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Bitters and miniatures

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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Bitters are the one product here you can make at small scale and the catalog serves properly.

What alcoholic bitters are

A high-proof infusion of botanicals, dosed in drops or dashes into a drink. Tiny volumes per serving, high value per millilitre, and a product with a real enthusiast market.

The archetype

A small bottled beverage format, 30 to 120 mL, narrow neck. The same window a miniature sits in, which is why the two share a shelf here.

The dasher is the product

A bitters bottle lives or dies on its dasher top: a controlled drop or dash, no drip, and a seal that survives being inverted over a glass a hundred times.

What the catalog brings

The closure side of this shelf is 227 items including 27 spouted closures, 19 flip tops, 12 lug and twist and 3 euro droppers. The euro dropper is the closest thing here to a dasher.

Amber glass, for the same reason as everywhere else

Botanical infusions are light sensitive and the colour is part of the product. 27 glass Boston rounds sit on this shelf, and amber is the conventional and correct choice.

The regulatory position is still spirits

Alcoholic bitters are a distilled spirits product. The standards of fill, the label requirements and the Government Warning all apply, at the smallest type size the regulation allows.

Which makes the label the hard part again

A 60 mL bottle with a field of vision carrying three mandatory items and a complete Government Warning at 1 mm. Lay it out before choosing between two bottles, because it will choose for you.

Bitters sell on the label in a way spirits do not

They sit behind a bar, label out, next to a dozen competitors, and they are bought by people who read them. A bitters label is working harder per square inch than almost anything else in this craft, which is awkward given how little of it is available.

And the case is small enough to hand-fill

A production run measured in hundreds of 60 mL bottles is a weekend rather than a factory. That is the real reason this is where a small producer starts.

References

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.
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
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.