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For meaderies and wineries
Home users too.
Log your batches.
Your federal report writes itself.
You already track your must, your staggered nutrient additions, gravity readings, rackings, and what you bottled. Record it once, in one place, and your Report of Wine Premises Operations assembles from the same data — no second round of data entry, no spreadsheet that quietly stops matching the others.
Mead, fruit wine, grape wine — one event log, one report, one tax class.
Is this for you?
Three kinds of maker, one event log. The compliance half switches on only if you actually owe a federal report — so nobody is asked to look at forms they do not file.
Meaderies
Traditional, melomel, metheglin, cyser, braggot. Your TTB F 5120.17 assembles from the batches you are already logging — in honey weights, must volumes and staggered additions, not someone else's idea of a vineyard.
Home users
No permit, no federal obligation, no reports — so every compliance feature stays hidden. You get the batch log, gravity readings, and volumes that add up. Go commercial later and the history is already there.
Fruit & grape wine
Same TTB wine tax class, same F 5120.17, same report engine — so it genuinely works, not as an adaptation. Switch your producer type and the wording follows: crush, varietal, barrel lineage.
The spreadsheet tangle
Three files, three truths
A batch log, an inventory sheet, and a tab where you rebuild the TTB numbers every period. They agreed once. Nobody is certain they still do.
Reporting from memory
The form asks what you bottled and removed. You scroll back through notes trying to reconstruct a month you have already stopped thinking about.
Gallons that vanish
Racking losses, lees, a back-sweetening addition. Real volume moves and never lands anywhere you can point to when the numbers do not balance.
How it works
Three steps, and only the first one is work you were not already doing.
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Log the batch as you go
Must preparation and pitch, gravity readings, staggered nutrient additions, honey or fruit additions, racking, fining, bottling, removals. The vocabulary matches how you actually talk — must volume, honey source, honey lot, style — because the fields were written for mead, not adapted to it.
Or just say it out loud — connect an AI assistant and it logs what you tell it, without stopping to find a keyboard.
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Inventory derives itself
Bulk and bottled on-hand are computed from that log every time you look, never stored and never hand-adjusted. Bottling moves gallons from bulk to bottled in one entry. Ask for any past date and it recalculates.
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The report assembles
Every event already knows which line of TTB F 5120.17 it feeds. Pick a period and the form fills in, does its own arithmetic, and cross-checks itself against your inventory.
Log it by talking to it
Meadery or winery, connect an AI assistant to your records and say what happened. It goes in the same log, in your own units, through the same rules as the web form — while your hands are still wet.
What that sounds like
“Blackberry is down to 1.018, and I added twenty-four pounds of wildflower.”
Logged a gravity reading of 1.018 and a 24 lb honey addition to 2026‑41, both today. That puts it at about 12.4% so far. The honey is recorded by weight — tell me the volume when you have gauged it.
It can read your batches, timelines, inventory and deadlines, log and correct events, start batches, and record what is steeping. In gallons or litres, whichever you work in.
What it can never do
- Delete, archive or purge anything
- Generate or file a report with the TTB
- Change who has access, or anything about billing
You approve the connection, choose read‑only or read‑and‑write, and can disconnect it in one click. Every event it logs is marked as agent‑entered, so if a figure is ever questioned you know where it came from.
Works with the Claude app on your phone. Standard MCP, so other assistants work too.
What you get
Report of Wine Premises Operations
Part I, Sections A and B, filled per tax-class column from your event log. Bottling writes the same figure to both sections automatically, because the form requires it and one entry cannot disagree with itself.
Arithmetic you can check
Each line shows what it means and what to verify. The report reconciles its own closing figures against inventory and tells you the gallons when something does not line up.
An excise estimate that knows the trap
The report's tax-class columns break at 14% ABV; the tax rates break at 16%. A 15% mead goes in the over-14% column but is taxed at the under-16% rate. Get that backwards and you overpay on exactly the meads small producers make most. CBMA credits are applied across the calendar year.
Deadlines in one list
Report due dates, COLA action dates, formulas waiting on TTB, and bond expiry — sorted by date, with what is overdue called out.
Formula and label tracking
Mead runs into formula approval far more often than grape wine does — added botanicals, spices, or flavors beyond the honey and fruit themselves. Flag the products that need one and see which have no approval on file yet.
ABV from your readings
Computed with a formula that holds up at the 1.100+ starting gravities traditional mead uses, where the usual homebrew arithmetic understates alcohol.
More than one bonded premises
Each premises files its own F 5120.17 against its own bonded account, so every figure is scoped to the site it happened at — two cellars never read each other's gallons. The CBMA credit stays whole-producer, because that is how the statute allocates it.
