).
-- **Founded year, beers listed count, house style** — none of these exist anywhere in the domain (`BreweryPost` has no founding date or style; there's no beer-count aggregate; `Features.Beers` has no query handlers at all yet). Featured card stats are entirely filler.
-- **Total brewery count** — no lightweight count endpoint. CTA copy ("All N partner breweries...") uses a filler number rather than an unbounded fetch just to count rows. Needs something like `GET /api/brewery/count`.
-- **Distance** is computed client-side (Haversine) from the coordinates `/locations/nearby` already returns — no backend change needed there.
-- **Manual location entry** — "Change location" button re-requests browser geolocation only; there's no geocoding/place-search endpoint to resolve a typed address, so free-text entry isn't wired up yet.
+## Status legend
+
+- ✅ **Available** — real data, already wired up.
+- ⚠️ **Partial** — an endpoint exists but is missing a field the design needs.
+- ❌ **Missing** — no backend support at all; page currently shows filler.
+
+## 1. Page header
+
+Static copy only. No data.
+
+## 2. Featured brewery
+
+| Field | Status | Current source | Gap |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Name, description, address, location | ✅ | `GET /api/brewery` (`BreweryDto`) | — |
+| "Editorially featured" selection | ❌ | none — defaults to the most recently created brewery | No `IsFeatured` flag or rotation concept anywhere in `BreweryPost`. Needs a field + an admin toggle, or a scheduled rotation query, to back the "THIS WEEK" cadence the badge implies. |
+| Founded year | ❌ | none | `BreweryPost` has no founding date. Would need a new column (distinct from `CreatedAt`, which is post-creation time, not the brewery's actual founding). |
+| Beers listed count | ❌ | none | No beer-count aggregate exists. Blocked on the beers gap below. |
+| House style | ❌ | none | No style/tag field on `BreweryPost`, and no aggregate over its beers' styles either. |
+
+## 3. Breweries near you
+
+| Field | Status | Current source | Gap |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Nearby breweries by coordinates + radius | ✅ | `GET /api/brewery/locations/nearby?latitude&longitude&rangeInMetres` | — |
+| Distance from search center | ✅ | Computed client-side (Haversine) from the coordinates the endpoint already returns | — |
+| One-line note / tagline per brewery | ❌ | none | `SimplifiedBreweryDto` (used by both `/locations` and `/locations/nearby`) has no description-like field. List and map-popup text use filler. Needs either a short tagline field or a truncated `Description` added to that DTO. |
+| User's current location | ✅ | Browser Geolocation API | — |
+| Fallback region (before permission granted / on denial) | ⚠️ | Falls back to the featured brewery's own coordinates as a proxy center | Works, but isn't a deliberate "default region." A real deployment likely wants a configured default (e.g. per-tenant HQ city) rather than borrowing the featured brewery's location. |
+| Manual location entry ("Change location") | ❌ | Re-requests browser geolocation only | No geocoding/place-search endpoint exists to resolve a typed address or city name to coordinates. |
+| Search radius | ✅ | Client-side state (10–150 km slider), passed straight through to `rangeInMetres` | — |
+
+## 4. Recently added
+
+| Field | Status | Current source | Gap |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Newest breweries, name/city/description | ✅ | `GET /api/brewery` (already sorted newest-first) | — |
+
+No gaps — this section is fully real.
+
+## 5. Directory CTA
+
+| Field | Status | Current source | Gap |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Total partner brewery count | ❌ | Filler number (`128`) | No lightweight count endpoint. Needs something like `GET /api/brewery/count` rather than fetching the full unbounded list just to measure it. |
+| Filter by country / region / beer style | ❌ | Copy only — not implemented | This is CTA copy describing the destination directory page's future capability, not a data need of this page itself. Tracked here because it implies the directory page will eventually need country/region/style filter params. |
+
+## Cross-cutting: the Beers feature is empty
+
+`Features.Beers` (backend) has a `.csproj` and nothing else — no query handlers, no controller, no DTOs. `BeerPost` exists as a domain entity (with `BrewedById` linking to `BreweryPost`) but nothing exposes it over the API. This blocks:
+- "Beers listed" count on the featured card.
+- "House style" (would likely aggregate from a brewery's beers' `BeerStyle`).
+- Any future beer-style filter on the directory.
+
+## Summary of backend work to fully close the gaps
+
+1. `IsFeatured` flag (or equivalent rotation query) on `BreweryPost`.
+2. `FoundedYear` (or similar) column on `BreweryPost`.
+3. A short tagline/note field on `BreweryPost`, surfaced through `SimplifiedBreweryDto`.
+4. Stand up `Features.Beers` — at minimum a query to count beers per brewery and read their styles.
+5. `GET /api/brewery/count`.
+6. A geocoding/place-search endpoint for manual location entry.
+7. (Product decision, not code) a configured default region to fall back to instead of the featured brewery's coordinates.