Seed-to-shelf software · Built in Canada
Every litre, accounted for.
Brewing, winemaking, cellar, packaging, sales, traceability, excise and the provincial boards — in one system built for Canadian breweries, wineries, cideries, meaderies and distilleries.
Private beta. We are onboarding a limited number of Canadian producers, and early partners shape what ships next.
Your week, without the spreadsheet
Everything from the grain order to the excise period, in one place.
BrewCraft is built around the way Canadian producers work, and the rules that apply here.
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Retire the spreadsheets
Brew sheets, cellar logs, packaging tallies, keg lists and the excise workbook become one record, kept as the work happens.
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A mock recall, any afternoon
From one suspect lot to every batch, every finished lot and every customer who received it — traced both ways, through blends.
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Excise duty, under both statutes
Beer under the Excise Act; wine, cider and mead under the Excise Act, 2001. Every litre’s duty status on a ledger that reconciles each period. You review and file.
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No shrinkage left unexplained
Volume in equals volume out plus volume on hand plus recorded loss, at every vessel. Shrinkage is explained, never absorbed.
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Built for all 13 provinces and territories
Board markups, container deposits, stewardship fees and sales tax — per province and territory, each from a dated, sourced table.
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Made for the cellar floor
Big targets and gloves-on input on a tablet by the tanks, so the record is made where the work is done.
Where the work happens
Made for the cellar floor, and for the bar.
Tank to truck
Follow one batch all the way out the door.
Every transfer, every loss, every can and keg, every order and every delivery — recorded by the step that caused it, so nothing needs reconstructing at month end.
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Fermenter FV-3
3,003.0 L in. Transfers, dry hops and losses are recorded as they happen, not reconstructed later.
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Packaging run
2,870.4 L into 4,800 cans and 12 kegs, with 47.6 L of line waste recorded in the same step. Duty is assessed here.
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Finished goods
Two lots, FG-2026-0781 and FG-2026-0782, released by quality and allocated by lot — so every case can be traced.
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Delivery
A provincial board order, a licensee and the taproom, on a route with proof of delivery and the empties coming back.
Illustrative figures from Kettle Creek Brewing Co., a fictional producer.
Traceability
Run a mock recall before you ever need a real one.
Flag a lot and see its whole reach at once: which batches it went into, which finished lots came out, and every place they went.
Suspect lot
ML-2610-A · Canadian 2-row pale malt
Went into batch KC-2026-014. The other four inputs are not implicated and stay out of the recall.
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FG-2026-0781 · 4,800 × 473 mL cans
- Provincial board order 2,880 cans
- On hand 1,908 cans
- QC retention 12 cans
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FG-2026-0782 · 12 × 50 L kegs
- Licensee 8 kegs
- Taproom 2 kegs
- On hand 2 kegs
Illustrative figures from Kettle Creek Brewing Co., a fictional producer.
Excise, under two statutes
Beer duty is assessed at packaging. BrewCraft knows exactly when.
The Excise Act assesses beer when it is packaged, not when it ships or sells, so BrewCraft records duty status at that moment, on a ledger that runs parallel to your inventory, and treats wine, cider and mead under their own statute.
| Event | Volume | Duty status | What it means |
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| Fermenter FV-3 Fermentation complete | 3,003.000 L | Process stock | Process stock. Nothing is assessed yet, and the ledger says so. |
| Process stock. Nothing is assessed yet, and the ledger says so. | |||
| Brite tank BT-2 Transfer · 17.000 L loss recorded | 2,918.000 L | Process stock | Still process stock. 68.000 L stays behind as a measured tank heel. |
| Still process stock. 68.000 L stays behind as a measured tank heel. | |||
| Packaging run 473 mL cans and 50 L kegs · 47.600 L line waste | 2,870.400 L | Assessed | Duty is assessed HERE, on the production day. Not at the sale. Not at the shipment. |
| Duty is assessed HERE, on the production day. Not at the sale. Not at the shipment. | |||
| Finished goods On the pallet, unsold, nobody has ordered it | 2,870.400 L | Assessed | Already assessed, though nobody has ordered it. This is the part people get wrong. |
| Already assessed, though nobody has ordered it. This is the part people get wrong. | |||
| Shipped Provincial board order, 2,880 cans | 1,362.240 L | Assessed | Shipping is not a duty event for beer, so the status does not move. The period’s remittance is what makes it duty-paid. |
| Shipping is not a duty event for beer, so the status does not move. The period’s remittance is what makes it duty-paid. | |||
Illustrative figures from Kettle Creek Brewing Co., a fictional producer.
Built for Canada
Thirteen provinces and territories. One system that knows the difference.
Boards, markups, deposits, eco fees and sales tax can change at every border. BrewCraft keeps them apart for each province and territory, so an order to Halifax is not priced like one to Kelowna.
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Alberta
AGLC
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British Columbia
BC Liquor Distribution Branch
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Manitoba
Liquor & Lotteries
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New Brunswick
ANBL
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Newfoundland and Labrador
NLC
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Nova Scotia
NSLC
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Northwest Territories
Territorial liquor authority
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Nunavut
Territorial liquor authority
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Ontario
LCBO
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Prince Edward Island
PEI Liquor Control Commission
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Québec
SAQ
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Saskatchewan
SLGA
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Yukon
Territorial liquor authority
Wherever they apply: board markup, container deposits, stewardship fees, sales tax — kept as four separate amounts with four separate payees, each from a dated table that cites its source.
Who it is for
Made for the way you make it.
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Brewery management software · Canada
From brew day to the board order, every litre accounted for.
Brew sheets, cellar logs, the packaging tally, the keg list and the excise spreadsheet become one record — kept as you work, not rebuilt at month end.
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Winery software · Canada
From the block to the bottle, and the club shipment after it.
Every bottle keeps its vineyard block, its vintage and its varietal composition — through the press, the barrel room and every blend — and ships to your club with the paperwork already right.
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Cidery and meadery software · Canada
Federally, cider and mead are wine. BrewCraft already knows it.
Classed as wine federally, and treated differently from one province to the next. BrewCraft models both, so you are never forced to pretend to be a brewery or a winery.
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Craft distillery software · Canada
Grain to glass, cask to case — on one record.
Mash bills, barrels, bottling runs, the tasting room and every provincial board order — traced end to end and costed, without a separate spreadsheet for each.
Why producers can trust it
Numbers you can defend, from software that will not guess.
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Never a number your accountant has to unwind
BrewCraft never invents a rate or fills a gap with last year’s figure. When a question has no published answer, it says so and shows you where — instead of producing a confident wrong number that surfaces at audit.
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Books that balance, or say exactly why not
An excise period reconciles to the litre before it closes. If it does not, you see the volume nobody has explained, instead of a tolerance band that hides it.
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Your data, walled off and yours to take
Every producer’s records are isolated at the database itself, not just in the app, and you can export all of it whenever you like — whether or not you stay.
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Your recipes stay yours
Recipe names, ingredients, volumes, costs and customers never leave your account for anyone’s analytics. Your recipe is your edge; we treat it that way.
Support
Help with the software, and help with the excise.
We reply within 24 hours on business days (Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays).
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Technical support
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Accounting and excise support
Accounting and excise support backed by government-side excise experience.
Private beta · Limited places
Bring your cellar into the private beta.
We are onboarding a limited number of Canadian breweries, wineries, cideries, meaderies and distilleries. Early partners get a named person who answers, beta pricing held for twenty-four months, and a real say in what ships next.