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Matching a standard of fill

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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Check the size against the list first, then check it against what exists.

475 mL has 110 containers, 945 mL has 59, 355 mL has 54, 250 mL has 21, 100 mL has 19, 200 mL has 15, 500 mL has 12, 50 mL has 8, 710 mL has 7, 750 mL has 3, and 187 mL and 350 mL have 1 each.

475 mL and 945 mL are the unexpected depth

Both authorized, both well stocked, and neither is a size the spirits trade reaches for by habit. They are the metric pint and quart carried into the list.

Why they are deep here and not elsewhere

Because a 16 oz and a 32 oz container are workhorses of every other category this catalog serves. The spirits regulation happens to authorize their metric equivalents, so a general packaging catalog is unexpectedly well matched to two legal sizes.

Which is a real opportunity for a small producer

A 475 mL bottle is lawful, available, visibly different from every 500 mL competitor, and priced against a shelf that is not used to it. That is a differentiator that costs nothing in compliance.

Capacity has to be exact

A standard of fill is a fill, not a bottle size. The container has to reliably hold the stated net contents with appropriate headspace, which is a question about the actual bottle rather than its nominal capacity.

Verify before you commit

Fill a sample to the declared volume and look at where the liquid sits. A container nominally at a legal size that fills to an awkward level is a presentation problem you will live with for the life of the product.

And the thirteen sizes with nothing behind them

3.75 L, 3 L, 2 L, 1.8 L, 1.75 L, 1.5 L, 1 L, 900 mL, 720 mL, 700 mL, 570 mL, 375 mL and 331 mL. Lawful sizes we do not currently hold a container for, which is a sourcing question rather than a closed door.

References

27 CFR 5.203(a), the standards of fill: "The following metric standards of fill are authorized for distilled spirits, whether domestically bottled or imported" — 3.75 L, 3 L, 2 L, 1.8 L, 1.75 L, 1.5 L, 1.0 L, 945 mL, 900 mL, 750 mL, 720 mL, 710 mL, 700 mL, 570 mL, 500 mL, 475 mL, 375 mL, 355 mL, 350 mL, 331 mL, 250 mL, 200 mL, 187 mL, 100 mL and 50 mL. law.cornell.edu
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 17 October 2026. The spirits shelf is 419 rows: 192 containers and 227 closures, 149 PET and 43 glass, 30 to 710 mL with a median of 118. Across the whole catalog, containers exist at 12 of the 25 authorized standards of fill, including 110 at 475 mL, 59 at 945 mL, 54 at 355 mL, 21 at 250 mL, 19 at 100 mL, 15 at 200 mL, 12 at 500 mL, 8 at 50 mL, 7 at 710 mL and 3 at 750 mL.
Written from 27 CFR 5.63, 5.203, 16.21 and 16.22, and from the catalog as it stood on 17 October 2026. Distilled spirits are federally permitted and separately regulated by every state; label approval, permits and formula approval are outside what these pages cover, and nothing here is a substitute for TTB guidance on a specific product.