Brewery costing software · Canada
The true cost of every batch, down to the litre you lost.
Materials at the landed cost you paid, packaging, and the litres that never became product — built up as the batch moves through the cellar, and handed to your books as journals against your own chart of accounts.
Batch cost
Cost that follows the liquid, not a standard.
A batch is costed from the lots it consumed, at what they cost to land, freight, brokerage and exchange included. Beer that went down the drain still used malt, hops and tank time, so loss is a cost line of its own rather than a quiet lift to the margin of what survived.
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The true cost of every batch
Materials at landed cost, packaging, and the litres that never became product — loss is a cost, not a rounding error. Duty is recognised as part of cost when it becomes payable.
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Purchase orders that know the real cost
Order malt, hops, fruit, bottles and cans from your vendors, receive them against the PO, and cost them with freight, brokerage and exchange included — the landed cost every batch is costed from.
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Transfers that name the litres they lose
Every transfer records what left one vessel and what arrived in the next. The difference becomes a loss with a reason code, written in the same step, so nobody has to correct the number later without a record.
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Beer in the tank is on the balance sheet
Work in process is valued as inventory, because beer in a fermenter is an asset. A batch’s cost stays provisional while it is in the cellar, and becomes final once the batch closes and its vendor bills are reconciled.
Your books
BrewCraft works out the cost. Your accounting system keeps the books.
Duty, deposits, stewardship fees, markups and sales tax stay separate amounts on every line, because each has its own payee — so what your bookkeeper posts matches what is owed, and to whom.
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Journals mapped to your own chart of accounts
Cost of goods, inventory value and deposits are built as journals for your books, against the accounts you already use — mapped with you at onboarding, never guessed. Deposits stay a liability until the container comes back, never revenue.
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Kegs as beer, asset and deposit
A keg is three things at once: the beer inside it, a steel asset you own, and a deposit you owe back. BrewCraft keeps all three, so the fleet, the empties and the liability agree.
Accounting connectors
Getting the journals into your accounting system.
Connectors for QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage 50 Canada and Wave are on the integration list. In the private beta, connectors reach partners in the order partners need them — tell us which one you use when you apply, and it moves up the list. Chart-of-accounts mapping is an onboarding conversation, never a default.
Private beta · Limited places
See what your last batch cost.
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.