Brewery Accountant Services — From Barrels to Balance Sheets
Are you frustrated with your brewery finances...
Running a brewery means managing ingredient costs, taproom labour, distributor relationships, excise tax obligations, and equipment investments — all at the same time. Most brewery owners are expert brewers first and financial managers second, and the accounting side often gets handled reactively rather than strategically. We work with nano breweries, taprooms, and brewpubs to take the financial side off your plate entirely — so your books are clean, your taxes are filed accurately, and you always know whether the business is actually making money.
We Handle Everything “Money” Related
From ingredient costs and payroll to excise taxes and monthly reconciliations, we manage every financial moving part of your brewery. As your dedicated brewery accountant, we handle the books, the reporting, and the compliance — so you can stay focused on brewing great beer and running a profitable taproom.
We Streamline Your Software
Most brewery accounting headaches come from disconnected systems — a POS that does not talk to the books, payroll running in a separate platform, and receipts living in a pile somewhere. We integrate your POS, payroll, and Xero accounting into a unified system so transactions flow automatically, reconciliations take minutes instead of hours, and your financial data is always current without manual data entry.
We Help You Understand Your Finances
Standard accounting reports were not built with breweries in mind. We produce customised monthly reports that show your cost of goods broken out by barrel, food and beverage margin by category, taproom revenue versus distribution revenue, and labour as a percentage of sales — the numbers that actually tell you whether each part of the business is pulling its weight. When you understand your finances at this level, pricing decisions, staffing decisions, and growth decisions all get easier.
We Find You Spare Cash
Most brewery owners leave significant money on the table every year by missing credits they are fully entitled to. We identify and claim the IRS FICA Tip Credit on tipped service staff — which can return thousands of dollars per employee annually — and the R&D tax credit on new recipe development, which the IRS formally recognizes as qualifying research activity. Between these two credits alone, brewery clients typically recover tens of thousands of dollars each year that goes directly back into the business.
Use one team for all of your brewery accounting needs
Xero setup
Receipt automation
Gusto Payroll management
Monthly reconciliations
Food/Bev Margin Analysis
FICA Tip and R&D Tax Credits
POS integration
Monthly reporting
Excise, Sales and Use Tax
Why You Should STOP! Using QuickBooks In Your Brewery
QuickBooks is built for generic small businesses. It has no native understanding of brewery-specific needs — cost per barrel, excise tax tracking, taproom versus distribution revenue splits, or ingredient cost allocation. Xero, combined with brewery-specific integrations, handles all of this natively and integrates with your POS in ways QuickBooks simply does not support. Matt walks through exactly why this matters for your brewery’s financial reporting in the video below.
