Bottle Yield Calculator

European / UK standard (700mL) is the most common bottle size for spirits sold in Europe. Most retail spirits use 700mL, making it the default for home distillers planning to gift or sell their product.

US standard (750mL) is the standard bottle size in North America, equivalent to a fifth of a US gallon. If your audience is primarily North American, this is the most familiar size.

Miniatures (50mL / 100mL) are popular for sampling, gifting, and events. A single litre of spirit fills 20 miniatures at 50mL each — worth calculating when planning gift sets.

Headspace refers to the air gap left at the top of the bottle. For spirits, a 2–4% headspace is standard to allow for minor expansion and to prevent pressure build-up. This reduces the usable fill volume slightly — a 700mL bottle with 4% headspace holds approximately 672mL of spirit.

Enter your total batch volume and select a bottle size. The calculator works out how many full bottles you will fill and what volume is left over. If you are bottling at a different ABV than you distilled, dilute first using the ABV Dilution Calculator, then enter the diluted volume here.

The headspace setting reduces the usable bottle volume to account for thermal expansion. Spirits expand slightly when warm and contract when cold. Bottling with zero headspace at room temperature is fine for short-term storage, but if bottles will be exposed to temperature swings a 2 to 4 percent headspace prevents leaks and pressure buildup. For a 700 mL bottle, 4 percent headspace means filling to approximately 672 mL.

The custom bottle size field accepts any value in millilitres. Use this for non-standard containers such as 375 mL half-bottles, 200 mL miniatures, or larger 1 L and 1.75 L formats.

Bottle sizes are not universal. The 700 mL bottle is the EU and UK standard for spirits and is the most common size you will encounter in home distilling. The US standard is 750 mL, which is why the same recipe produces slightly fewer bottles when bottled to US format. A 50 mL difference per bottle adds up across a batch.

For a 5 litre batch at 40% ABV, the difference between 700 mL and 750 mL bottles is one full bottle: 7 x 700 mL versus 6 x 750 mL with 500 mL remainder. If you are calculating batch economics, the bottle size you choose directly affects your per-bottle cost and yield.

Half-bottles at 375 mL are useful for tasting samples, gift sets, or smaller batches where you do not want to open a full bottle. 50 mL and 200 mL miniatures are common for competition entries and hospitality samples.

Most batches do not divide evenly into whole bottles. The remainder shown is the volume left after filling as many full bottles as possible. Options for handling the remainder: add it to your next batch before bottling to combine volumes; bottle it in a smaller container such as a 200 mL miniature; or set it aside as a tasting sample to monitor how the spirit develops over time.

If the remainder is large enough to suggest you should switch bottle sizes, the calculator makes that visible. A batch producing 6 full 700 mL bottles with 680 mL remainder would be better split into 7 x 700 mL with a 200 mL remainder, or you could use a mix of sizes to minimise waste.