Four numbers decide what you owe on every batch.
Hard cider keeps its tax class only while carbonation, ABV, fruit and flavoring all stay inside the limits at once. Miss one and the rate changes. This tracks all four from press to package, alongside the production records the numbers come from.
CiderPilot is production and compliance software for cideries. It keeps one record of every batch from the fruit you buy through pressing, fermentation, packaging and inventory, tracks the cost of each batch, and prepares the figures for your federal TTB and state excise reports, so a cidery can stop running its cellar out of spreadsheets. It is sold as a monthly subscription for the whole cidery.
Start free trial14 days, no card. Then $20 a month for your whole cidery.
Batch 2026-041, Wickson blendChecked against 27 CFR 24 Subpart P
- Carbonation
- 0.58 g/100 mLmax 0.64
- Alcohol by volume
- 6.4 %0.5 – 8.5
- Fruit
- Appleapple or pear
- Added flavoring
- Nonenone permitted
Carbonate this one to 0.71 g/100 mL and it leaves the class. You would be told before you hit the gas, not when the return is due.
One record of the run, start to finish
The same batch, followed from the fruit you bought to the cases you shipped. No re-keying between spreadsheets, and every figure on a report traceable to the measurement it came from.
Buy fruit
Vendors, loads, cost per ton
Press
Yield per variety, juice lots
Ferment
Gravity, ABV, rackings, additives
Package
Bottles, kegs, lot codes
File
5120.17 and 5000.24, prepared
One price. Everyone in the cidery.
Seasonal help included. Priced so that adding the person who actually takes the gravity readings never costs you anything.
CiderPilot prepares and reconciles your filings. You review and sign them.
- Unlimited users, no per-seat charge
- Purchasing, pressing, fermentation, packaging, inventory
- Hard cider tax class monitoring on every batch
- TTB 5120.17 and 5000.24 prepared and reconciled
- Cost per batch, through to finished cases
- Your data exportable whenever you ask