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.
What it covers
Brewery management software, area by area
BrewCraft is brewery management software for Canadian craft breweries, from the brewhouse to the board order. It keeps one order book across every channel you sell through: provincial boards such as the LCBO, the SAQ, the BC Liquor Distribution Branch and AGLC; The Beer Store in Ontario; private retail; licensees; your taproom; and direct-to-consumer — each with its own listing, pricing and paperwork, and every keg and pour landing in the same order book as a board order.
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Brewery production management
Brew from versioned recipes scaled to your own brewhouse, log the brew day at the kettle, and record each transfer, dry hop and packaging step against the batch. Every move says how many litres it lost and why, so a batch still reconciles on the day its last can is filled.
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Brewery inventory management
Malt, hops, yeast, cans and labels arrive as lots carrying their certificates, and packaged beer comes off the line as dated finished lots. Stock levels come from a ledger of movements rather than a count someone typed in, and what you can sell is shown apart from what is merely on the floor.
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Brewery batch tracking and recalls
Any can or keg resolves to the malt, hop and yeast lots in its batch, through blends, and forward to each account it was delivered to. Holding a batch holds everything packaged from it, and a mock recall starts from whichever lot you suspect.
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Keg tracking and deposits
BrewCraft follows each keg through cleaning, filling, the customer and the trip back, separately from the beer it holds and the deposit it carries. A keg that stays out too long gets chased, and writing one off is always a person’s decision.
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Beer excise duty and provincial compliance
The duty status of each litre of beer is recorded when it is packaged, on a ledger that runs beside your stock, and every period closes to the litre in the return’s own terms. Board markups, deposits, stewardship fees and sales tax are held as separate amounts for separate payees. You review and file.
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Brewery costing
A batch is costed from what its ingredients landed at, its packaging and the beer lost along the way. While it sits in the fermenter it is valued as work in process, and its cost becomes final when the batch closes.
A brewer’s week, without the spreadsheet
The same work, without the re-keying.
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Before Brew sheets in a binder by the mash tun
With BrewCraft Brew day logged on a tablet at the kettle
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Before Duty worked out from a spreadsheet the night before it is due
With BrewCraft Duty status recorded at packaging and reconciled every period
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Before Kegs lost somewhere in the market
With BrewCraft A fleet, its empties and its deposits that agree
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Before Hop additions scaled from last year’s alpha acid
With BrewCraft Additions adjusted to the lot in the cold room
See it move
One batch, from tank to truck.
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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.
The rules that apply
Beer duty under the Excise Act
Beer is charged per hectolitre and assessed at packaging, on the production day — not when it ships and not when it sells. BrewCraft records the duty status of every litre at the moment it is packaged, and resolves the graduated rate across associated producers rather than per licence.
What you get
Also built for breweries.
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Recipes brought in, not retyped
Import BeerXML or BeerJSON recipes as drafts you review. Each ingredient matches a material you already stock or waits for your decision, and a figure the file leaves ambiguous is held for you to confirm, never guessed.
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Taproom and cellar door, by the pour
Tap a keg, sell it by the pour, and see the difference between what was poured and what was rung in when it blows. Every sale lands in the same order book as a board order.
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Made for the cellar floor
Big targets, few taps and gloves-on input on a tablet by the tanks, with a safety layer for confined-space entry and CO₂ zones. The record is made where the work is done.
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Measured ABV, kept apart from the prediction
The ABV you measure and the ABV the recipe predicts are separate figures, and neither overwrites the other. The measured value is the one carried onto every packaged lot.
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Every rate dated and sourced
Duty, markup, deposit and fee rates live in effective-dated tables, each traced to its published source, and the rate applied is the one in force on the day that governs.
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Switch over without retyping — or guessing
Bring your records in from a spreadsheet through the BrewCraft import template. Every row is staged and decided by a named person, nothing the file does not establish is defaulted, and each record keeps the file and row it came from.
Questions
What brewers ask us.
- How is beer excise duty different from wine excise duty in Canada?
- Beer is taxed under the Excise Act, and its duty is assessed on what you package each production day. Wine, cider and mead are taxed under the Excise Act, 2001, where duty is imposed at packaging but can wait until removal if the product goes into an excise warehouse.
- Can I see which kegs are still out with customers?
- Yes. Each keg is followed on its own, clean, filled, at a customer or back for cleaning, and one that stays out too long is chased before anyone proposes writing it off.
- Does it cover the taproom as well as distribution?
- Yes. A keg tapped in the taproom is sold by the pour, and every pour lands in the same order book as your board and licensee orders, so duty, deposits and tax follow one path.
- Can I bring in recipes from my brewing software?
- Yes, as BeerXML or BeerJSON. Each recipe arrives as a draft for you to review, with every ingredient matched to a material you stock or left for you to decide.
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 brewery 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.