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Standards of fill

The miniature

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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A 50 mL bottle carries the same mandatory information as a 1.75 litre handle.

They are full products

50 mL and 100 mL are on the list of authorized standards of fill. A miniature is not a sample exempt from the rules; it is a bottle of spirits with every obligation a large one has.

Which is the whole difficulty

Brand name, class and type and alcohol content in one field of vision, plus the Government Warning at a legible size, plus name and address and net contents, on a bottle a few inches tall.

The type size relief is real but small

At 237 mL or less the warning minimum drops to 1 mm. That is the smallest the regulation ever allows, and it comes with a character density limit of 40 per inch, so the text cannot simply be condensed to fit.

What they are for

Sampling, gift sets, airline and hotel service, and in some markets single-serve retail. For a new distillery the sampling use is the one that pays, because it gets the product into hands that would not buy a full bottle.

The economics are not a smaller version

Cost per millilitre is far higher: the same closure, the same label printing setup, the same filling line time and a fraction of the volume. Pricing a miniature as a twentieth of a 1 L bottle loses money on every one.

What the catalog holds

8 containers at 50 mL and 19 at 100 mL. These are sizes a general packaging catalog genuinely carries, because they overlap with sample and travel formats from other categories.

And bitters live here too

Alcoholic bitters sit in the same small window, 30 to 120 mL, and they are the one product in this craft a very small producer can realistically start with.

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 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
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.