Hi. New to the forum and getting back into brewing with a few kits. Currently brewing the Cwtch kit which is smelling and looking great. About to bottle, going to transfer to a secondary vessel with the priming sugar and bottle using a bottling Wald attached to the tap. I have a load of swing top bottles which I am going to use to bottle however they are 750mL - just wondering how much head space I should leave in the bottles??
Cwtch Bottling
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Oneflewover
Landlord.
I leave about 3 or 4 cm :thumb:
IainM
Landlord.
When you fill, none. Then when you remove the bottle from the wand the gap left will be perfect.
I do exactly as IainM says even when using 660ml and 1l plastic bottles. It has never been a problem but only use 100g of priming sugar per 20 litres of beer so perhaps I'm not carbonating too heavily.
IainM
Landlord.
Yes, I've never had a problem doing it with 750ml bottles, even for quite highly carbonated beers. The bottles are taller, so the volume of liquid displaced by the bottling wand is larger.
