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What this covers The regulation reaches the packaging directly Three things in one field of vision And a sentence you may not edit The label has to be hard to remove What this property does not cover What we stock, honestly Which does not change the answers References

Twenty-five bottle sizes are legal. Everything else is not a bottle you may sell spirits in.

What this covers

Whiskey, bourbon, rum, vodka, gin, agave spirit, liqueur and infused spirit, plus alcoholic bitters and miniatures. Ten products that share a regulator and very little else about how they are made.

The regulation reaches the packaging directly

Most of this library covers crafts where the law shapes the label and the container follows. Here the law names the sizes. A 600 mL bottle of gin is not a packaging preference; it is not an authorized standard of fill.

Three things in one field of vision

Brand name, class and type designation, and alcohol content, all viewable at once without turning the container. That is a layout constraint before it is a design decision, and it rules out some bottle shapes outright.

And a sentence you may not edit

The Government Warning is quoted word for word, with GOVERNMENT WARNING in capitals and bold and the rest not bold, at a type size set by the container volume.

The label has to be hard to remove

Affixed so that it cannot be removed without thorough application of water or other solvents. That is a specification for the adhesive, written into the regulation, and it is the only place in this library where that happens.

What this property does not cover

Federal permits, formula approval, label approval and the entirely separate state regime that governs who may sell what to whom. Those are real and they are not packaging.

What we stock, honestly

This is a rigid packaging catalog rather than a liquor bottle line. The classic 750 mL glass spirits bottle is not something we hold in depth, and the pages here say what we do hold at each legal size.

Which does not change the answers

Which sizes are legal, what the label must carry and what the adhesive has to survive are facts about the craft. What we do not stock we can source, and knowing the constraint is worth more than a long shelf.

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

27 CFR 5.63, mandatory label information. Brand name, class and type designation and alcohol content appear in the same field of vision, so that "all of the pieces of information can be viewed simultaneously without the need to turn the container". Name and address and net contents may appear anywhere on the container, and the net contents "may be blown, embossed, or molded into the container". law.cornell.edu

27 CFR 16.21, the health warning statement, required verbatim: "GOVERNMENT WARNING: (1) According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. (2) Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health problems." law.cornell.edu

27 CFR 16.22, legibility of the health warning. Minimum type size of 1 mm for containers of 237 mL or less, 2 mm above that through 3 L, and 3 mm above 3 L; "GOVERNMENT WARNING" in capitals and bold with the remainder not bold; characters not compressed, at a maximum density of 40 characters per inch at 1 mm falling to 12 at 3 mm; readily legible under ordinary conditions on a contrasting background; and labels affixed "in such manner that they cannot be removed without thorough application of water or other solvents". law.cornell.edu

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.