Making mead at home?
Home production for personal use has no federal reporting obligation, so you get the tracking half with every compliance feature hidden — must prep and pitch, OG and FG, nutrient and honey additions, racking, bottling.
The reason it is worth using now: if you go commercial, you change one setting, add your permit, and every batch you have already logged is sitting there as compliance history. Nothing to migrate, nothing to reconstruct.
If you make fruit or grape wine
It works, and not as an adaptation. Mead, fruit wine, and grape wine all sit in the TTB wine tax class and all reconcile onto the same F 5120.17, so it is the same report engine either way — not a mead tool with wine bolted on.
What changes: the vocabulary and a few optional fields. Batches become lots, must becomes juice, and you get vintage, varietal, appellation, vineyard, harvest date, and barrel lineage instead of honey source, lot, and weight. One setting on your profile.
What does not: the event log, the derived inventory, the report engine, the excise estimate, the deadline list, and the formula and label tracking. All of it is the same code, because the federal form does not care whether the sugar came from honey or fruit.
The product is built for meaderies and the language on this page leads with mead. That is a choice about who we talk to, not a limit on what the software does.
What it costs
Home meadmaking is free for up to ten batches at a time — no card, no trial clock, and the whole app works. Paying for Home lifts that one limit and changes nothing else. Above it, pricing is by how often you file, because that is set by your own volume and not by us. Paying yearly is two months free.
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Home
Cellar records for home meadmaking. No federal reporting.
Paying lifts the batch limit and changes nothing else.
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Free
up to 10 batches at once,
then $10/mo
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Free
then $100/yr
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1 One premises
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200 gal/yr with two or more adults in the household, 100 with one |
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Annual Filer
For producers who file TTB F 5120.17 once a year.
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$35 | $350 | 2 | Never more than 20,000 gal on hand |
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Quarterly Filer
For producers who file TTB F 5120.17 every quarter.
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$90 | $900 | 5 | Never more than 60,000 gal on hand |
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Monthly Filer
For producers who file TTB F 5120.17 every month.
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$200 | $2,000 | Unlimited | No limit |
Those volume figures are not ours. They are the thresholds the law already sets — the filing cadence TTB requires at each level of production, and for Home, the limit of the production exemption itself. We did not invent a bracket to upsell you into. If your volume grows enough to change how often you file, the app tells you so from your own records, and the plan follows your obligation rather than the other way around.
Thirty days free, and no card to start. You can generate a real report inside the trial, which matters most if you file annually — otherwise your first one could be eleven months away, and you would be asked to pay before seeing the thing you came for.
Change or stop whenever. Moving between plans takes effect immediately and only the difference is charged or credited for the rest of the period. Cancel at any time and the unused part of what you have paid is refunded to your card. No notice period, no annual contract, no setup fee.
If you stop paying, your records stay readable for 90 days. You keep access to everything you have logged and can download all of it as spreadsheets at any point in that window — you are required to keep those records for three years and we are not going to stand between you and them. What stops immediately is adding anything new. We hold them for 90 days rather than years because the duty to keep them is yours, and the useful promise is that you can always take them with you.
Prices are in US dollars and exclude sales tax, which is added at checkout where it applies. Available to producers in the United States, and to home users internationally.
Where this stops
Worth knowing before you sign up, not after.
- It prepares; you file. Nothing is transmitted to TTB. You review the report, sign it, and submit it yourself.
- Verify against the current form. Every line number and mapping is checked against the published instructions, and TTB revises that form. Each line tells you what to confirm.
- Part I only. Parts III through VIII — distilled spirits, materials received, vinegar stock, nonbeverage wine — are not computed. Most small mead and fruit wine producers leave them empty; if you do not, you complete them by hand.
- Federal only, for now. No state reporting yet.
- Braggot in the beer tax class is out of scope. A honey-and-malt braggot may be classified as beer rather than wine, and beer reconciles onto the Brewer's Report of Operations, which this does not produce. Braggot you classify as wine is handled like any other mead. The app will not quietly route a beer-class event onto a wine report line.
- Excise is an estimate. Tax is filed on a different form on a different schedule, and credit eligibility depends on facts the app cannot know.
- Computed ABV is a working figure. TTB expects alcohol content to be determined by measurement, not derived from hydrometer readings.
- Not an ERP. No scheduling, purchasing, cost accounting, POS, or CRM. It is a compliance tool that happens to hold your batch data.
Log it once
Start with your next batch. By the time the period closes, the report is already assembled.
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