Cwtch Bottling

[clongster]

Hi. New to the forum and getting back into brewing with a few kits. Currently brewing the Cwtch kit which is smelling and looking great. About to bottle, going to transfer to a secondary vessel with the priming sugar and bottle using a bottling Wald attached to the tap. I have a load of swing top bottles which I am going to use to bottle however they are 750mL - just wondering how much head space I should leave in the bottles??

 

[Oneflewover]

I leave about 3 or 4 cm :thumb:

 

[IainM]

When you fill, none. Then when you remove the bottle from the wand the gap left will be perfect.

 

[clongster]

Is that still the case when using 750mL bottles??

 

[Pavros]

I do exactly as IainM says even when using 660ml and 1l plastic bottles. It has never been a problem but only use 100g of priming sugar per 20 litres of beer so perhaps I'm not carbonating too heavily.

 

[IainM]

Is that still the case when using 750mL bottles??

Yes, I've never had a problem doing it with 750ml bottles, even for quite highly carbonated beers. The bottles are taller, so the volume of liquid displaced by the bottling wand is larger.