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The closure was assumed to exist

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The capacity window matched And the closure was assumed to follow A continuous thread cap was treated as a seal PET was treated as equivalent to glass A crowler was looked for And a growler was found under hair care The warning was budgeted by height alone And the separate and apart requirement was left out The band boundary was crossed without noticing Buy the closure first References

250 to 976 mL is the right range. That is the only thing about this shelf that is.

The capacity window matched

Which is how 145 containers arrived here. A 473 mL PET bottle is the right size for a beer and nothing else about it is right.

And the closure was assumed to follow

It does not. A crown finish takes a crown cap, and there is no crown cap anywhere in this catalog, nor a swing top, cork, champagne hood or can end.

A continuous thread cap was treated as a seal

It is a seal against leaking and not against pressure. A carbonated beverage behind one goes flat, pushes the cap, or both.

PET was treated as equivalent to glass

124 of the 145 containers here are PET. For a carbonated product in long storage the wall matters, and this is not a judgment the capacity field can make.

A crowler was looked for

It is a filled and seamed can, which needs a can body, a can end and a seamer. None of the three is in our catalog in any form.

And a growler was found under hair care

Which is the one product in the catalog named for a leaf in this group, indexed to six other groups and not to this one.

The warning was budgeted by height alone

The rule also sets a maximum of 25 characters per inch at this container size, which turns 283 characters into 11.32 inches of line.

And the separate and apart requirement was left out

The statement needs its own block, so the computed line length is the type and not the space it occupies.

The band boundary was crossed without noticing

237 mL or less is band one at 7.08 inches of line. One millilitre more is band two at 11.32.

Buy the closure first

For this category the closure decides everything and we do not stock one. The arithmetic on these pages is worth keeping and the shelf is not.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, checked catalog-wide on 19 October 2026. There is no crown cap, swing top, cork, champagne wire hood or can end anywhere in it. The largest closure family is 336 continuous thread polypropylene lids; the metal options are 62 metal or aluminum CT caps and 20 metal lug or twist caps. None of these retains carbonation. All five leaves in this group are carbonated products.

Computed from published values only. The statement required by 27 CFR 16.21 is 283 characters including spaces and punctuation. 27 CFR 16.22(b)(2) covers containers over 237 mL and up to 3 L, where the type must be at least 2 millimeters and the accompanying table permits at most 25 characters per inch. 283 divided by 25 is 11.32, so the statement requires at least 11.32 inches of line. On the Davis Pack Supply beer shelf, measured 19 October 2026, diameter is recorded on 124 of the 145 containers and runs 1.95 to 3.86 inches with a median of 2.71; the circumference of the median container is therefore about 8.52 inches, the smallest about 6.13 and the largest about 12.13. All 145 containers fall in band (2), none being 237 mL or less and none exceeding 3 L.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The catalog holds exactly one growler: a 946 mL amber PET growler on a 28-400 neck, flagged unavailable and full case only at a case pack of 60. It is indexed to beverages, hair care, soap and wash, oral care, kombucha and cold-pressed juice, and it is not indexed to this group, which has a growler fill leaf.

Written from 27 CFR 16.21 and 16.22 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. This catalog holds no crown cap, swing top, cork, champagne hood or can end, so it cannot close a carbonated beverage and this property says so rather than selling around it. Nothing here addresses brewer's notice, permits, formula approval, excise tax, label approval, net contents or alcohol content statements, or state law. The placement requirement in 16.21 is described rather than quoted, because no verbatim rendering of it was obtained.