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Hard cider Perry Mead Braggot So two of the four usually bind and two often do not Which makes this a rule you check per batch And the commercial incentive runs the other way Falling outside part 4 is not falling outside everything So the honest advice is to settle the alcohol content first And the carbonation question cuts across all four So there are two questions per leaf, not one Our shelf works either way for ten of fourteen References

Same bottle, different answer. It depends what you put in it.

Hard cider

Named in the wine definition, and wine under this part only at 7 percent alcohol by volume and above. A great deal of commercial hard cider is deliberately below that.

Perry

Also named explicitly, alongside cider and sake. Same analysis and same threshold.

Mead

Typically well above 7 percent, which puts it inside part 4 and inside the standards of fill.

Braggot

Honey and malt together, and usually strong. Which side of the line it falls on depends on the recipe rather than on the category.

So two of the four usually bind and two often do not

Stated as usually and often, because the determination is about a particular product and a container catalog does not know an alcohol content.

Which makes this a rule you check per batch

Not per category and not per bottle. A cider at 6.5 percent and the same cider at 7.1 are in different regimes.

And the commercial incentive runs the other way

There are reasons makers aim below 7 percent that have nothing to do with bottle sizes, and those reasons are outside this property.

Falling outside part 4 is not falling outside everything

A product that is not wine under this part is labeled some other way, and nothing on these pages describes which.

So the honest advice is to settle the alcohol content first

Then look at the list. Choosing a bottle before the recipe is settled means not knowing whether the list applies.

And the carbonation question cuts across all four

A sparkling cider and a carbonated braggot need a pressure closure, and a still mead and a still perry do not. That split is independent of the alcohol content and of the standards of fill.

So there are two questions per leaf, not one

Is it in the 7 to 24 percent band, which decides whether the size list applies, and is it carbonated, which decides whether this catalog can close it at all.

Our shelf works either way for ten of fourteen

Three at the 355 mL standard and seven at the 473 mL standard, which are permitted quantities whether or not they have to be.

References

27 CFR 4.10, definition of wine. Paragraph (2): "Other alcoholic beverages not so defined, but made in the manner of wine, including sparkling and carbonated wine, wine made from condensed grape must, wine made from other agricultural products than the juice of sound, ripe grapes, imitation wine, compounds sold as wine, vermouth, cider, perry, and sake, only if for nonindustrial use and containing not less than 7 percent and not more than 24 percent of alcohol by volume." Paragraph (1) applies the same 7 to 24 percent range to wine as defined in sections 610 and 617 of the Revenue Act of 1918. law.cornell.edu

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. This group returns 105 rows: 14 containers and 91 closures, the smallest container count of any property in this library. Ten of the fourteen sit on an authorized standard of fill: three at 354.882 mL, which is the 355 mL standard, and seven at 473.176 mL, which is the 473 mL standard. Four do not: one at 709.764 mL, which misses the 700 mL standard by 9.764 mL, and three at 946.352 mL, whose nearest standard is 1 liter. 13 are glass and 1 is PET. 9 clear, 4 amber, 1 frosted clear glass. 8 glass boston rounds, 3 glass sauce bottles, 1 glass beverage bottle, 1 glass syrup bottle, 1 PET imperial bullet cosmo. Necks: 8 at 28-400, 3 at 38-400, 2 at 33-400, 1 at 28-410, all continuous thread.

Written from 27 CFR 4.72 and 4.10 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. The standards of fill regulate the quantity bottled rather than the bottle, so a non-standard container filled to a standard quantity is awkward rather than prohibited. Whether part 4 applies at all turns on the alcohol content of the product, which is not something a container catalog knows. Nothing here addresses bonded premises, formula approval, label approval, excise tax, net contents formatting, or state law. This catalog holds no crown cap, swing top, cork or champagne hood, so a sparkling product cannot be closed from it.